It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death.
- Mark Twain
The security and the future of Jordan is hand-in-hand with the future of the Palestinians and the Israelis.
- King Abdullah Ii
When a reader enters the pages of a book of poetry, he or she enters a world where dreams transform the past into knowledge made applicable to the present, and where visions shape the present into extraordinary possibilities for the future.
- Aberjhani
Time (again, Time) like the soul, wears many faces, many bodies and climates and attitudes. The past is one face, the present a second and the future yet another.
- Aberjhani
I don't know what the future may hold, but I know who holds the future.
- Ralph Abernathy
It's clear to me now that we've got to reach out to the Arab Sunni community in particular in an effort to cause some moderate political activity to take place so they join the future of Iraq.
- John Abizaid
We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.
- Jacob Bronowski
Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.
- Dean Acheson
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
- Dean Acheson
The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.
- Lord Acton
The future, good or ill, was not forgotten, but ceased to have any power over the present. Health and hope grew strong in them, and they were content with each good day as it came, taking pleasure in every meal, and in every word and song.
- J R R Tolkien
For a while the hobbits continued to talk and think of the past journey and of the perils that lay ahead; but such was the virtue of the land of Rivendell that soon all fear and anxiety was lifted from their minds. The future, good or ill, was not forgotten, but ceased to have any power over the present. Health and hope grew strong in them, and they were content with each good day as it came, taking pleasure in every meal, and in every word and song.
- J R R Tolkien
The future toyed with us, it was up to us to try to enjoy the game. But not everyone liked the game or they weren't given the tools to play.
- Carrie Adams
Let the past hold on to itself and let the present move forward into the future.
- Douglas Adams
Such decisions will be far reaching and difficult. But you never lacked courage in the past. Your courage is now needed for the future.
- Gerry Adams
The future doesn't belong to the faint of heart. It belongs to the brave.
- Ronald Reagan
While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.
- Ronald Reagan
The future doesn't belong to the light-hearted. It belongs to the brave.
- Ronald Reagan
I do not want to go back to the past; I want to go back to the past way of facing the future.
- Ronald Reagan
...the future of the world lies with the yellow man and the brown man now that our erstwhile master, the white-skinned man, has wasted himself through buggery, cell phone usage, and drug abuse
- Aravind Adiga
Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.
- Alfred Adler
Therefore, I think that in the celebration of the 50 years of the present reign, there must be research on the changes that the country has undergone, and in the future, it could be used as a lesson for our future actions.
- Bhumibol Adulyadej
The future belongs to all who, refusing to look back at the past move ahead with the clock as it ticks.
- Odo Simon Agbo
Those who insist on having hostilities with us, kill and destroy the option of friendship with us in the future, which is unfortunate because it is clear the future belongs to Iran and that enmities will be fruitless.
- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Invest in the future because that is where you are going to spend the rest of your life.
- Habeeb Akande
As the future ripens in the past,
so the past rots in the future --
a terrible festival of dead leaves.
- Anna Akhmatova
Educate a woman and you educate her family. Educate a girl and you change the future.
- Rania Al Abdullah
Teaching the layperson (divulgare) is not distorting (tergiversare) the subject, but educating the public; and it is our duty as scientists to educate without distorting the essence of the scientific knowledge attained by humanity. The future of our society depends upon this premise.
- Felix Alba Juez
The past and the future are not a collection of instants shared by all space, but a collection of events that correspond to a possible relation of causal order with the present event.
- Felix Alba Juez
But they wanted you. Time is not something you give back. The very next moment may be answer to your prayer. To deny that is to deny the most important part of the future.
- Mitch Albom
You had many more years," he said.
"I didn't want them."
"But they wanted you. Time is not something you give back. The very next moment may be an answer to
your prayer. To deny that is to deny the most important part of the future."
"What's that?"
"Hope.
- Mitch Albom
He thought about his son's stone flying across the yard, the youthful idea that you could toss away the future if
you didn't like itand he realized, suddenly, what he needed to do.
- Mitch Albom
God only rarely reveals the future. When he does so, it is for one reason: it's a future that was written so as to be altered.
- Paulo Coelho
Our contradictions. We are in such a hurry to grow up, and then we long for our lost childhood. We make ourselves ill earning money, and then spend all our money on getting well again. We think so much about the future that we neglect the present, and thus experience neither the present nor the future. We live as if we were never going to die, and die as if we had never lived.
- Paulo Coelho
Past and future exist only in our memory. The present moment though, is outside of time, it's Eternity. It isn;t what you did in the past that will affect the present. It's what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.
- Paulo Coelho
I needed to choose between the one thing that really filled m thoughts-my love for that woman-and losing my freedom and all the choices that the future promised me. To be honest, the decision was easy.
-Lukas Jessen-Petersen
- Paulo Coelho
The present moment, though, is outside of time, it's Eternity. In India they use the word "karma" for lack of any better term. But it's a concept that's rarely given a proper explanation. It isn't what you did in the past that will affect the present. It's what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.
- Paulo Coelho
The past and the future become unimportant. There is only that moment, and the incredible certainty that everything under the sun has been written by one hand only. It is the hand that evokes love, and creates a twin soul for every person in the world. Without such love, one's dreams would have no meaning.
- Paulo Coelho
The future would end up finding out the truth about the past.
- Paulo Coelho
It isn't what you did in the past that will affect the present. It's what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.
- Paulo Coelho
Everything which is done in the present, affects the future by consequence, and the past by redemption.
- Paulo Coelho
The secret is here in the present. If you pat attention to the present, you can improve upon it. And, if you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better, Forget about the future and live each day according to the teachings, confident that God loves his children. Each day, in itself, brings with it an eternity.
- Paulo Coelho
Do not concern yourself with what you know or what you do not know. Do not think about the past or the future, merely allow God's hands to write the surprises of the present on each new day.
- Paulo Coelho
It's what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.
- Paulo Coelho
The future may unfold in indelible strokes, but it doesn't mean we have to read the same lines over and over.
- Jodi Picoult
He began to trace a pattern on the table with the nail of his thumb. She kept saying she wanted to keep things exactly the way they were, and that she wished she could stop everything from changing. She got really nervous, like, talking about the future. She once told me that she could see herself now, and she could also see the kind of life she wanted to have - kids, husband, suburbs, you know - but she couldn't figure out how to get from point A to point B.
- Jodi Picoult
In the space between yes and no, there's a lifetime. It's the difference between the path you walk and the one you leave behind; it's the gap between who you thought you could be and who you really are; its the legroom for the lies you'll tell yourself in the future.
- Jodi Picoult
If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.
- Madeleine Albright
To envision the future; you must forget the past and make the present a memory
- Jeremy Aldana
I'm substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House and Congress are at odds over what the future direction should be. They're sort of playing a game and NASA is the shuttlecock that they're hitting back and forth.
- Neil Armstrong
My contract is just for this year, but I have an option for next year. It is not signed at this moment, but I am only concentrating on this year. I don't know exactly what I will do in the future.
- Jean Alesi
I think I will have a lot of opportunities in the future.
- Jean Alesi
At the halfway point of any drunken night, there is a moment when an Indian realizes he cannot turn back toward tradition and that he has no map to guide him toward the future.
