Futures Quotes (page 97)

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• future
• today
• depended

The future depends on what you do today. Mahatma Gandhi

• courage
• memorial
• childhood memories

I am not concerned with the moron, the ordinary hairless ape, who takes everything in his stride; his only childhood memory is of a mule that bit him; his only consciousness of the future a vision of board and bed. What I am thinking of is the man of imagination and science, whose courage is infinite because his curiosity surpasses his courage. Vladimir Nabokov

• future
• prepare
• preparing

GRAPESHOT, n. An argument which the future is preparing in answer to the demands of American Socialism. Ambrose Bierce

• women
• future
• men

I like men who have a future and women who have a past. Oscar Wilde

• running
• people
• earth

Now Karen wants a pill that will make the whole twenty-first century disappear - that will make this unavoidable future vanish. Dr Yamato said that earth was not built for six billion people, all running around and being passionate about being alive. Earth was built for about two million people foraging for roots and grubs. Doug Coupland

• future
• ignorance
• past

A generation that ignores history has no past and no future. Robert A. Heinlein

• girl
• movie
• girls

... among them the nameless girl, with her guillotine mouth, strolling through the past and the future like a movie face. Roberto Bolano

• cool
• forest
• animal

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

• time
• future
• past

Time present and time past / are both perhaps present in time future. T. S. Eliot

• real
• passion
• him

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

• change
• future
• past

It's what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future. Paulo Coelho

• end summer
• past
• end

With a tear for the dark past, turn we then to the dazzling future, and, veiling our eyes, press forward. The long and weary winter of the race is ended. Its summer has begun. Humanity has burst the chrysalis. The heavens are before it. Edward Bellamy

• fear
• good
• future

Fear not. Be of good cheer. The future is as bright as your faith. Thomas S. Monson

• nature
• to live
• confused

Perhaps extreme danger strips us of all pretenses, all ambitions, all confusions, focusing us more intensely than we are otherwise ever focused, so that we remember what we otherwise spend most of our lives forgetting: that our nature and purpose is, more than anything else, to love and to make love, to take joy from the beauty of the world, to live with an awareness that the future is not as real a place for any of us as are the present and the past. Dean Koontz

• future
• little
• mistake

Arguments from authority carry little weight? authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a better way to say it is that in science there ar no authorities; at most, there are experts. Carl Sagan