Future Quotes - Page 33

• The dark aftermath of the frontier, of the vast promise of possibility this country first offered, is an inflated sense of American entitlement today. We want what we want, and we want it now. Easy credit. Fast food. A straight shot down the interstate from point A to point B. The endless highway is crowded with the kinds of cars large enough to take a mountain pass in high snow. Instead they are used to take children from soccer practice to Pizza Hut. In the process they burn fuel like there's no tomorrow. Tomorrow's coming.

  Anna Quindlen

  Soccer, Country, Children

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• The end of nature sours all my material pleasures. The prospect of living in a genetically engineered world sickens me. And yet it is toward such a world that our belief in endless material advancement hurries us. As long as that desire drives us, here is no way to set limits.

  Bill McKibben

  Long, Desire, Advancement

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• Thoughtful people are concerned with the future because that is the only area of experience about which anything can be done. We cannot change the past, and the present is gone as soon as it is reported, but the future is that in which we can make a difference.

  D. Elton Trueblood

  Thoughtful, Past, Differences

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• What we have been told is how we men can be drawn into Christ-can become part of that wonderful present which the young Prince of the universe wants to offer to His Father-that present which is Himself and therefore us in Him. It is the only thing we were made for. And there are strange, exciting hints in the Bible that when we are drawn in, a great many other things in Nature will begin to come right. The bad dream will be over: it will be morning.

  C. S. Lewis

  Dream, Morning, Father

  C.S. Lewis (1960). “Mere Christianity”

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• Ethical and moral questions and how we answer them may determine whether primal scenes will continue to be a source of joy and comfort to future generations. The decisions are ours and we have to search our minds and souls for the right answers... We must be eternally vigilant, embrace the broad concept of an environmental ethic to survive.

  Sigurd F. Olson

  Decision, Joy, Soul

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• Life is short - while we speak it flies; enjoy, then, the present, and forget the future; such is the moral of ancient poetry, a graceful and a wise moral - indulged beneath a southern sky, and all deserving, the phrase applied to it - the philosophy of the garden.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Life, Wise, Philosophy

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• It is absurd to say that the age of miracles is past. It has not yet begun.

  Oscar Wilde

  Past, Miracle, Age

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.107, Courier Corporation

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• So our future is in our own hands. What greater free will do we need?

  Dalai Lama

  Hands, Needs, Free Will

  Dalai Lama (2004). “Dzogchen: The Heart Essence of the Great Perfection”, Snow Lion Publication

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• To me there is no past or future in art. If a work of art does not live in the present, it must not be considered at all.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Past, Doe

  Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Fernand Léger, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery (1975). “Picasso, Braque, Léger: masterpieces from Swiss collections”

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• Don't worry about the past and don't try to solve the future.

  Garrison Keillor

  Past, Worry, Trying

  Garrison Keillor (2009). “A Christmas Blizzard: A Novel”, p.36, Penguin

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• Now I come to you full of future. And from habit we begin to live our past.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Past, Habit, Our Past

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• I don't know what's coming next and neither does anyone else. It's something that we do have to face but the thing is that a lot of people don't want to face it. And there's denial. If somebody says it, like me, everybody feels a little better that they can discuss it.

  Art Buchwald

  People, Doe, Denial

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• Forget the future. I'd worship someone who could do that.

  Rumi

  Worship, Forget

  Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana), Jelaluddin Rumi, Kabir Helminski, Andrew Harvey (2005). “The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi”, p.7, Shambhala Publications

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• Tomorrow has always been better than today, and it always will be.

  Paul Harvey

  Today, Tomorrow, Pessimist

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• One must have a high opinion of a work of art - not the work one is creating at the moment, but of that which one desires to achieve one day. Without this it is not worthwhile working.

  Edgar Degas

  Art, Creating, Desire

  Edgar Degas (1995). “Edgar Degas: Paintings”

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• Whatever may happen the sun will rise tomorrow as it rose to-day, beneficent and serene.

  Paul Gauguin

  Rose, May, Sun

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• You can tell the date of an old science fiction novel by every word on the page. Nothing dates harder and faster and more strangely than the future.

  Neil Gaiman

  Fiction Novels, Pages, Science Fiction

  Neil Gaiman (2002). “Adventures in the Dream Trade”, N E S F A Press

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• Many mornings I check out the news as soon as I wake up, because if it turns out that the world is coming to an end that day, I am going to eat the frosting off an entire carrot cake; just for a start. Then I will move onto vats of clam dip, pots of crime brûlée, nachos, M & M's etc. Then I will max out both my credit cards.

  Anne Lamott

  Morning, Moving, Cake

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• It is difficult to predict, especially the future.

  Niels Bohr

  Difficult

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• Future art that is based on appearances won't look like the art that's gone before. Even revivals of a period are not the same.

  David Hockney

  Art, Looks, Gone

  "David Hockney". Book by David Hockney, 1981.

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• It is an old cliche to say that the future is in the hands of the young. This is no longer true. The quality of life to be enjoyed or the existence to be survived by our children and future generations is in our hands now.

  Prince Philip

  Children, Hands, Quality

  Speech at the World Wildlife Fund Congress, London, in 1970. "The Environmental Revolution: Speeches on Conservation, 1962-77", 1978.

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• Humans are the only animals that try to dwell in the future. You don't have to purely live in the present situation without a plan, but the future plans you make can only be based on the aspects of the future that manifest within the present situation.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Animal, Trying, Live In The Present

  Chogyam Trungpa (2008). “Ocean of Dharma: The Everyday Wisdom of Chogyam Trungpa”, p.132, Shambhala Publications

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• You have no idea how pleasant it is not to have any future. It's like having a totally efficient contraceptive.

  Anthony Burgess

  Ideas, Pleasant, Efficient

  Anthony Burgess (2013). “Honey for the Bears”, p.187, W. W. Norton & Company

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• On the other hand, permanent causes produce helplessness far into the future, and universal causes spread helplessness through all your endeavors.

  Martin Seligman

  Hands, Causes, Produce

  Martin E.P. Seligman (2011). “Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life”, p.89, Vintage

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• Youth does not think into the future far enough, therefore we must encourage them to dream of great tomorrows.

  Henrietta Mears

  Dream, Thinking, Doe

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