future quotes
The future ain't what it used to be.
The future's bright, the future's Orange.
I want a future that will live up to my past.
Future, n.That periodoftimeinwhichouraffairsprosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
Hear the voice of the Bard! Who present, past and future sees.
To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.
Seldom can the unhappy be persuaded that the evil of the day is sufficient for it; and the ambitious will not be content with the present splendour, but paints yet more glorious triumphs, on the cloud curtain of the future.
He was a man with a great future behind him, already.
The past was nothing to her The future was a mystery which she never attempted to penetrate. The present alone was significant.
STRANGELOVE REPRODUCTION: Having children to make up for the fact that one no longer believes in the future.
To fight for the right, to abhor the imperfect, the unjust, or the mean, to swerve neither to the right hand nor the left, to care nothing for flattery or applause or odium or abuseit is so easy to have any of them in Indianever to let your enthusiasm be soured or your courage grow dim but to remember that the Almighty has placed your hand on the greatest of his ploughs, in whose furrow the nations of the future are germinating and taking shape, to drive the blade a little forward in your time and to feel that somewhere among those millions you have left, a little justice, or happiness or prosperity, a sense of manliness or moral dignity, a springof patriotism, a dawn of intellectual enlightenmentora stirringofduty whereit did not exist beforethat is enough, that is the Englishman's justification in India.
What's the aim of the school of business, for example? They teach students how business is conducted today and how to perpetuate it. Any wonder we're in trouble? They ought to be preparing students for the future, not for the past.
Par toi tout le bonheur que m'offre l'avenir Est dans mon souvenir. Through you, all the happiness that the future offers Is in my memory.
Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.
Let us draw an arrow arbitrarily. If as we follow the arrow we find more and more of the random element in the world, then the arrow is pointing towards the future; if therandomelement decreasesthearrow pointstowards the past I shall usethe phrase'time's arrow'to express this one-way property of time which has no analogue in space.
Forasmuch as there isgreat noise in the city caused by hustling over large balls, from which many evils may arise, which God forbid, we command and forbid on behalf of the King, on pain of imprisonment, such game to be used in the city in future.
Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past.
And right action is freedom From past and future also.
Here the impossible union Of spheres of existence is actual, Here the past and future Are conquered, and reconciled.
This is the use of memory: For liberationnot less of love but expanding Of love beyond desire, and so liberation From the future as well as the past.
Immortality will cometosuch as are fit for it, and he who would be a great soul in future must be a great soul now.
Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedesbeforeus.It eludedusthen, but that's no matterto-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms further And one fine morning So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
Les oeuvres les plus belles sont celles o u' il y a le moins de matie' re; plus l'expression se rapproche de la pense e, plus le mot colle dessus et dispara|"t, plus c'est beau. Je crois que l'avenir de l'art est dans ces voies. The most beautiful works are those that have the least content; the closer the expression is to the thought, the more indistinguishable the word from the content, the more beautiful is the work. I believe that the future of art lies in this direction.
I was bornwith ready-made parents and a sister and brother who had already begun their store of experience, inaccessible to me except through their language and the record, always slightly different, of our mother and father, and as each member of the family wasborn, each,ina sensewithmemories onloan, began to supply the individual furnishings of each Was-land, each Is-land, and the hopes and dreams of the Future.
The alcohol made the present enough, it held her in its golden hand, where past and future were comprehended, where nothing mattered, nothing was lost, where everything could be known and forgiven, where she herself could be whole at last.
One cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side.
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
In1914, Europe had arrived at a point at which every country except Germany was afraid of the present, and Germany was afraid of the future.
He has seen the future and it is hamburgers. See Steffens 814:6.
Never let success hide its emptiness from you; achievement its nothingness; toil its desolation. Keep alivetheincentivetopushonfurther, that pain inthesoul that drives us beyond ourselves. Do not look back, and do not dream about the future either. It will neither give you back the past, nor satisfy your other daydreams. Your duty, your reward, your destiny are here and now.
The nation seems to slouch onward into its uncertain future like some huge inarticulate beast, too much attainted by wounds and ailments to be robust, but too strong and resourceful to succumb.
For the rational study of the law the blackletter man may be the man of the present, but the man of the future is the man of statistics and the master of economics.
To try to talk to the young people who will run the futurein ten minutesis a little like trying to put a cantaloupe in a coke bottle.
Sir, I now pay you this exorbitant charge, but I must ask you to explain to Her Majesty that she must not in future look upon me as a source of income.
History teaches us that enmities between nationsdo not last forever.Wemustconduct ouraffairsinsuchaway that it becomes in the communists' interests to agree on a genuine peaceto let each nation choose its own future, so long as that choice does not interfere with the choices of others. If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
Let it not be said of this Atlantic generation that we left ideals and visions to the past, nor purpose and determination to our adversaries.We have come too far, we have sacrificed too much to disdain the future now.
I look forward toa future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint; its wealth with our wisdom; its power with our purpose.
As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man There are only four things certain since Social Progress began: That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire, And the burnt Fool's bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire.
Les enfants n'ont ni passe ni avenir, et, ce qui ne nous arrive gue' re, ils jouissent du pre sent. Children have neither past nor future. They live in the present, something which rarely happens to us.
Always too eager for the future, we Pick up bad habits of expectancy.