- Sherman Alexie
The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be.
- Paul Valery
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
- Paul Valery
for you, I am even willing to suffer. Whatever pain happens to us in the future, I accept it already, just for the pleasure of being with you now. Let's enjoy this time. It's marvelous.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
Maybe this is just some stupid romantic South American idea, but I need you to understand-darling, for you, I am even willing to suffer. Whatever pain happens to us in the future, I accept it already, just for the pleasure of being with you now. Let's enjoy this time. It's marvelous. Felipe-Eat, Pray, Love
- Elizabeth Gilbert
When we get to the future, I'll determine the future.
- George Allen Sr
Forget the past - the future will give you plenty to worry about.
- George Allen Sr
I think of the future all the time. All my life I've chased dreams of what could be. For the first time in my life, I've actually caught one. I'll give you one day at a time, Claire. But remember, I'm thousands of days ahead already.
- Sarah Addison Allen
The great secret about goals and visions is not the future they describe but the change in the present they engender.
- David Allen
The value of goals is not in the future they describe, but the change in perception of reality they foster.
- David Allen
In some ways, September 11, 2001, seems a long time ago. Yet we have done so much in only a few years, and we will continue to do so in the future, to prevent such attacks on America.
- George Allen
We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives.
- Woody Allen
In the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.
- Andy Warhol
I was a peripheral visionary. I could see the future, but only way off to the side.
- Steven Wright
Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.
- Maxim Gorky
Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future
- Maxim Gorky
As for what, exactly, was said about the future, all I can say is that, speaking as indirectly as we were, transferred between us was only a feeling, or a shift in feeling, something like the sense of solid ground underfoot after walking for days or even months on spongy bog, a shift that I would be hard pressed, both then and now, but especially now, all these years later, to put into words.
- Nicole Krauss
But Valentine, why despair, why always paint the future in such sombre hues?" Maximilien asked.
"Because, my friend, I judge it by the past.
- Alexandre Dumas
In this world, all--men, women, and kings--must live for the present. We can only live for the future for God
- Alexandre Dumas
Until the day when God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words,'Wait and hope.' Chapter 117
- Alexandre Dumas
Live and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget that, until the day comes when God will deign to reveal the future of man, all human wisdom is contained in these words: Wait and hope! (509).
- Alexandre Dumas
...until the day God deigns to reveal the future to man, the sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words: wait and hope.
- Alexandre Dumas
It is the way of weakened minds to see everything through a black cloud. The soul forms its own horizons; your soul is darkened, and consequently the sky of the future appears stormy and unpromising
- Alexandre Dumas
The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.
- Stephen Ambrose
The future could go this way, that way. The future's futures have never looked so rocky. Don't put money on it. Take my advice and stick to the present. It's the real stuff, the only stuff, it's all there is, the present, the panting present.
- Martin Amis
I love books. I'm giving some hard copies of the Sacerdos Mysteries book away because I think there's something so brilliant about them. The digitisation trend is the future but people will still want the feel and smell of real books.
- Elizabeth Amisu
The dead do walk and haunt and crawl into your bed at night. Ghosts sneak into your head when you're not looking. Stars line up and volcanoes birth out bits of glass that foretell the future. Poison berries make girls stronger, but sometimes kill them. If you howl at the moon and swear on your blood, anything you desire will be yours. Be careful what you wish for. There's always a catch.
- Laurie Halse Anderson
History is an angel being blown backwards into the future
- Laurie Anderson
One species on the planet, and one species only, has reached the point of being able to have an impact on the evolutionary fortunes of all other species and upon the functioning of all ecosystems. We also have, in a way that is not true for any other species, a relationship to the planet as a whole and to the future. We live with all life.
- Walter Truett Anderson
They've got to tell us what is necessary to ensure the future health of the river system.
- John Anderson
I have a great belief in the future of my people and my country.
- Marian Anderson
It looks like the future's really bright.
- Michael P Anderson
So much American science fiction is parochial -- not as true now as it was years ago, but the assumption is one culture in the future, more or less like ours, and with the same ideals, the same notions of how to do things, just bigger and flashier technology. Well, you know darn well it doesn't work that way..
- Poul Anderson
As far as the future for the Showtime episodes that have already aired, we are sold into syndication so we'll be appearing primarily on the Fox syndicated networks and then eventually the SCI FI Channel. So, we'll be around for a while.
- Richard Dean Anderson
I think of the past and the future as well as the present to determine where I am, and I move on while thinking of these things.
- Tadao Ando
If I can create some space that people haven't experienced before and if it stays with them or gives them a dream for the future, that's the kind of structure I seek to create.
- Tadao Ando
I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future.
- Tadao Ando
One Child:
I hope it will be said we taught them to stand tall & proud, even in the face of history & the future was made new & whole for us all, one child at a time.
- Brian Andreas
My grandma used to plant tomato seedlings in tin cans from tomato sauce & puree & crushed tomatoes she got from the Italian restaurant by her house, but she always soaked the labels off first. I don't want them to be anxious about the future, she said. It's not healthy.
- Brian Andreas
Side by Side:
We sat side by side in the morning light & looked out at the future together.
- Brian Andreas
It was inconsiderate, she thought, how blandly people mentioned the future in the sick rooms. Phrases like next summer were always popping out; people made such assumptions about their own continuity.
- Larry Mcmurtry
through prayer we can reach into the future and with loving hands touch those beyond our reach.
- Brother Andrew
The future is keeping you out of the present time.
- Van Morrison
Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future. Jobs, family, employers, and friends can exist one day without any one of us, and if our egos permit us to confess, they could exist eternally in our absence. Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us.
- Maya Angelou
Each of us has the right and the responsibility to assess the roads which lie ahead, and those over which we have traveled, and if the future road looms ominous or unpromising, and the roads back uninviting, then we need to gather our resolve and, carrying only the necessary baggage, step off that road into another direction. If the new choice is also unpalatable, without embarrassment, we must be ready to change that as well.
- Maya Angelou
Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
- Maya Angelou
When I look into the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes.
- Oprah Winfrey
Times of terror and the deepest misery may arrive, but if there is to be any happiness in this misery it can only be a spiritual happiness, related to the past in the rescue of the culture of early ages and to the future in a serene and indefatigable championship of the spirit in a time which would otherwise completely swallow up the material.
- Hermann Hesse
... the river is everywhere at once, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the rapids, in the sea, in the mountains, everywhere at once, and that there is only the present time for it, not the shadow of the past, not the shadow of the future.
- Hermann Hesse
He promises a lamp unto our feet, not a crystal ball into the future.
- Max Lucado
So stop looking at the past and all the things you can't change. They're done and over with. Now is the time for you to look to the future, grasp it by the hand, and decide where you want to go. I told you once before, and I'll say it againthis is your life, Chase. Only you can decide what it's going to be like. Don't let outside forces dictate it for you.
- Lacey Weatherford
We need to think of the future and the planet we are going to leave to our children and their children.
- Kofi Annan
The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin.
