future

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
b769edb	The future was in our own hands. If we wanted a world where such things were possible, it was for us to make it.	world future choice change	Juliet Marillier
089fe34	Past and future were out of her hands. One was finished and couldn't be undone. The other was beyond imagining.	future past	Francine Rivers
1be380d	Yesterday, here in the middle of the City, I saw a wolf turn into a Russian ex-gymnast and hand over a business card that read YOUR OWN PERSONAL TRANSHUMAN SECURITY WHORE! STERILIZED INNARDS! ACCEPTS ALL CREDIT CARDS to a large man who had trained attack cancers on his face and possessed seventy-five indentured Komodo Dragons instead of legs. And they had sex. Right in front of me. And six of the Komodo Dragons spat napalm on my new shoes.	sex future dystopia cyberpunk science-fiction	Warren Ellis
1ae57e7	Dwelling on the past only defeated her chances for changing the future.	future past	Francine Rivers
a362d3b	The living stayed home, haunting the world of the dead like ghosts.	future life science-fiction	Neal Stephenson
85b7d10	How grand, to be a Doctor of whatever and to weigh up and decide people's future.	future	Sebastian Faulks
96935b9	The stress of it all. How the hell are we expected at the age of sixteen (and seventeen, in your case) to decide what we want to do for the rest of our lives? Right now all I want to do is get of school, not start planning to get into another one. You're lucky you've always known what you want to do.	future education stress school	Cecelia Ahern
3a91b1d	Fool, there is no sense in trying to play that game with the past. Here is where we are today, and we can only make our moves from here.	future past move sense today play regret	Robin Hobb
16506a8	Where would the shout of love begin, if not from the summit of sacrifice? Oh my brothers, this is the junction between those who think and those who suffer; this barricade is made neither of paving stones, nor of timbers, nor of iron; it is made of two mounds, a mound of ideas and a mound of sorrows. Here misery encounters the ideal. Here day embraces night, and says: I will die with you and you will be born again with me. From the heavy embrace of all desolations springs faith. Sufferings bring their agony here, and ideas their immortality. This agony and immortality will mingle and make up our death. Brothers, whoever dies here dies in the radiance of the future, and we are entering a grave illuminated by the dawn.	future death love happy-martyrs revolution	Victor Hugo
7d1e54c	The future is a blank wall on which every man can write his own name as large as he likes; the past I find already sovered with scribbles, such as Plato, Isaiah, Shakespeare, Michael Angelo, Napoleon. I can make the future as narrow as myself; the past is obliged to be as broad and turbulant as humanity.	future past tradition	G.K. Chesterton
87bba46	...it is the fear of the past; a fear not merely of the evil in the past, but of the good in the past also. The brain breaks down under the unbearable virtue of mankind. There have been so many flaming faiths that we cannot hold; so many harsh heroisms that we cannot imitate; so many great efforts of monumental building or of military glory which seems to us at once sublime and pathetic. The future is a refuge from the fierce competition of our forefathers.	future past forefathers	G.K. Chesterton
598cf1e	On January 18, 1915, six months into the First World War, as all Europe was convulsed by killing and dying, Virginia Woolf wrote in her journal, 'The future is dark, which is on the whole, the best thing the future can be, I think.' Dark, she seems to be saying, as in inscrutable, not as in terrible. We often mistake the one for the other. Or we transform the future's unknowability into something certain, the fulfillment of all our dread, the place beyond which there is no way forward. Be again and again, far stranger things happen than the end of the world.	future unknowability	Rebecca Solnit
b16c2d8	...a great future behind him, already	writer future old waste	Angela Carter
6c9576d	Mothers burning inside the risen suns of their children.	future parenthood	Karen Russell
4cd59ff	I am supposing, or perhaps only hoping, that our future may be found in the past's fugitive moments of compassion rather than in its solid centuries of warfare.	future hope	Howard Zinn
62acf07	This past year - if you'd have tried, you'd have seen even more clearly the futility of trying to change the world without the efforts of everybody else on Earth. You saw and smelled and drank the evidence of six billion disasters that can only be mended by six billion people. \|\| A thousands years ago this wouldn't have been the case. If human beings had suddenly vanished a thousand years ago, the planet would have healed overnight with no damage. Maybe a few lumps where the pyramids sand. One hundred years ago - or even fifty years ago - the world would have healed itself just fine in the absence of people. But not now. We crossed the line. the only thing that can keep the planet turning smoothly now is human free will forged into effort. Nothing else. That's why the world has seemed so large in the past few years, and time so screwy. It's because Earth is now totally ours.	nature future collective-action environment humans	Douglas Coupland
bf07aa0	We need to make progress. Otherwise we're waiting for news in a world where there is no longer any news.	progress future	Ray Bradbury
bf81d56	Oftentimes she wondered what had happened to super 8. Sure, it made perfect sense that nobody wanted the hassle of spending money on a three-minute cartridge of film and threading it through a projector, but though digital cameras were convenient and cheap, Mandy didn't care. Super 8 had integrity, it wasn't just nostalgia, it was art, it was history, it was a little recording medium that somehow possessed the power to evoke lost memories, to turn back time, and there was something dazzling about waiting excitedly for a reel of film to come back in its yellow and red Kodak envelope, eating buttered popcorn while the projector paraded life's best moments, and capturing something beautiful in only three minutes.	photography integrity future future-shock home-movies kodak projector retro super-8 vintage popcorn digital lonliness movies nostalgia	Rebecca McNutt
5cc3ad9	Welcome to the future, she thought, surveying all this wordage and tat. All our tragedies and triumphs, our lives and deaths, our shames and joys are just stuffing for your emptiness.	future life triumphs tragedies	Iain M. Banks
