Futures Quotes (page 85)

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• sometimes
• hard
• past

Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all. Evelyn Waugh

• words
• different
• reality

Lies 1: There is only the present and nothing to remember. Lies 2: Time is a straight line. Lies 3: The difference between the past and the futures is that one has happened while the other has not. Lies 4: We can only be in one place at a time. Lies 5: Any proposition that contains the word 'finite' (the world, the universe, experience, ourselves...)Lies 6: Reality as something which can be agreed upon. Lies 7: Reality is truth. Jeanette Winterson

• future
• faith
• good

Be of good cheer. The future is as bright as your faith. Thomas S. Monson

• job
• insanity
• hero

We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heroes or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe it's our job to invent something better. Chuck Palahniuk

• god
• peace
• future

I am not blaming the past. ... But I want the peace of God to settle on the future. Benjamin Jowett

• future
• end
• futurism

The future is uncertain but the end is always near. Jim Morrison

• him
• together
• broken

[That wall] might be breached sometime in the future, but for now the only real conversation between them was the roots that had already grown low and deep, under the wall, where they could not be broken. The most terrible thing, though, was the fear that the wall could never be breached, that in his heart Alai was glad of the separation, and was ready to be Ender's enemy. For now that they could not be together, they must be infinitely apart, and what had been sure and unshakable was now... Orson Scott Card

• death
• future
• you me

... you have not asked me, for instance, what is my favourite flavour of jam, to check that I am indeed Professor Dumbledore, and not an imposter." [...] "For future reference, Harry, it is raspberry ... although of course if I were a Death Eater, I would have been sure to research my own jam-preferences before impersonating myself. J. K. Rowling

• happy
• hurt
• pain

It will hurt." said Petra. "But let's make the most of what we have, and not let future pain ruin present happiness. Orson Scott Card

• book
• future
• liked

There is no future for e-books, because they are not books. E-books smell like burned fuel. Ray Bradbury

• future
• god
• life

I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious theories of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God. Thomas Edison

• future
• my future
• across

I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future. Jack Kerouac

• learning
• future
• past

I stole their future from them; I can only being to repay by seeing what I can learn from their past. Orson Scott Card

• sacrifice
• forward
• beautiful

Long accustomed to a life of self-indulgent solitude, he began to yearn for the beauty of giving himself to others. The nobility of the word 'sacrifice' became clear to him. He took satisfaction in the feeling of his own littleness as a single seed whose purpose was to carry forward from the past into the future the life of the species called humanity. He even sympathized with the thought that the human species, together with the various kinds of minerals and plants, was no more than a small... Yasunari Kawabata

• faith
• future
• heart

I am pleading for the future; I am pleading for a time when hatred and cruelty will not control the hearts of men. When we can learn by, reason and judgment and understanding and faith that all life is worth saving, and that mercy is the highest attribute of man. Clarence Darrow