- David Antin
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
- Thomas Jefferson
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his (sic)patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease
- Thomas Jefferson
I am neither a sociologist nor a politician. All I can do is imagine for myself what the future will be like.
- Michelangelo Antonioni
Without poets, without artists... everything would fall a part into chaos. There would be no more seasons, no more civilizations, no more thought, no more humanity, no more life even; and impotent darkness would reign forever. Poets and artists together determine the features of their age, and the future meekly conforms to their edit.
- Guillaume Apollinaire
I could see us doing solo material in the future.
- Nicole Appleton
Is it alright to believe in the future where everyone can live in happiness?
- Hiromu Arakawa
Risks are a measure of people. People who won't take them are trying to preserve what they have. People who do take them often end up having more.
Some risks have a future, and some people call them wrong. But being right may be like walking backwards proving where you've been.
Being wrong isn't in the future, or in the past.
Being wrong isn't anywhere but being here.
Best place to be, eh?
- Paul Arden
Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.
- Hannah Arendt
The possible redemption from the predicament of irreversibilityof being unable to undo what one has doneis the faculty of forgiving. The remedy for unpredictability, for the chaotic uncertainty of the future, is contained in the faculty to make and keep promises. Both faculties depend upon plurality, on the presence and acting of others, for no man can forgive himself and no one can be bound by a promise made only to himself.
- Hannah Arendt
I thought about the future, the oceans and continents he would cross, far away from everyone who knew and loved him. Far outside the sphere of his mothers prayers. Among the women of the future, there was one who would know his secrets and bear his children, and witness the changes the years worked on him. And it wouldnt be me.
-Liberty Jones
- Lisa Kleypas
But I intend to enjoy the weeks I have left with you to the fullest. Because I know from my study of the philosophy of time, whatever is going to happen in the future is already unavoidable.
- Meg Cabot
Guys don't like it when you get too heavy, I've noticed. They especially don't like it when you try to talk too much about the future. They're like little woodland animals. Everything's well and good when you're just doling out the nuts and everything's cool. But the minute you bring out the net to try to catch them - even if it's for their own good, like to help them escape a forest fire - all hell breaks loose.
- Meg Cabot
The current wisdom now is that if the three networks are covering the news the same way the difference is the anchor people. I think that won't be true in the future.
- Roone Arledge
School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect. But nobody's perfect, so why practice?
- Billie Joe Armstrong
Imagination paints a charming view of the future, conveniently adapted to the demands of our current emotion.
- John Armstrong
And we... right from moment one, we were always kinda up against the wall a little bit when it came to the future of the show. There were always rumors.
- Will Arnett
Foreknowledge of the future makes it possible to manipulate both enemies and supporters.
- Raymond Aron
We who came here saw what was happening. This was far more than a war in a faraway place. This was a moral imperative, a terrible vision of the future.
- Paddy Ashdown
And what if in the future we're at war again, or we still haven't elected a non-white or non-male president, or the Rolling Stones are still dragging their tired old butts on stage? That would depress me way too much.
- Jay Asher
You can't stop the future
You can't rewind the past
The only way to learn the secret
...is to press play.
- Jay Asher
I see myself more as an ambassador of the game. And I hope to bring chess to a higher level in the United States. Making bigger tournaments, more interesting events. Making it a respectable profession for young people to be able to pursue in the future.
- Maurice Ashley
The cosmical importance of this conclusion is profound and the possibilities it opens for the future very remarkable, greater in fact than any suggested before by science in the whole history of the human race.
- Francis William Aston
People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly clearly. Periodic famines are due to too many people living on land that can't sustain them.
- David Attenborough
In a society that worships love, freedom and beauty, dance is sacred,It is a paryer for the future, a remembrance of the past and a joyful exclamation of thanks for the present.
- Amelia Atwater Rhodes
We yearned for the future. How did we learn it, that talent for insatiability?
- Margaret Atwood
Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide going out, revealing whatever's been thrown away and sunk: broken bottles, old gloves, rusting pop cans, nibbled fishbodies, bones. This is the kind of thing you see if you sit in the darkness with open eyes, not knowing the future.
- Margaret Atwood
I sink down into my body as into a swamp, fenland, where only I know the footing. Treacherous ground, my own territory. I become the earth I set my ear against, for rumors of the future.
- Margaret Atwood
He doesn't know which is worse, a past he can't regain or a present that will destroy him if he looks at it too clearly. Then there's the future. Sheer vertigo.
- Margaret Atwood
But if you happen to be a man, sometime in the future, and you've made it this far, please remember: you will never be subject to the temptation or feeling you must forgive, a man, as a woman. It's difficult to resist, believe me. But remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withhold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest.
- Margaret Atwood
For the children with their greedy little mouths represent the future, which like time itself will devour all now alive.
- Margaret Atwood
Some of the best things are done by those with nowhere to turn, by those who don't have time, by those who truly understand the word helpless. They dispense no thought with the calculation of risk and profit, they take no thought for the future, they're forced to spearpoint into the present tense. - Margaret Atwood (The Blind Assassin)
- Margaret Atwood
And it was this image that was stamped on the hearts and minds of all who were present that day. Of Froi of the Exiles holding the future of Lumatere in his hands.
- Melina Marchetta
Laziness acknowledges the relation of the present to the past but ignores its relation to the future; impatience acknowledge its relation to the future but ignores its relation to the past; neither the lazy nor the impatient man, that is, accepts the present instant in its full reality and so cannot love his neighbour completely.
- W H Auden
Science Fiction is not just about the future of space ships travelling to other planets, it is fiction based on science and I am using science as my basis for my fiction, but it's the science of prehistory - palaeontology and archaeology - rather than astronomy or physics.
- Jean M Auel
To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.
- Red Auerbach
How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were always present and never moved on to become the past, it would not be time, but eternity.
- Saint Augustine Of Hippo
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
- Marcus Aurelius
Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, "This is a misfortune" but "To bear this worthily is good fortune."
- Marcus Aurelius
No one can lose either the past or the future - how could anyone be deprived of what he does not possess?... It is only the present moment of which either stands to be deprived: and if this is all he has, he cannot lose what he does not have.
- Marcus Aurelius
Unhappy am I because this has happened to me.- Not so, but happy am I, though this has happened to me, because I continue free from pain, neither crushed by the present nor fearing the future.
- Marcus Aurelius
Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.
- Marcus Aurelius
The future is greatly different than your life now, the actions that you take must also be greatly different. You cannot do the same thing and get something different.
- Steve Maraboli
...it saddens me that she has to grow up and make friends with humans. I hear the future coming for her. Stomp, stomp, stomp.
- Catherine Austen
Thoughts are real', he said. 'Words are real. Everything human is real, and sometimes we know things before they happen, even if we aren't aware of it. We live in the present, but the future is inside us at every moment. Maybe that's what writing is all about, Sid. Not recording events from the past, but making things happen in the future'.
- Paul Auster
The fact is if we do our job right, if we keep worrying not about polls but about the jobs of the American people, about their health care, about their ability to educate their kids, stay in their homes and own their homes, send their kids to college, the basic pillars of a middle-class life, if we keep worrying about the future and building a stronger future for this country, these things will take care of themselves.