4a4a799	Is there a notion of hope (and of our responsibility to the future) that could be shared by believers and nonbelievers? What can it be based on now? Does an idea of the end, one that does not imply disinterest in the future but rather a constant examination of the errors of the past, have a critical function? If not, it would be perfectly all right to accept the approach of the end, even without thinking about it, sitting in front of our TV screens (in the shelter of our electronic fortifications), waiting for someone to while meantime things go however they go. And to hell with what will come.	responsibility history future past religion hope life end-of-time end-of-the-world entertainment	Umberto Eco
6bf5340	"There's a voice that says: "So what?" It's not my voice, it's probably not yours, but it makes itself heard in the arenas of public opinion, querulous and smug and fortified by just a little knowledge, which as always is a dangerous thing. "So what if a bunch of species go extinct?" It says. "Extinction is a natural process. Darwin himself said so, didn't he? Extinction is the complement of evolution, making room for new species to evolve. There have always been extinctions. So why worry about these extinctions currently being caused by humanity?" And there has always been a pilot light burning in your furnace. So why worry when your house is on fire?"	future extinctions so-what darwin	David Quammen
2de8720	There is no path to the future, Fitz. The path is now. Now is all there is, or ever will be. You can change perhaps the next breaths in your life. But after that, random chance seizes you in its jaws again. A tree falls on you, a spider bites your ankle, and all your grand plans for winning a battle are for naught. Now is what we have, Fitz, and now is where we act to stay alive.	future path chance focus	Robin Hobb
5e3060f	Understand something people, we will be hated by many in the name of Christ, ridiculed, mocked, stoned, slaughtered. We will be fined, jailed and killed for our love for Christ. You are supposed to see better with your eyes today, how close this is happening, just prepare your heart and soul to be braver than Peter and not deny Christ in the moment your life might be in jeopardy for Him and what you believe. Apostle Pauls says to live is Christ to die is gain.	money words time pain love-quotes literature marriage mind grief feminism loss history reading prayer nature world depression people women freedom dream joy future politics friends leadership quote work inspirational-quotes life-quotes living motivation family destiny imagination fantasy dreams sadness positive-thinking strength music friendship motivational spiritual heart endtime fiction-food-for-though humanity-humour intelligence-is-attractive life-and-living-life-philosophy magic-spirit meditation-men passion-peace patience-johnson pentecost reality-relationship trust-war earning motivational-quotes repentance wisdom-quotes society purpose quotes forgiveness self-improvement power self-help soul patience psychology	Patience Johnson
5040061	The good past is so far away and the near past is so horrible and the future is so perilous, that the present has a chance to expand into a golden eternity of here and now.	future past	Anne Morrow Lindbergh
329d336	Hollywood movies, however, have brainwashed us into thinking that we can defeat the alien invaders if they are a few decades or centuries ahead of us in technology. Hollywood assumes that we can win by using some primitive, clever trick. In Independence Day, all we have to do is inject a simple computer virus into their operating system to bring them to their knees, as if the aliens use Microsoft Windows.	future computers science-fiction movies technology	Michio Kaku
3645db1	Even if you knew what to do you wouldnt know what to do. You wouldnt know if you wanted to do it or not.	future	Cormac McCarthy
05803b9	The future is intact, still unredeemed, but the past is irredeemable. She is not who she thought she was.	future past perception	Jeanette Winterson
976f633	Es ware wenig in der Welt unternommen worden, wenn man nur immer auf den Ausgang gesehen hatte.	future	Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
1f6f7a6	Knowing the future is different from being told what I like.	future likes	Audrey Niffenegger
bc50156	It's hard to be happy in the now when you can't stop worrying about the future. What I want is to trust that everything will work out. To believe with all my heart that I'll end up where I belong.	happy future inspirational	Lisa Schroeder
fd8be9b	The house was so quiet, as if everyone had been spirited out of sight. I had a feeling of moving through time itself. I saw myself as a small, scurrying animal rushing into my future. But I was not afraid.	time future unafraid wolf-by-the-ears house quiet	Ann Rinaldi
9b44ded	If the rowan's roots are shallow, it bears no crown.	metaphor future past heritage legacy	Ursula K. Le Guin
a31f838	"He is my brother," I said. "I cannot desert him." "You can go to your own death," William said. "Or you can survive this, bring up your children, and guard Anne's little girl who will be shamed and bastardized and motherless by the end of this week. You can wait out this reign and see what comes next. See what the future holds for the Princess Elizabeth, defend our son Henry against those who will want to set him up as the king's heir or even worse-flaunt him as a pretender. You owe it to your children to protect them."	future sacrifice love	Philippa Gregory
179cafe	"Paco Fuentes," Mrs. Peterson says, pointing to the table behind Mary. The handsome young man with pale blue eyes like his mother's and smoky black hair like his father's takes his assigned seat. Mrs. Peterson regards her new student over the glasses perched on her nose. "Mr. Fuentes, don't think this class will be a piece of cake because your parents got lucky and developed a medication to halt the progression of Alzheimer's. Your father never did finish my class and he flunked one of my tests, although I have a feeling your mother was the one who should have failed. But that just means I'll expect extra from you."	future past brittney mrs-peterson paco-fuentes seating-arrangements twenty-three-years-later class test parents son mother father	Simone Elkeles
792f10d	What is to be will be, and what isn't to be happens sometimes.	fate future	L.M. Montgomery