Martha and Jasmine smiled at each otherthe future they dreamed of seemed just around the corner; they could almost touch it. Each saw an ideal town, clean, noble and beautiful, soaring up over the actual town they saw, which consisted in this area of sordid little shops and third-rate cafe s.
The future of humanity is uncertain, even in the most prosperous countries, and the quality of life deteriorates; and yet I believe that what is being discovered about the infinitely large and infinitely small is sufficient to absolve this end of the century and millennium.What a very feware acquiring in knowledge of the physical world will perhaps cause this period not to be judged as a pure return of barbarism.
Thou, too, sail on,O Ship of State! Sail on,O UNION, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate!
The day of the dinosaurs is over. The future belongs to the bridge-builders, not the wreckers.
I hopeto build a society of opportunity. By opportunity,Imeananopensocietya society inwhich what people fulfil will depend upon their talent, their application, and their good fortune.What people achieve should depend particularly on those things, and Ihope increasingly inthefuturethatthat will bethe case.
At 34, he fit the ironic description of the quintessential Rhodes Scholar: someone with a great future behind him.
Mientras en Norteame rica la colonizacio n deposito los ge rmenes de un esp|ritu y una econom|a que se plasmaban entonces en Europa y a los cuales pertenec|a el porvenir, a la Ame rica espan ola trajo los efectos y los me todos de un esp|ritu y una econom|a que declinaban ya y a los cuales no pertenec|a sino el pasado. Whereas in North America colonization planted the seeds of the spirit and economy then growing in Europe
Happily, there is nothing in the laws of value which remains for the present or any future writer to clear up; the theory of the subject is complete.
Thetechnologyofdecentralization can bethesaviouror assassin of contemporary and future society. The role of architects may be uncertain, but the role of architecture is not. In order to look forward society may sometimes haveto look back.This it should do inorder to learnfrom previous mistakes and oversights and to preclude similar eventualities in the future. This does not imply historical dependency, as some would assert. The symbiosis of architecture and technology should prevail, engendered by honesty and integrity. The task will not be easy.
The Aboriginal writer is a Janus-type figure with one face turned to the past and the other to the future while existing ina postmodern, multicultural Australia inwhich he or she must fight for cultural space.
The politics of our society are a conversation in which past, present and future each has a voice; and though one or other of them may on occasion properly prevail none permanently dominates, and on this account we are free.
For thefuture I cease,Deathapproaches with little delay, Since the dragons of Laune and Lane and Lee are destroyed; I'll follow the heroes far from the light of day, The princes myancestors followed before Christ died.
'Who controls the past,'ran the Party slogan,'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.'
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human facefor ever.
I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig- tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked.One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poetI saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig-tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.
La visio n de una Ame rica deslatinizada por propia voluntad, sin la extorsio n de la conquista, y regenerada luego a imagen y semejanza del arquetipo del Norte, flota ya sobre los suen os de muchos sinceros interesados por nuestro porvenir Tenemos nuestra nordoman|a. Es necesario oponerle los l|mites que la razo n y el sentimiento sen alan. The vision of an America de-Latinized of its own will, without threat of conquest, and reconstituted in the image and likeness of the North, now looms in the nightmares of many who are genuinely concerned about our future We have our USA-mania. It must be limited by the boundaries our reason and sentiment jointly dictate.
Perhaps it is God's will to lead the people of South Africa through defeat and humiliation to a better future and a brighter day.
I have seen the future and it works. SeeToynbee 864:30.
Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new: That which they have done but earnest of the things that they shall do: For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be; Saw the heaven fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rained a ghastly dew From the nations'airy navies grappling in the central blue; Far along the world-wide whisper of the south-wind rushing warm, Ulysses With the standards of the peoples plunging through the thunder-storm; Till the war-drum throbbed no longer, and the battle- flags were furled In the Parliament of man, the Federation of the world.
The dark-lit stream has drowned the Future and the Past.
Life is not hurrying on to a receding future, nor hankering after an imagined past. It is the turning aside like Moses to the miracle of the lit bush, to a brightness that seemed as transitory as your youth once, but is the eternity that awaits you.
'Future shock'the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.
I am convinced that the history of so-called scientific work in our famous centers of European civilization will, in a couple of hundred years, represent an inexhaustible source of laughter and sorrow for future generations. The learned men of the small western part of our European continent lived for several centuries under the illusionthatthe eternal blessed life wastheWest'sfuture. They were interested in the problem of when and where this blessed life would come.But they never thought of how they were going to make their life better.
Why are you doing it? What can you buy that you can't already afford? The future, Mr Gittes, the future.
I have seen the future and it does not work. See Steffens 814:6.
Mr Palliser was one of those politicians in possessing whom England has perhaps more reason to be proud than of any other of her resources, and who, as a body, give to her that exquisite combination of conservatism and progress which is her present strength and best security for the future.
In the future everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes.
The future is made of the same stuff as the present.
Books of poetry by young writersareusually promissory notes that are never met. Now and then, however, one comes across a volume that is so far above the average that one can hardly resist the fascinating temptation of recklessly prophesying a fine future for its author. Such a book Mr Yeats's Wanderings of Oisin certainly is. Here we find nobility of treatment and nobility of subject- matter, delicacy of poetic instinct and richness of imaginative resource.
The softest breeze to fairest flowers gives birth: Think not that Prudence dwells in dark abodes, She scans the future with the eye of gods.
Science creates the future without knowing what the future will be. If scientists knew tomorrow's discovery they would make it.
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