- David Axelrod
The optimist sees the future as a rabbit sees the oncoming truck - getting bigger, not closer.
- Steve Aylett
Painkillers are the drugs of the future
- Steve Aylett
There is also work to do in the evolution of a stable family life and values, and in ensuring that the Nigerian family is built on core values that will form the bedrock of the future society. We must showcase the ideals of family life and be models of family values.
- Ibrahim Babangida
We can start working with time, if you wish, till you can fly the past and the future. And then you will be ready to begin the most difficult, the most powerful, the most fun of all. You will be ready to BEGIN to fly up and know the meaning of kindness and of love
- Richard Bach
Adolescence represents an inner emotional upheaval, a struggle between the eternal human wish to cling to the past and the equally powerful wish to get on with the future.
- Louise J Kaplan
He's waiting for yu, young queen.'
Shocked, I stared at Seoras. 'Heath?'
The Warrior's look was wise and understanding - his voice gentle. 'Aye, yur Heath probably does await you somewhere in the future, but it is of your Guardian I speak.
- P C Cast
Awake and listen, you that are lonely! From the future come winds with stealthy wings, and to subtle ears good tidings are proclaimed.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
You stream almost too violently, fountain of delight! And often you empty the cup again, by wanting to fill it!
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And if a friend does you wrong, then say: "I forgive you what you have done to me; that you have done it to yourself, however-how could I forgive that!"
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Sex: for free hearts, innocent and free, the garden happiness of the earth, an overflowing of thanks to the present from all the future.
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- Friedrich Nietzsche
All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The future influences the present just as much as the past.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
I think and hope and believe that the Japanese government and the people of Japan will be happy and content with the progress of justice in this case and that it will not become a great issue in the future.
- Howard H Baker Jr
Measured by any standard, white or black, Washington must be regarded today as one of the great men of this country: and in the future he will be so honored.
- Ray Stannard Baker
It is strange the way trauma deadens curiosity. To suffer cruelty in excess is to be delivered from care. The human heart sets aside its questions when the future is too capricious. This is the irony of tribulation.
To know the world will never be so bad.
- R Scott Bakker
The future will be determined in part by happenings that it is impossible to foresee; it will also be influenced by trends that are now existent and observable.
- Emily Greene Balch
There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.
- James A Baldwin
The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.
- James A Baldwin
The love of glory is like the bridge that Satan built across Chaos to pass from Hell to Paradise: glory links the past with the future across a bottomless abyss. Nothing to my son, except my name!
- Napoleon Bonaparte
We have annexed the future into our present as merely one of those manifold alternatives open to us
- J G Ballard
I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.
- J G Ballard
Perhaps the future belongs to magic, and it's we women who control magic.
- J G Ballard
Mi bella Princesa, your funny little dwarf will never dance again. It is a pity, for he is so ugly that he might have made the King smile.'
'But why will he not dance again?' asked the Infanta, laughing.
'Because his heart is broken,' answered the Chamberlain.
And the Infanta frowned, and her dainty rose-leaf lips curled in pretty disdain. 'For the future let those who come to play with me have no hearts,' she cried, and she ran out into the garden.
- Oscar Wilde
For the future let those who come to play with me have no hearts,' she cried, and she ran out into the garden.
- Oscar Wilde
The past could always be annihilated; regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable. There were passions in him that would find their terrible outlet, dreams that would make the shadow of their evil real.
- Oscar Wilde
For people sometimes believed that it was safer to live with complaints,
was necessary to cooperate with grief, was all right to become an accomplice in self-ambush...
Take heart to flat out decide to be well and stride into the future sane and whole.
- Toni Cade Bambara
Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
- Lester Bangs
In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody's got to live a real life so we have something to make a movie about.
- Cameron Crowe
Don't worry, Opie - I've seen the future, and it all works out reasonably well..
- Cameron Crowe
For the cause that lacks assistance, the wrong that needs resistance, for the future in the distance, and the good that I can do.
- George Linnaeus Banks
I think the future stopped looking American when you think back to Blade Runner and Neuromancer, when it started to look more Japanese.
- Iain Banks
...we have to surpass ourselves every day, make every day undying. Climb our own personal Everest and do it in such a way that every step is a little bit of eternity.
That's what the future is for: to build the present, with real plans, made by living people.
- Muriel Barbery
You want to do your job well so that people in the future say, 'OK, he's not bad, let's hire him.'
- Javier Bardem
Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
- Daniel Barenboim
O little one,
My little one,
Come with me,
Your life is done.
Forget the future,
Forget the past.
Life is over:
Breathe your last.
- Clive Barker
Your successful past will block your visions of the future.
- Joel A Barker
The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future.
- Joel A Barker
We're building a great company, and we're very excited about the future of the company.
- Jim Barksdale
After all, it's the future of business communication that we're looking toward.
- Jim Barksdale
She was nervous about the future; it made her indelicate. She was one of the most unimportantly wicked women of her time --because she could not let her time alone, and yet could never be a part of it. She wanted to be the reason for everything and so was the cause of nothing. She had the fluency of tongue and action meted out by divine providence to those who cannot think for themselves. She was the master of the over-sweet phrase, the over-tight embrace.
- Djuna Barnes
And just like you, I will die at some unknown date in the future. I just come equipped with a few extra powers. (Sebastian)
I see. I'm a Toyota. You're a Lamborghini.(Channon)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
I can't undo the past. But in the future, I will gladly lay my life down for you, brother. (Styxx)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
The past is history written in stone that can't be altered. The future is transitory and never guaranteed. Today is the only thing you can alter for certain. Make the most of it. - Drux Cruel
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
You don't deal with anything, Savitar. You sit out here in the sun, catching waves, spewing bullshit philosophy you don't follow. (Acheron)
You're right. I gave up trying to affect my destiny a long time ago. But that's because every time I tried to change the future, I fucked it up worse. Eventually the rat gets tired of pulling the lever and sits down in his corner to lick his wounds. So if you're ready to hang it up, come sit on the beach with me. (Savitar)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
She lacks our ability to see the future. Her powers are destruction, not prophecy. I'm sure had she known he would one day threaten you, she'd have killed him herself. And now you know why I take pity on no one. All compassion does is come back and bite the fat of your arse. (Savitar)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
My father used to say that life is what you make it. Today is the first day of the rest of your life. You can't change the past, but the future isn't set in stone. You can effect a change there. Move forward not with hatred or love. Move forward with purpose. (Simone)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
I am old enough to know that time passing is just a trick, a convenience. Everything is always there, still unfolding, still happening. The past, the present, and the future, in the noggin eternally, like brushes, combs and ribbons in a handbag.
- Sebastian Barry
The Internet: transforming society and shaping the future through chat.
- Dave Barry
As soon as someone dies, frenzied construction of the future (shifting furniture, etc.): futuromania.
- Roland Barthes
We are comfortable with the fact that we cannot know personally what happened in the world before we were born, yet we are uncomfortable with the notion that we will stop engaging with time at some point in the future.
- John Barton
A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.
- Bernard Baruch
Indeed, the direction of the future is only there in order to elude us.
- Georges Bataille
We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the future.
