Quotes About Future

La vieja conocía el futuro porque conocía el pasado, y su familiaridad con las cosas de la vida le permitían comprender y, por lo tanto, aceptar sin rencor, la eterna tragedia de la naturaleza: es menester que la carne perezca para que la carne pueda vivir.

We know—more from the faces immortalized on a handful of photographs than from the words of survivors—that the women and men who experienced that moment in Hiroshima believed they had encountered the beginning of the end of the world. There will never be enough future to prove them wrong.

God loves us, not such as we are by our merit, but such as we will be by his own gift]

And it was no shame to her that she so dreamed. It was no shame that she called before her, one by one, those who had asked her to cross with them the threshold (of marriage) and those who might still ask her. It was no shame that, while her heart said always, "no," she still waited - waited for one whom she knew not, but only knew that she would know him when he came. And it was no shame to her that, even while this was so, she saw herself in the years to come a wife and mother.

The only difference between the East and the West seems to be that you have ancestors and we are going to be ancestors.

I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States.

Someday science will supply all of us with washboard abs.

The earth's about five million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?

I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?

I think I'll be moving on tomorrow," she said. "What for? Got anything better to do?" She shook her head. "No. But this isn't my bag. You know that. These cars don't make any noise." "Someday all cars won't make noise," he said.

But at midnight — strange, mystic hour, when the veil between the frail present and the eternal future grows thin — then came the messenger.

God only knows the future,' said St.Clare. 'I am braver than I was because I have lost all; and he who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.

The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: What are we going to do in five years' time? A completely different attitude.

If younger people see older people who haven't planned ahead and have to rely on charity, the young will be more likely to provide for the future. Today when someone plans poorly, the only consequence people see is a demand for more government.

you're wrong, you will suffer for it. If you're right, you will find happiness. You have to be the one to decide. "Who are you to know?" It's your future at stake. You have to know. Freedom comes only from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue. — David Seabury

I'm sure that there are reasonable people that had some reasonable projections about the future of New Orleans, but none of those could include not trying to rebuild the city and make it better than it was before.

Zelfs als morgen de hemel op aarde werd gevestigd, dan nog zou het, door alles wat er gebeurd was in het verleden, niet de hemel kunnen zijn

Al het oude was eens nieuw, en al het nieuwe zal eens oud zijn. Het alleroudste is het heden, want er is nooit iets anders geweest dan het heden. Nooit heeft iemand in het verleden geleefd, en in de toekomst leeft ook niemand.

Besides, whoever keeps the future in front of him and the past at his back is doing something else that's hard to imagine. For the image implies that events somehow already exist in the future, reach the present at a determined moment, and finally come to rest in the past. But nothing exists in the future; it is empty; one might die at any minute. Therefore such a person has his face toward the void, whereas it is the past behind him that is visible, stored in the memory.

I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it - not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.

We can never tell what is in store for us.

Jerry had trouble imagining himself in his thirties, much less his seventies. What would 2024 look like? The politics would have to be better than today's. They couldn't very well be any worse!

courage to continue is sureness of success, Create your own opportunities. Create your own future. DARE it, don't dream it. DETERMINATION - learning how to overcome the obstacles that life throws at you

I don't know how many good books I still have in me I hope there are another four or five.