The future was in our own hands. If we wanted a world where such things were possible, it was for us to make it.

Juliet Marillier

089fe34

Past and future were out of her hands. One was finished and couldn't be undone. The other was beyond imagining.

future past

Francine Rivers

1be380d

Yesterday, here in the middle of the City, I saw a wolf turn into a Russian ex-gymnast and hand over a business card that read YOUR OWN PERSONAL TRANSHUMAN SECURITY WHORE! STERILIZED INNARDS! ACCEPTS ALL CREDIT CARDS to a large man who had trained attack cancers on his face and possessed seventy-five indentured Komodo Dragons instead of legs. And they had sex. Right in front of me. And six of the Komodo Dragons spat napalm on my new shoes.

sex future dystopia cyberpunk science-fiction

Warren Ellis

1ae57e7

Dwelling on the past only defeated her chances for changing the future.

future past

Francine Rivers

a362d3b

The living stayed home, haunting the world of the dead like ghosts.

future life science-fiction

Neal Stephenson

85b7d10

How grand, to be a Doctor of whatever and to weigh up and decide people's future.

future

Sebastian Faulks

96935b9

The stress of it all. How the hell are we expected at the age of sixteen (and seventeen, in your case) to decide what we want to do for the rest of our lives? Right now all I want to do is get of school, not start planning to get into another one. You're lucky you've always known what you want to do.

future education stress school

Cecelia Ahern

3a91b1d

Fool, there is no sense in trying to play that game with the past. Here is where we are today, and we can only make our moves from here.

future past move sense today play regret

Robin Hobb

16506a8

Where would the shout of love begin, if not from the summit of sacrifice? Oh my brothers, this is the junction between those who think and those who suffer; this barricade is made neither of paving stones, nor of timbers, nor of iron; it is made of two mounds, a mound of ideas and a mound of sorrows. Here misery encounters the ideal. Here day embraces night, and says: I will die with you and you will be born again with me. From the heavy embrace of all desolations springs faith. Sufferings bring their agony here, and ideas their immortality. This agony and immortality will mingle and make up our death. Brothers, whoever dies here dies in the radiance of the future, and we are entering a grave illuminated by the dawn.