- Gregory Bateson
- Mark Twain
The security and the future of Jordan is hand-in-hand with the future of the Palestinians and the Israelis.
- King Abdullah Ii
When a reader enters the pages of a book of poetry, he or she enters a world where dreams transform the past into knowledge made applicable to the present, and where visions shape the present into extraordinary possibilities for the future.
- Aberjhani
Time (again, Time) like the soul, wears many faces, many bodies and climates and attitudes. The past is one face, the present a second and the future yet another.
- Aberjhani
I don't know what the future may hold, but I know who holds the future.
- Ralph Abernathy
It's clear to me now that we've got to reach out to the Arab Sunni community in particular in an effort to cause some moderate political activity to take place so they join the future of Iraq.
- John Abizaid
We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.
- Jacob Bronowski
Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.
- Dean Acheson
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
- Dean Acheson
The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.
- Lord Acton
The future, good or ill, was not forgotten, but ceased to have any power over the present. Health and hope grew strong in them, and they were content with each good day as it came, taking pleasure in every meal, and in every word and song.
- J R R Tolkien
For a while the hobbits continued to talk and think of the past journey and of the perils that lay ahead; but such was the virtue of the land of Rivendell that soon all fear and anxiety was lifted from their minds. The future, good or ill, was not forgotten, but ceased to have any power over the present. Health and hope grew strong in them, and they were content with each good day as it came, taking pleasure in every meal, and in every word and song.
- J R R Tolkien
The future toyed with us, it was up to us to try to enjoy the game. But not everyone liked the game or they weren't given the tools to play.
- Carrie Adams
Let the past hold on to itself and let the present move forward into the future.
- Douglas Adams
Such decisions will be far reaching and difficult. But you never lacked courage in the past. Your courage is now needed for the future.
- Gerry Adams
The future doesn't belong to the faint of heart. It belongs to the brave.
- Ronald Reagan
While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.
- Ronald Reagan
The future doesn't belong to the light-hearted. It belongs to the brave.
- Ronald Reagan
I do not want to go back to the past; I want to go back to the past way of facing the future.
- Ronald Reagan
...the future of the world lies with the yellow man and the brown man now that our erstwhile master, the white-skinned man, has wasted himself through buggery, cell phone usage, and drug abuse
- Aravind Adiga
Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.
- Alfred Adler
Therefore, I think that in the celebration of the 50 years of the present reign, there must be research on the changes that the country has undergone, and in the future, it could be used as a lesson for our future actions.
- Bhumibol Adulyadej
The future belongs to all who, refusing to look back at the past move ahead with the clock as it ticks.
- Odo Simon Agbo
Those who insist on having hostilities with us, kill and destroy the option of friendship with us in the future, which is unfortunate because it is clear the future belongs to Iran and that enmities will be fruitless.
- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Invest in the future because that is where you are going to spend the rest of your life.
- Habeeb Akande
As the future ripens in the past,
so the past rots in the future --
a terrible festival of dead leaves.
- Anna Akhmatova
Educate a woman and you educate her family. Educate a girl and you change the future.
- Rania Al Abdullah
Teaching the layperson (divulgare) is not distorting (tergiversare) the subject, but educating the public; and it is our duty as scientists to educate without distorting the essence of the scientific knowledge attained by humanity. The future of our society depends upon this premise.
- Felix Alba Juez
The past and the future are not a collection of instants shared by all space, but a collection of events that correspond to a possible relation of causal order with the present event.
- Felix Alba Juez
But they wanted you. Time is not something you give back. The very next moment may be answer to your prayer. To deny that is to deny the most important part of the future.
- Mitch Albom
You had many more years," he said.
"I didn't want them."
"But they wanted you. Time is not something you give back. The very next moment may be an answer to
your prayer. To deny that is to deny the most important part of the future."
"What's that?"
"Hope.
- Mitch Albom
He thought about his son's stone flying across the yard, the youthful idea that you could toss away the future if
you didn't like itand he realized, suddenly, what he needed to do.
- Mitch Albom
God only rarely reveals the future. When he does so, it is for one reason: it's a future that was written so as to be altered.
- Paulo Coelho
Our contradictions. We are in such a hurry to grow up, and then we long for our lost childhood. We make ourselves ill earning money, and then spend all our money on getting well again. We think so much about the future that we neglect the present, and thus experience neither the present nor the future. We live as if we were never going to die, and die as if we had never lived.
- Paulo Coelho
Past and future exist only in our memory. The present moment though, is outside of time, it's Eternity. It isn;t what you did in the past that will affect the present. It's what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.
- Paulo Coelho
I needed to choose between the one thing that really filled m thoughts-my love for that woman-and losing my freedom and all the choices that the future promised me. To be honest, the decision was easy.
-Lukas Jessen-Petersen
- Paulo Coelho
The present moment, though, is outside of time, it's Eternity. In India they use the word "karma" for lack of any better term. But it's a concept that's rarely given a proper explanation. It isn't what you did in the past that will affect the present. It's what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.
- Paulo Coelho
The past and the future become unimportant. There is only that moment, and the incredible certainty that everything under the sun has been written by one hand only. It is the hand that evokes love, and creates a twin soul for every person in the world. Without such love, one's dreams would have no meaning.
- Paulo Coelho
The future would end up finding out the truth about the past.
- Paulo Coelho
It isn't what you did in the past that will affect the present. It's what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.
- Paulo Coelho
Everything which is done in the present, affects the future by consequence, and the past by redemption.
- Paulo Coelho
The secret is here in the present. If you pat attention to the present, you can improve upon it. And, if you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better, Forget about the future and live each day according to the teachings, confident that God loves his children. Each day, in itself, brings with it an eternity.
- Paulo Coelho
Do not concern yourself with what you know or what you do not know. Do not think about the past or the future, merely allow God's hands to write the surprises of the present on each new day.
- Paulo Coelho
It's what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.
- Paulo Coelho
The future may unfold in indelible strokes, but it doesn't mean we have to read the same lines over and over.
- Jodi Picoult
He began to trace a pattern on the table with the nail of his thumb. She kept saying she wanted to keep things exactly the way they were, and that she wished she could stop everything from changing. She got really nervous, like, talking about the future. She once told me that she could see herself now, and she could also see the kind of life she wanted to have - kids, husband, suburbs, you know - but she couldn't figure out how to get from point A to point B.
- Jodi Picoult
In the space between yes and no, there's a lifetime. It's the difference between the path you walk and the one you leave behind; it's the gap between who you thought you could be and who you really are; its the legroom for the lies you'll tell yourself in the future.
- Jodi Picoult
If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.
- Madeleine Albright
To envision the future; you must forget the past and make the present a memory
- Jeremy Aldana
I'm substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House and Congress are at odds over what the future direction should be. They're sort of playing a game and NASA is the shuttlecock that they're hitting back and forth.
- Neil Armstrong
My contract is just for this year, but I have an option for next year. It is not signed at this moment, but I am only concentrating on this year. I don't know exactly what I will do in the future.
- Jean Alesi
I think I will have a lot of opportunities in the future.
- Jean Alesi
At the halfway point of any drunken night, there is a moment when an Indian realizes he cannot turn back toward tradition and that he has no map to guide him toward the future.
