Future Quotes - Page 32

• In the world we live in everything militates in favor of things that have not yet happened, of things that will never happen again.

  Andre Breton

  Humanity, Events, World

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• Our obsession with security is a measure of the power we have granted the future to hold over us.

  Wendell Berry

  Obsession, Granted, Security

  Wendell Berry (2015). “The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture”, p.50, Counterpoint

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• The future may be an enemy. Time can turn happy days and nights into nothing.

  Elizabeth Hardwick

  Night, Enemy, May

  Elizabeth Hardwick (1984). “Bartleby in Manhattan, and Other Essays”, Vintage

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• Star Trek characters never go shopping.

  Douglas Coupland

  Stars, Character, Shopping

  Douglas Coupland (2010). “Player One”, p.231, Random House

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• No one can be certain where a nation which spans two continents, whose history begins in the faint traces of early civilization, a nation now struggling to find a new and valid philosophy of existence, will be propelled by the transcendental forces of the nuclear age.

  Harrison Salisbury

  Philosophy, Struggle, Civilization

  Harrison Evans Salisbury (1965). “Russia”, Scribner

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• Atlantis will rise again.

  Charles Olson

  Atlantis

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• I'm a lousy predictor of the future.

  Guy Kawasaki

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• I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.

  Charles Kettering

  Running, People, Objects

  "Professional Amateur: The Biography of Charles Franklin Kettering". Book by Thomas Alvin Boyd, pp. 3-4, 1957.

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• It may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science fiction is.

  Elizabeth Moon

  Fiction, May, Way

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• Happiness or misfortune are prescribed by law of Heaven, but their source comes from ourselves.

  Nguyen Du

  Law, Heaven, Source

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• Tomorrow is our permanent address.

  e. e. cummings

  Addresses, Tomorrow, Permanent

  1 x 1 no. 39, l. 12 (1944)

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• The Doctrine of Evolution states the fact that the present is the child of the past and the parent of the future.

  J. Arthur Thomson

  Children, Science, Past

  J. Arthur Thomson (2008). “The Outline of Science, First Volume”, p.185, Wildside Press LLC

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• We are vulnerable to fear only when we leave the present. If I drift into the past, my regrets surge up, my memories of failing and forsaking. If I shift into the future, I meet with doubt and delusion, fear of what's to come, what I'm not capable of controlling. It's in the present moment that I belong.

  Jan Phillips

  Memories, Regret, Fear

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• Every generation enjoys the use of a vast hoard bequeathed to it by antiquity, and transmits that hoard, augmented by fresh acquisitions, to future ages.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Age, Acquisition, Generations

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• I would rather die standing than live kneeling

  Charb

  Life, Attitude, Kneeling

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• "Science," of course, replaced "God" as a guiding concept for many people after Darwin. Or, really, the two were rolled up into a sticky ball. To some degree this was mindless worship of a miracle future, the pursuit of which has landed us in the fix we now inhabit.

  Bill McKibben

  Two, People, Miracle

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• ...our societies appear to be intent on immediate consumption rather than on investment for the future. We are piling up enormous debts and exploiting the natural environment in a manner which suggests that we have no real sense of any worthwhile future. Just as a society which believes in the future saves in the present in order to invest in the future, so a society without belief spends everything now and piles up debts for future generations to settle. "Spend now and someone else will pay later."

  Lesslie Newbigin

  Real, Believe, Order

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• A society which believes in a worthwhile future saves in the present so as to invest in the future. Contemporary Western society spends in the present and piles up debts for the future, ravages the environment, and leaves its grandchildren to cope with the results as best they can.

  Lesslie Newbigin

  Believe, Grandchildren, Debt

  Lesslie Newbigin (2013). “The Gospel in a Pluralist Society: SPCK Classic”, p.123, SPCK

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• Doomsday is quite within our reach, if we will only stretch for it.

  Loudon Wainwright III

  Doomsday, Ifs

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• Every human action gains in honor, in grace, in all true magnificence, by its regard to things that are to come. It is the far sight, the quiet and confident patience, that, above all other attributes, separate man from man, and near him to his Maker; and there is no action nor art, whose majesty we may not measure by this test.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Men, Sight

  John Ruskin (1849). “The Seven Lamps of Architecture”, p.171

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• If they survive, today's children will inherit a world that our fathers and grandfathers have ravaged, where the seas are acidic cesspools that the whales have fled, where rain forests are Indian memories never to return, and where human greed has plundered Mother Earth's innards and turned human genes into factories for profit. They will inherit a diminished planet where fresh water is increasingly rare, and where fresh air is a commodity... We live in a world that fears and hates its young. How else can one explain the bequest of such a foul, polluted, and hollow inheritance?

  Mumia Abu-Jamal

  Mother, Children, Memories

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• If we continue...to consume the world until there's no more to consume, then there's going to come a day, sure as hell, when our children or their children or their children's children are going to look back on us - on you and me - and say to themselves, "My God, what kind of monsters were these people?"

  Daniel Quinn

  Children, People, Monsters

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• It is time to understand the environment for what it is: the national security issue of the early twenty-first century.

  Robert D. Kaplan

  Issues, Twenties, Firsts

  Robert D. Kaplan (2002). “The Coming Anarchy: Shattering the Dreams of the Post Cold War”, p.19, Vintage

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• It may be observed in general that the future is purchased by the present. It is not possible to secure distant or permanent happiness but by the forbearance of some immediate gratification.

  Samuel Johnson

  May, Forbearance, Immediate Gratification

  Samuel Johnson (1784). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes..”, p.99

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• No one "discovers" the future. The future is not a discovery. The future is not a destiny. The future is a decision, an intervention. Do nothing and we drift fatalistically into a future not driven by technology alone, but by other people's need, greed, and creed. The future is not some dim and distant region out there in time. The future is a reality that is coming to pass with each passing day, with each passing decision.

  Leonard Sweet

  Technology, Reality, Destiny

  Leonard Sweet (2001). “SoulTsunami: Sink Or Swim in New Millennium Culture”, p.55, Zondervan

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