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Quotes About Future

The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable.
~ Oscar Wilde
A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and, seeing a better country, sets sail. Progress is the realisation of Utopias.
~ Oscar Wilde
The only difference between saints and sinners is that every saint has a past while every sinner has a future.
~ Oscar Wilde
As for omens, there is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.
~ Oscar Wilde
Nothing should be out of the reach of hope. Life is a hope.
~ Oscar Wilde
it seemed to me that he had learned not only to destroy what was left behind, but also to poison what was to come.
~ Colum McCann
If your plan is for one year plant rice. If your plan is for ten years plant trees. If your plan is for one hundred years educate children.
~ Confucius
A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present?
~ Confucius
A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present? If he reach the age of forty or fifty, and has not made himself heard of, then indeed he will not be worth being regarded with respect.
~ Confucius
Think of tomorrow, the past can't be mended.
~ Confucius
Omul care nu se gândeste sau nu prevede lucrurile îndepartate are necazuri aproape
~ Confucius
The past and the future are both part of a single continuum
~ Connie Willis
He was a prisoner to the calendar, he realised, as we all were. He thought in little boxes that were to be ticked off and filled with things to do. Almost every day he thought back to what he had been doing ten years ago, twenty years ago, further. He lived in the past, by his diary. He was a history man, his head full of dead leaves. It was a form of reassurance, he knew. There were too many roads into the future and he didn't like not having a map for it. (Wait)
~ Conrad Williams
People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didnt believe in that. Tomorrow wasnt getting ready for them. It didnt even know they were there.
~ Cormac McCarthy
He looked into those blue eyes like a man seeking some vision of the increate future of the universe.
~ Cormac McCarthy
The world of our fathers resides within us. Ten thousand generations and more. A form without a history has no power to perpetuate itself. What has no past can have no future.
~ Cormac McCarthy
He'd stop and lean on the cart and the boy would go on and then stop and look back and he would raise his weeping eyes and see him standing there in the road looking back at him from some unimaginable future, glowing in that waste like a tabernacle.
~ Cormac McCarthy
I think people regret what they didnt do more than what they did. I think everbody has things they failed to do. You cant see what is coming, Bobby. And if you could it is no guarantee you'd make the right choice even then. I believe in God's design.
~ Cormac McCarthy
The man could hear him playing. A formless music for the age to come. Or perhaps the last music on earth called up from out of the ashes of its ruin.
~ Cormac McCarthy
She asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said dead.
~ Cormac McCarthy
People were always getting ready for tomorrow.
~ Cormac McCarthy
There's too much shit still down the road that I got to deal with. It aint goin to end here.
~ Cormac McCarthy
As pessoas estavam sempre a preparar-se para o futuro. Eu não acreditava nisso. O futuro não se estava a preparar para elas. O futuro nem sabia que elas existiam.
~ Cormac McCarthy
In the end, she had said, there will be nothing that cannot be simulated. And this will be the final abridgment of privilege. This is the world to come. Not some other. The only alternate is the surprise in those antic shapes burned into the concrete.
~ Cormac McCarthy