- Sherman Alexie
The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be.
- Paul Valery
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
- Paul Valery
for you, I am even willing to suffer. Whatever pain happens to us in the future, I accept it already, just for the pleasure of being with you now. Let's enjoy this time. It's marvelous.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
Maybe this is just some stupid romantic South American idea, but I need you to understand-darling, for you, I am even willing to suffer. Whatever pain happens to us in the future, I accept it already, just for the pleasure of being with you now. Let's enjoy this time. It's marvelous. Felipe-Eat, Pray, Love
- Elizabeth Gilbert
When we get to the future, I'll determine the future.
- George Allen Sr
Forget the past - the future will give you plenty to worry about.
- George Allen Sr
I think of the future all the time. All my life I've chased dreams of what could be. For the first time in my life, I've actually caught one. I'll give you one day at a time, Claire. But remember, I'm thousands of days ahead already.
- Sarah Addison Allen
The great secret about goals and visions is not the future they describe but the change in the present they engender.
- David Allen
The value of goals is not in the future they describe, but the change in perception of reality they foster.
- David Allen
In some ways, September 11, 2001, seems a long time ago. Yet we have done so much in only a few years, and we will continue to do so in the future, to prevent such attacks on America.
- George Allen
We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives.
- Woody Allen
In the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.
- Andy Warhol
I was a peripheral visionary. I could see the future, but only way off to the side.
- Steven Wright
Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.
- Maxim Gorky
Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future
- Maxim Gorky
As for what, exactly, was said about the future, all I can say is that, speaking as indirectly as we were, transferred between us was only a feeling, or a shift in feeling, something like the sense of solid ground underfoot after walking for days or even months on spongy bog, a shift that I would be hard pressed, both then and now, but especially now, all these years later, to put into words.
- Nicole Krauss
But Valentine, why despair, why always paint the future in such sombre hues?" Maximilien asked.
"Because, my friend, I judge it by the past.
- Alexandre Dumas
In this world, all--men, women, and kings--must live for the present. We can only live for the future for God
- Alexandre Dumas
Until the day when God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words,'Wait and hope.' Chapter 117
- Alexandre Dumas
Live and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget that, until the day comes when God will deign to reveal the future of man, all human wisdom is contained in these words: Wait and hope! (509).
- Alexandre Dumas
...until the day God deigns to reveal the future to man, the sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words: wait and hope.
- Alexandre Dumas
It is the way of weakened minds to see everything through a black cloud. The soul forms its own horizons; your soul is darkened, and consequently the sky of the future appears stormy and unpromising
- Alexandre Dumas
The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.
- Stephen Ambrose
The future could go this way, that way. The future's futures have never looked so rocky. Don't put money on it. Take my advice and stick to the present. It's the real stuff, the only stuff, it's all there is, the present, the panting present.
- Martin Amis
I love books. I'm giving some hard copies of the Sacerdos Mysteries book away because I think there's something so brilliant about them. The digitisation trend is the future but people will still want the feel and smell of real books.
- Elizabeth Amisu
The dead do walk and haunt and crawl into your bed at night. Ghosts sneak into your head when you're not looking. Stars line up and volcanoes birth out bits of glass that foretell the future. Poison berries make girls stronger, but sometimes kill them. If you howl at the moon and swear on your blood, anything you desire will be yours. Be careful what you wish for. There's always a catch.
- Laurie Halse Anderson
History is an angel being blown backwards into the future
- Laurie Anderson
One species on the planet, and one species only, has reached the point of being able to have an impact on the evolutionary fortunes of all other species and upon the functioning of all ecosystems. We also have, in a way that is not true for any other species, a relationship to the planet as a whole and to the future. We live with all life.
- Walter Truett Anderson
They've got to tell us what is necessary to ensure the future health of the river system.
- John Anderson
I have a great belief in the future of my people and my country.
- Marian Anderson
It looks like the future's really bright.
- Michael P Anderson
So much American science fiction is parochial -- not as true now as it was years ago, but the assumption is one culture in the future, more or less like ours, and with the same ideals, the same notions of how to do things, just bigger and flashier technology. Well, you know darn well it doesn't work that way..
- Poul Anderson
As far as the future for the Showtime episodes that have already aired, we are sold into syndication so we'll be appearing primarily on the Fox syndicated networks and then eventually the SCI FI Channel. So, we'll be around for a while.
- Richard Dean Anderson
I think of the past and the future as well as the present to determine where I am, and I move on while thinking of these things.
- Tadao Ando
If I can create some space that people haven't experienced before and if it stays with them or gives them a dream for the future, that's the kind of structure I seek to create.
- Tadao Ando
I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future.
- Tadao Ando
One Child:
I hope it will be said we taught them to stand tall & proud, even in the face of history & the future was made new & whole for us all, one child at a time.
- Brian Andreas
My grandma used to plant tomato seedlings in tin cans from tomato sauce & puree & crushed tomatoes she got from the Italian restaurant by her house, but she always soaked the labels off first. I don't want them to be anxious about the future, she said. It's not healthy.
- Brian Andreas
Side by Side:
We sat side by side in the morning light & looked out at the future together.
- Brian Andreas
It was inconsiderate, she thought, how blandly people mentioned the future in the sick rooms. Phrases like next summer were always popping out; people made such assumptions about their own continuity.
- Larry Mcmurtry
through prayer we can reach into the future and with loving hands touch those beyond our reach.
- Brother Andrew
The future is keeping you out of the present time.
- Van Morrison
Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future. Jobs, family, employers, and friends can exist one day without any one of us, and if our egos permit us to confess, they could exist eternally in our absence. Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us.
- Maya Angelou
Each of us has the right and the responsibility to assess the roads which lie ahead, and those over which we have traveled, and if the future road looms ominous or unpromising, and the roads back uninviting, then we need to gather our resolve and, carrying only the necessary baggage, step off that road into another direction. If the new choice is also unpalatable, without embarrassment, we must be ready to change that as well.
- Maya Angelou
Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
- Maya Angelou
When I look into the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes.
- Oprah Winfrey
Times of terror and the deepest misery may arrive, but if there is to be any happiness in this misery it can only be a spiritual happiness, related to the past in the rescue of the culture of early ages and to the future in a serene and indefatigable championship of the spirit in a time which would otherwise completely swallow up the material.
- Hermann Hesse
... the river is everywhere at once, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the rapids, in the sea, in the mountains, everywhere at once, and that there is only the present time for it, not the shadow of the past, not the shadow of the future.
- Hermann Hesse
He promises a lamp unto our feet, not a crystal ball into the future.
- Max Lucado
So stop looking at the past and all the things you can't change. They're done and over with. Now is the time for you to look to the future, grasp it by the hand, and decide where you want to go. I told you once before, and I'll say it againthis is your life, Chase. Only you can decide what it's going to be like. Don't let outside forces dictate it for you.
- Lacey Weatherford
We need to think of the future and the planet we are going to leave to our children and their children.
- Kofi Annan
The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin.