future death love happy-martyrs revolution

Victor Hugo

7d1e54c

The future is a blank wall on which every man can write his own name as large as he likes; the past I find already sovered with scribbles, such as Plato, Isaiah, Shakespeare, Michael Angelo, Napoleon. I can make the future as narrow as myself; the past is obliged to be as broad and turbulant as humanity.

future past tradition

G.K. Chesterton

87bba46

...it is the fear of the past; a fear not merely of the evil in the past, but of the good in the past also. The brain breaks down under the unbearable virtue of mankind. There have been so many flaming faiths that we cannot hold; so many harsh heroisms that we cannot imitate; so many great efforts of monumental building or of military glory which seems to us at once sublime and pathetic. The future is a refuge from the fierce competition of our forefathers.

future past forefathers

G.K. Chesterton

598cf1e

On January 18, 1915, six months into the First World War, as all Europe was convulsed by killing and dying, Virginia Woolf wrote in her journal, 'The future is dark, which is on the whole, the best thing the future can be, I think.' Dark, she seems to be saying, as in inscrutable, not as in terrible. We often mistake the one for the other. Or we transform the future's unknowability into something certain, the fulfillment of all our dread, the place beyond which there is no way forward. Be again and again, far stranger things happen than the end of the world.

future unknowability

Rebecca Solnit

b16c2d8

...a great future behind him, already

writer future old waste

Angela Carter

6c9576d

Mothers burning inside the risen suns of their children.

future parenthood

Karen Russell

4cd59ff

I am supposing, or perhaps only hoping, that our future may be found in the past's fugitive moments of compassion rather than in its solid centuries of warfare.

future hope

Howard Zinn

62acf07

This past year - if you'd have tried, you'd have seen even more clearly the futility of trying to change the world without the efforts of everybody else on Earth. You saw and smelled and drank the evidence of six billion disasters that can only be mended by six billion people. || A thousands years ago this wouldn't have been the case. If human beings had suddenly vanished a thousand years ago, the planet would have healed overnight with no damage. Maybe a few lumps where the pyramids sand. One hundred years ago - or even fifty years ago - the world would have healed itself just fine in the absence of people. But not now. We crossed the line. the only thing that can keep the planet turning smoothly now is human free will forged into effort. Nothing else. That's why the world has seemed so large in the past few years, and time so screwy. It's because Earth is now totally ours.

nature future collective-action environment humans

Douglas Coupland

bf07aa0

We need to make progress. Otherwise we're waiting for news in a world where there is no longer any news.

progress future

Ray Bradbury

bf81d56

Oftentimes she wondered what had happened to super 8. Sure, it made perfect sense that nobody wanted the hassle of spending money on a three-minute cartridge of film and threading it through a projector, but though digital cameras were convenient and cheap, Mandy didn't care. Super 8 had integrity, it wasn't just nostalgia, it was art, it was history, it was a little recording medium that somehow possessed the power to evoke lost memories, to turn back time, and there was something dazzling about waiting excitedly for a reel of film to come back in its yellow and red Kodak envelope, eating buttered popcorn while the projector paraded life's best moments, and capturing something beautiful in only three minutes.

photography integrity future future-shock home-movies kodak projector retro super-8 vintage popcorn digital lonliness movies nostalgia

Rebecca McNutt

5cc3ad9

Welcome to the future, she thought, surveying all this wordage and tat. All our tragedies and triumphs, our lives and deaths, our shames and joys are just stuffing for your emptiness.

future life triumphs tragedies

Iain M. Banks

4a4a799

Is there a notion of hope (and of our responsibility to the future) that could be shared by believers and nonbelievers? What can it be based on now? Does an idea of the end, one that does not imply disinterest in the future but rather a constant examination of the errors of the past, have a critical function? If not, it would be perfectly all right to accept the approach of the end, even without thinking about it, sitting in front of our TV screens (in the shelter of our electronic fortifications), waiting for someone to while meantime things go however they go. And to hell with what will come.

responsibility history future past religion hope life end-of-time end-of-the-world entertainment

Umberto Eco

6bf5340

"There's a voice that says: "So what?" It's not my voice, it's probably not yours, but it makes itself heard in the arenas of public opinion, querulous and smug and fortified by just a little knowledge, which as always is a dangerous thing. "So what if a bunch of species go extinct?" It says. "Extinction is a natural process. Darwin himself said so, didn't he? Extinction is the complement of evolution, making room for new species to evolve. There have always been extinctions. So why worry about these extinctions currently being caused by humanity?" And there has always been a pilot light burning in your furnace. So why worry when your house is on fire?"

