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Quotes About Future

For China, yesterday poisons today and robs tomorrow.
~ Gordon G. Chang
The students who surrendered the square on the morning of June 4 could not begin to imagine, in those sad days of 1989, that their ideas would eventually prevail. They set into motion a chain of events that will one day lead to a free and prosperous China, one better than they could, at that time, imagine—perhaps one better than we can imagine today.
~ Gordon G. Chang
Our common future will be determined by the struggle between the killers and the peacemakers.
~ Gordon Livingston
Most of the heartbreak that life contains is a result of ignoring the reality that past behavior is the most reliable predictor of future behavior.
~ Gordon Livingston
They believed that an organization is only as good as its commitment to training leaders for the future.
~ Gordon MacDonald
there is no future—only the choice between the present as they want it or nothing at all. He and those like him lose nothing in their own terms by trading a future that is valueless for them for a here and now that sees them get what they want. But the real price of what they want is an end to all dreams—including
~ Gordon R. Dickson
the contest that's now shaping up can only be won by those who believe in the future if they work and struggle as one single people.
~ Gordon R. Dickson
Teetering on life's balance, between the long past and the unknown yet less infinite future, knowing it's only going to tip in one direction, and more quickly than you ever expected — that sense of vertigo, fear, excitement, and uncertainty, is middle age.
~ Terri Guillemets
You know that Arizona is going to really be understood and get somewhere some day.
~ Will Rogers, 1932
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
~ Graham Greene
I brought children into this dark world because it needed the light that only a child can bring.
~ Liz Armbruster (d.2009)
Children are one third of our population and all of our future.
~ Author unknown, 1970s
Worry is wasting today's time cluttering up tomorrow's opportunities with yesterday's troubles.
~ Author Unknown
Emily – dashing – perched phoenix Soul aflame – hidden – Past Alit the Future
~ Terri Guillemets
There must be a tomorrow, because my life overflows today.
~ Lois Chartrand
God! what a light has passed away from earth Since my last look!... How beautiful the yesterday that stood Over me like a rainbow! I am alone. The past is past. I see the future stretch All dark and barren as a rainy sea.
~ Alexander Smith, A Life-Drama
History is the shadow of time; life its substance, and they bear the same relation to one another, that the dim twilight does to the up-risen and visible sun. It is in vain to talk to men of throwing their minds into the past, or into the future, you may as well bid them leap out of themselves, or beyond their shadow. The present is all in all to us.
~ Horace Smith
Here's to Hope! — the child of Care, And pretty sister of Despair, Here's hoping that Hope's children shan't Take after their Grandma or Aunt!
~ Oliver Herford, c.1903
Who thinks, at night, that morn will ever be? Who knows, far out upon the central sea, That anywhere is land? And yet, a shore Has set behind us, and will rise before: A past foretells a future...
~ Bayard Taylor, "First Evening"
Nature is now. Humans are a tangled mess of past, present, and future.
~ Terri Guillemets
Sensation invested itself in form and color and radiance, and what his imagination dared, it objectified in some sublimated and magic way. Past, present, and future mingled; and he went on oscillating across the broad, warm world, through
~ Jack London
I love to think of the success of Berande," he said; "but that is secondary.  It is subordinate to the dearest wish, which is that some day you will share Berande with me in a completer way than that of mere business partnership.  It is for you, some day, when you are ready, to be my wife.
~ Jack London
Kimdi, neydi, Martin asla öÄŸrenemedi. GeçmiÅŸi olmayan; geleceÄŸi önündeki mezardan, bugünüyse içindeki canh?raÅŸ hayat ateÅŸinden ibaret bir adamd?.
~ Jack London
No os habéis preocupado jamás por saber lo que será de vosotros cuando los mismos consorcios se fusionen en el trust de los trusts, en una organización a un tiempo social, económica y política.
~ Jack London