- David Antin
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
- Thomas Jefferson
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his (sic)patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease
- Thomas Jefferson
I am neither a sociologist nor a politician. All I can do is imagine for myself what the future will be like.
- Michelangelo Antonioni
Without poets, without artists... everything would fall a part into chaos. There would be no more seasons, no more civilizations, no more thought, no more humanity, no more life even; and impotent darkness would reign forever. Poets and artists together determine the features of their age, and the future meekly conforms to their edit.
- Guillaume Apollinaire
I could see us doing solo material in the future.
- Nicole Appleton
Is it alright to believe in the future where everyone can live in happiness?
- Hiromu Arakawa
Risks are a measure of people. People who won't take them are trying to preserve what they have. People who do take them often end up having more.
Some risks have a future, and some people call them wrong. But being right may be like walking backwards proving where you've been.
Being wrong isn't in the future, or in the past.
Being wrong isn't anywhere but being here.
Best place to be, eh?
- Paul Arden
Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.
- Hannah Arendt
The possible redemption from the predicament of irreversibilityof being unable to undo what one has doneis the faculty of forgiving. The remedy for unpredictability, for the chaotic uncertainty of the future, is contained in the faculty to make and keep promises. Both faculties depend upon plurality, on the presence and acting of others, for no man can forgive himself and no one can be bound by a promise made only to himself.
- Hannah Arendt
I thought about the future, the oceans and continents he would cross, far away from everyone who knew and loved him. Far outside the sphere of his mothers prayers. Among the women of the future, there was one who would know his secrets and bear his children, and witness the changes the years worked on him. And it wouldnt be me.
-Liberty Jones
- Lisa Kleypas
But I intend to enjoy the weeks I have left with you to the fullest. Because I know from my study of the philosophy of time, whatever is going to happen in the future is already unavoidable.
- Meg Cabot
Guys don't like it when you get too heavy, I've noticed. They especially don't like it when you try to talk too much about the future. They're like little woodland animals. Everything's well and good when you're just doling out the nuts and everything's cool. But the minute you bring out the net to try to catch them - even if it's for their own good, like to help them escape a forest fire - all hell breaks loose.
- Meg Cabot
The current wisdom now is that if the three networks are covering the news the same way the difference is the anchor people. I think that won't be true in the future.
- Roone Arledge
School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect. But nobody's perfect, so why practice?
- Billie Joe Armstrong
Imagination paints a charming view of the future, conveniently adapted to the demands of our current emotion.
- John Armstrong
And we... right from moment one, we were always kinda up against the wall a little bit when it came to the future of the show. There were always rumors.
- Will Arnett
Foreknowledge of the future makes it possible to manipulate both enemies and supporters.
- Raymond Aron
We who came here saw what was happening. This was far more than a war in a faraway place. This was a moral imperative, a terrible vision of the future.
- Paddy Ashdown
And what if in the future we're at war again, or we still haven't elected a non-white or non-male president, or the Rolling Stones are still dragging their tired old butts on stage? That would depress me way too much.
- Jay Asher
You can't stop the future
You can't rewind the past
The only way to learn the secret
...is to press play.
- Jay Asher
I see myself more as an ambassador of the game. And I hope to bring chess to a higher level in the United States. Making bigger tournaments, more interesting events. Making it a respectable profession for young people to be able to pursue in the future.
- Maurice Ashley
The cosmical importance of this conclusion is profound and the possibilities it opens for the future very remarkable, greater in fact than any suggested before by science in the whole history of the human race.
- Francis William Aston
People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly clearly. Periodic famines are due to too many people living on land that can't sustain them.
- David Attenborough
In a society that worships love, freedom and beauty, dance is sacred,It is a paryer for the future, a remembrance of the past and a joyful exclamation of thanks for the present.
- Amelia Atwater Rhodes
We yearned for the future. How did we learn it, that talent for insatiability?
- Margaret Atwood
Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide going out, revealing whatever's been thrown away and sunk: broken bottles, old gloves, rusting pop cans, nibbled fishbodies, bones. This is the kind of thing you see if you sit in the darkness with open eyes, not knowing the future.
- Margaret Atwood
I sink down into my body as into a swamp, fenland, where only I know the footing. Treacherous ground, my own territory. I become the earth I set my ear against, for rumors of the future.
- Margaret Atwood
He doesn't know which is worse, a past he can't regain or a present that will destroy him if he looks at it too clearly. Then there's the future. Sheer vertigo.
- Margaret Atwood
But if you happen to be a man, sometime in the future, and you've made it this far, please remember: you will never be subject to the temptation or feeling you must forgive, a man, as a woman. It's difficult to resist, believe me. But remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withhold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest.
- Margaret Atwood
For the children with their greedy little mouths represent the future, which like time itself will devour all now alive.
- Margaret Atwood
Some of the best things are done by those with nowhere to turn, by those who don't have time, by those who truly understand the word helpless. They dispense no thought with the calculation of risk and profit, they take no thought for the future, they're forced to spearpoint into the present tense. - Margaret Atwood (The Blind Assassin)
- Margaret Atwood
And it was this image that was stamped on the hearts and minds of all who were present that day. Of Froi of the Exiles holding the future of Lumatere in his hands.
- Melina Marchetta
Laziness acknowledges the relation of the present to the past but ignores its relation to the future; impatience acknowledge its relation to the future but ignores its relation to the past; neither the lazy nor the impatient man, that is, accepts the present instant in its full reality and so cannot love his neighbour completely.
- W H Auden
Science Fiction is not just about the future of space ships travelling to other planets, it is fiction based on science and I am using science as my basis for my fiction, but it's the science of prehistory - palaeontology and archaeology - rather than astronomy or physics.
- Jean M Auel
To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.
- Red Auerbach
How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were always present and never moved on to become the past, it would not be time, but eternity.
- Saint Augustine Of Hippo
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
- Marcus Aurelius
Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, "This is a misfortune" but "To bear this worthily is good fortune."
- Marcus Aurelius
No one can lose either the past or the future - how could anyone be deprived of what he does not possess?... It is only the present moment of which either stands to be deprived: and if this is all he has, he cannot lose what he does not have.
- Marcus Aurelius
Unhappy am I because this has happened to me.- Not so, but happy am I, though this has happened to me, because I continue free from pain, neither crushed by the present nor fearing the future.
- Marcus Aurelius
Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.
- Marcus Aurelius
The future is greatly different than your life now, the actions that you take must also be greatly different. You cannot do the same thing and get something different.
- Steve Maraboli
...it saddens me that she has to grow up and make friends with humans. I hear the future coming for her. Stomp, stomp, stomp.
- Catherine Austen
Thoughts are real', he said. 'Words are real. Everything human is real, and sometimes we know things before they happen, even if we aren't aware of it. We live in the present, but the future is inside us at every moment. Maybe that's what writing is all about, Sid. Not recording events from the past, but making things happen in the future'.
- Paul Auster
The fact is if we do our job right, if we keep worrying not about polls but about the jobs of the American people, about their health care, about their ability to educate their kids, stay in their homes and own their homes, send their kids to college, the basic pillars of a middle-class life, if we keep worrying about the future and building a stronger future for this country, these things will take care of themselves.