future extinctions so-what darwin

David Quammen

2de8720

There is no path to the future, Fitz. The path is now. Now is all there is, or ever will be. You can change perhaps the next breaths in your life. But after that, random chance seizes you in its jaws again. A tree falls on you, a spider bites your ankle, and all your grand plans for winning a battle are for naught. Now is what we have, Fitz, and now is where we act to stay alive.

future path chance focus

Robin Hobb

5e3060f

Understand something people, we will be hated by many in the name of Christ, ridiculed, mocked, stoned, slaughtered. We will be fined, jailed and killed for our love for Christ. You are supposed to see better with your eyes today, how close this is happening, just prepare your heart and soul to be braver than Peter and not deny Christ in the moment your life might be in jeopardy for Him and what you believe. Apostle Pauls says to live is Christ to die is gain.

money words time pain love-quotes literature marriage mind grief feminism loss history reading prayer nature world depression people women freedom dream joy future politics friends leadership quote work inspirational-quotes life-quotes living motivation family destiny imagination fantasy dreams sadness positive-thinking strength music friendship motivational spiritual heart endtime fiction-food-for-though humanity-humour intelligence-is-attractive life-and-living-life-philosophy magic-spirit meditation-men passion-peace patience-johnson pentecost reality-relationship trust-war earning motivational-quotes repentance wisdom-quotes society purpose quotes forgiveness self-improvement power self-help soul patience psychology

Patience Johnson

5040061

The good past is so far away and the near past is so horrible and the future is so perilous, that the present has a chance to expand into a golden eternity of here and now.

future past

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

329d336

Hollywood movies, however, have brainwashed us into thinking that we can defeat the alien invaders if they are a few decades or centuries ahead of us in technology. Hollywood assumes that we can win by using some primitive, clever trick. In Independence Day, all we have to do is inject a simple computer virus into their operating system to bring them to their knees, as if the aliens use Microsoft Windows.

future computers science-fiction movies technology

Michio Kaku

3645db1

Even if you knew what to do you wouldnt know what to do. You wouldnt know if you wanted to do it or not.

future

Cormac McCarthy

05803b9

The future is intact, still unredeemed, but the past is irredeemable. She is not who she thought she was.

future past perception

Jeanette Winterson

976f633

Es ware wenig in der Welt unternommen worden, wenn man nur immer auf den Ausgang gesehen hatte.

future

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

1f6f7a6

Knowing the future is different from being told what I like.

future likes

Audrey Niffenegger

bc50156

It's hard to be happy in the now when you can't stop worrying about the future. What I want is to trust that everything will work out. To believe with all my heart that I'll end up where I belong.

happy future inspirational

Lisa Schroeder

fd8be9b

The house was so quiet, as if everyone had been spirited out of sight. I had a feeling of moving through time itself. I saw myself as a small, scurrying animal rushing into my future. But I was not afraid.

time future unafraid wolf-by-the-ears house quiet

Ann Rinaldi

9b44ded

If the rowan's roots are shallow, it bears no crown.

metaphor future past heritage legacy

Ursula K. Le Guin

a31f838

"He is my brother," I said. "I cannot desert him." "You can go to your own death," William said. "Or you can survive this, bring up your children, and guard Anne's little girl who will be shamed and bastardized and motherless by the end of this week. You can wait out this reign and see what comes next. See what the future holds for the Princess Elizabeth, defend our son Henry against those who will want to set him up as the king's heir or even worse-flaunt him as a pretender. You owe it to your children to protect them."

future sacrifice love

Philippa Gregory

179cafe

"Paco Fuentes," Mrs. Peterson says, pointing to the table behind Mary. The handsome young man with pale blue eyes like his mother's and smoky black hair like his father's takes his assigned seat. Mrs. Peterson regards her new student over the glasses perched on her nose. "Mr. Fuentes, don't think this class will be a piece of cake because your parents got lucky and developed a medication to halt the progression of Alzheimer's. Your father never did finish my class and he flunked one of my tests, although I have a feeling your mother was the one who should have failed. But that just means I'll expect extra from you."

future past brittney mrs-peterson paco-fuentes seating-arrangements twenty-three-years-later class test parents son mother father

Simone Elkeles

792f10d

What is to be will be, and what isn't to be happens sometimes.

fate future

L.M. Montgomery