- David Axelrod
The optimist sees the future as a rabbit sees the oncoming truck - getting bigger, not closer.
- Steve Aylett
Painkillers are the drugs of the future
- Steve Aylett
There is also work to do in the evolution of a stable family life and values, and in ensuring that the Nigerian family is built on core values that will form the bedrock of the future society. We must showcase the ideals of family life and be models of family values.
- Ibrahim Babangida
We can start working with time, if you wish, till you can fly the past and the future. And then you will be ready to begin the most difficult, the most powerful, the most fun of all. You will be ready to BEGIN to fly up and know the meaning of kindness and of love
- Richard Bach
Adolescence represents an inner emotional upheaval, a struggle between the eternal human wish to cling to the past and the equally powerful wish to get on with the future.
- Louise J Kaplan
He's waiting for yu, young queen.'
Shocked, I stared at Seoras. 'Heath?'
The Warrior's look was wise and understanding - his voice gentle. 'Aye, yur Heath probably does await you somewhere in the future, but it is of your Guardian I speak.
- P C Cast
Awake and listen, you that are lonely! From the future come winds with stealthy wings, and to subtle ears good tidings are proclaimed.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
You stream almost too violently, fountain of delight! And often you empty the cup again, by wanting to fill it!
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And if a friend does you wrong, then say: "I forgive you what you have done to me; that you have done it to yourself, however-how could I forgive that!"
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Sex: for free hearts, innocent and free, the garden happiness of the earth, an overflowing of thanks to the present from all the future.
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- Friedrich Nietzsche
All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The future influences the present just as much as the past.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
I think and hope and believe that the Japanese government and the people of Japan will be happy and content with the progress of justice in this case and that it will not become a great issue in the future.
- Howard H Baker Jr
Measured by any standard, white or black, Washington must be regarded today as one of the great men of this country: and in the future he will be so honored.
- Ray Stannard Baker
It is strange the way trauma deadens curiosity. To suffer cruelty in excess is to be delivered from care. The human heart sets aside its questions when the future is too capricious. This is the irony of tribulation.
To know the world will never be so bad.
- R Scott Bakker
The future will be determined in part by happenings that it is impossible to foresee; it will also be influenced by trends that are now existent and observable.
- Emily Greene Balch
There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.
- James A Baldwin
The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.
- James A Baldwin
The love of glory is like the bridge that Satan built across Chaos to pass from Hell to Paradise: glory links the past with the future across a bottomless abyss. Nothing to my son, except my name!
- Napoleon Bonaparte
We have annexed the future into our present as merely one of those manifold alternatives open to us
- J G Ballard
I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.
- J G Ballard
Perhaps the future belongs to magic, and it's we women who control magic.
- J G Ballard
Mi bella Princesa, your funny little dwarf will never dance again. It is a pity, for he is so ugly that he might have made the King smile.'
'But why will he not dance again?' asked the Infanta, laughing.
'Because his heart is broken,' answered the Chamberlain.
And the Infanta frowned, and her dainty rose-leaf lips curled in pretty disdain. 'For the future let those who come to play with me have no hearts,' she cried, and she ran out into the garden.
- Oscar Wilde
For the future let those who come to play with me have no hearts,' she cried, and she ran out into the garden.
- Oscar Wilde
The past could always be annihilated; regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable. There were passions in him that would find their terrible outlet, dreams that would make the shadow of their evil real.
- Oscar Wilde
For people sometimes believed that it was safer to live with complaints,
was necessary to cooperate with grief, was all right to become an accomplice in self-ambush...
Take heart to flat out decide to be well and stride into the future sane and whole.
- Toni Cade Bambara
Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
- Lester Bangs
In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody's got to live a real life so we have something to make a movie about.
- Cameron Crowe
Don't worry, Opie - I've seen the future, and it all works out reasonably well..
- Cameron Crowe
For the cause that lacks assistance, the wrong that needs resistance, for the future in the distance, and the good that I can do.
- George Linnaeus Banks
I think the future stopped looking American when you think back to Blade Runner and Neuromancer, when it started to look more Japanese.
- Iain Banks
...we have to surpass ourselves every day, make every day undying. Climb our own personal Everest and do it in such a way that every step is a little bit of eternity.
That's what the future is for: to build the present, with real plans, made by living people.
- Muriel Barbery
You want to do your job well so that people in the future say, 'OK, he's not bad, let's hire him.'
- Javier Bardem
Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
- Daniel Barenboim
O little one,
My little one,
Come with me,
Your life is done.
Forget the future,
Forget the past.
Life is over:
Breathe your last.
- Clive Barker
Your successful past will block your visions of the future.
- Joel A Barker
The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future.
- Joel A Barker
We're building a great company, and we're very excited about the future of the company.
- Jim Barksdale
After all, it's the future of business communication that we're looking toward.
- Jim Barksdale
She was nervous about the future; it made her indelicate. She was one of the most unimportantly wicked women of her time --because she could not let her time alone, and yet could never be a part of it. She wanted to be the reason for everything and so was the cause of nothing. She had the fluency of tongue and action meted out by divine providence to those who cannot think for themselves. She was the master of the over-sweet phrase, the over-tight embrace.
- Djuna Barnes
And just like you, I will die at some unknown date in the future. I just come equipped with a few extra powers. (Sebastian)
I see. I'm a Toyota. You're a Lamborghini.(Channon)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
I can't undo the past. But in the future, I will gladly lay my life down for you, brother. (Styxx)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
The past is history written in stone that can't be altered. The future is transitory and never guaranteed. Today is the only thing you can alter for certain. Make the most of it. - Drux Cruel
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
You don't deal with anything, Savitar. You sit out here in the sun, catching waves, spewing bullshit philosophy you don't follow. (Acheron)
You're right. I gave up trying to affect my destiny a long time ago. But that's because every time I tried to change the future, I fucked it up worse. Eventually the rat gets tired of pulling the lever and sits down in his corner to lick his wounds. So if you're ready to hang it up, come sit on the beach with me. (Savitar)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
She lacks our ability to see the future. Her powers are destruction, not prophecy. I'm sure had she known he would one day threaten you, she'd have killed him herself. And now you know why I take pity on no one. All compassion does is come back and bite the fat of your arse. (Savitar)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
My father used to say that life is what you make it. Today is the first day of the rest of your life. You can't change the past, but the future isn't set in stone. You can effect a change there. Move forward not with hatred or love. Move forward with purpose. (Simone)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
I am old enough to know that time passing is just a trick, a convenience. Everything is always there, still unfolding, still happening. The past, the present, and the future, in the noggin eternally, like brushes, combs and ribbons in a handbag.
- Sebastian Barry
The Internet: transforming society and shaping the future through chat.
- Dave Barry
As soon as someone dies, frenzied construction of the future (shifting furniture, etc.): futuromania.
- Roland Barthes
We are comfortable with the fact that we cannot know personally what happened in the world before we were born, yet we are uncomfortable with the notion that we will stop engaging with time at some point in the future.
- John Barton
A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.
- Bernard Baruch
Indeed, the direction of the future is only there in order to elude us.
- Georges Bataille
We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the future.
- Gregory Bateson
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