Our Future Quotes - Page 3

• There's an old poem by Neruda that I've always been captivated by, and one of the lines in it has stuck with me ever since the first time I read it. It says "love is so short, forgetting is so long." It's a line I've related to in my saddest moments, when I needed to know someone else had felt that exact same way. And when we're trying to move on, the moments we always go back to aren't the mundane ones. They are the moments you saw sparks that weren't really there, felt stars aligning without having any proof, saw your future before it happened, and then saw it slip away without any warning.

  Taylor Swift

  Stars, Moving, Love Is

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• We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Past, Parent, Advice

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• I think it's very clear that the American people are frustrated with this move toward socialism. And so whether you're back or white, if you believe that the conservative construct is in the best interest of our future, than you too would be voting with Republicans, and if you had the opportunity to run you'd join us as well.

  Tim Scott

  Running, Believe, Moving

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• What is the most entrepreneurial country in the Middle East today? It's Lebanon. Which country has no oil or gas? Lebanon. The same was true of Israel, the same was of Bahrain. You could see a real gradation. Turkey, for instance: no oil and gas, very entrepreneurial. You can either dig your future out of the ground or you can unlock the potential of your people.

  Thomas Friedman

  Country, Real, Israel

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• Why don't we save and invest in our future and start making the things that millions of Chinese consumers are going to want in the future.

  George Osborne

  Chinese, Want, Consumers

  Source: blog.moneysavingexpert.com

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• I've been a proud mentor to many women seeking public office, because I believe we need more women at all levels of government. Women have an equal stake in our future and should have an equal voice in our politics. These are challenging times, but I believe getting more women to run for office is a big part of the solution.

  Kamala Harris

  Running, Believe, Office

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• Let's take the money that we've been spending on war over the last decade to rebuild America, roads, bridges schools. We do those things, not only is your future going to be bright but America's future is going to bright as well.

  Barack Obama

  War, School, Bridges

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I think people's minds are going to have to assimilate in the sense that all the world is international now. The whole world has gone global. I think cities like San Francisco and Los Angeles are the models of our future.

  Pico Iyer

  Thinking, San Francisco, Cities

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• We have a strong and vital role to play in Iraq, and we certainly cannot leave a vacuum for the insurgents to take over. We are engaged in a conflict from which America cannot afford to cut and run. We must be steadfast in this endeavor, upon which depends not only our future but that of the entire modern world.

  George W. Bush

  Running, Strong, Cutting

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I love my work. What's more fun than playing with imagination? I also believe storytelling is the most powerful way people communicate with one another, interpret our lives, share our dreams, even form our futures. So when I sit down to write every day, I keep the fun, and also what I consider a large cultural project that connects people, at the center of what I'm doing.

  Lucy Jane Bledsoe

  Dream, Fun, Powerful

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Science is the key to our future, and if you don't believe in science, then you're holding everybody back.

  Bill Nye

  Believe, Keys, Ifs

  "NBC Cheers 'Firebrand for Science' Bill Nye Pushing Climate Change". www.newsbusters.org. July 22, 2013.

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• If you hide information from people, don't want people to see the Ten Commandments or don't want people to hear about Darwin, aren't we hiding things that we know from our future generations? I just think that that's incorrect.

  John Mellencamp

  Thinking, People, Generations

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• Children aren't just our future. They're our present.

  Ricky Martin

  Children

  "Ricky Martin giving a voice to exploited children". "CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute" with Anderson Cooper, www.cnn.com. November 16, 2010.

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• Be kind and gentle on yourself. In this fast-paced world, we are so hard on ourselves and impatient with healing. Unfortunately, there is nothing you can do to speed up the process. Sure, you can numb the pain or distract yourself, but if you don't allow yourself to process the emotion in a healthy way, the pain and darkness just gets buried deep inside you, and eventually comes up in your future relationships. Stop blaming yourself, and instead try to look for the lesson and the growth opportunity.

  Amy Chan

  Pain, Healing, Opportunity

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• A friend is someone who understand your past, believes in your future, and accepts you today just the way you are.

  Unknown

  Believe, Past, Today

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• My work to me is more like what the Native Americans say: When we walk upon the earth, we always place our feet very carefully upon the ground, because we know the faces of our future generations are looking up at us from below, and we never forget them. I think as a culture today we've forgotten them. This work is a way to help us remember them. It's a way for us not only to find meaning in our individual lives, but to extend that approach all across the planet. Because if we don't, we won't have a planet.

  Wayne Dyer

  Native American, Thinking, Culture

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• I believe there is a moment growing up when you build your own mood board. You do a collage - you collect a few things, a few images that will be so important for your future choices. Not only aesthetic, or what you like for dressing, but your artistic choices. The room where I put papers and pictures and posters on the walls when I was a kid, it's still very strong in my head today. This movie poster or that portrait of a girl I took from a magazine, deep inside, is inspiration that comes back all the time.

  Nicolas Ghesquiere

  Girl, Strong, Wall

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• We are masters, first, of our attitudes. Our attitudes shape our future. This is a universal law.

  W. Clement Stone

  Attitude, Law, Shapes

  Source: www.barnesandnoble.com

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• Remember me when I am gone away, Gone far away into the silent land; When you can no more hold me by the hand, Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay. Remember me when no more day by day You tell me of our future that you planned: Only remember me; you understand It will be late to counsel then or pray. Yet if you should forget me for a while And afterward remember, do not grieve: For if the darkness and corruption leave A vestige of the thoughts that once I had, Better by far you should forget and smile Than that you should remember and be sad.

  Christina Rossetti

  Grieving, Hands, Land

  "Remember" l. 13 (1862)

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• The past is to be respected and acknowledged, but not to be worshipped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Past, Greatness

  "York University: The Way Must Be Tried" by Michiel Horn, (p. 4), 2008.

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• I said peace is sometimes narrowly interpreted; it's the absence of conflict between nations or something. But peace is more inherent, more basic to human life, human beings, what we feel about each other, what we feel about life around us and what we see in our future.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Sometimes, Conflict, Absence

  The CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. November 20, 2007.

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• The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered.

  Andre Gide

  Life, Future, Mean

  "Les Faux Monnayeurs". Book by André Gide, Pt. 3, ch. 16, 1925.

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• She was no longer that happy creature who in earlier youth wandered with me on the banks of the lake and talked with ecstasy of our future prospects. The first of those sorrows which are sent to wean us from the earth had visited her, and its dimming influence quenched her dearest smiles.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Lakes, Sorrow, Earth

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1993). “Frankenstein”, p.72, Wordsworth Editions

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• It is always useful to think badly about people one has exploited or plans to exploit... No one likes to think of him or herself as a bad person. To treat badly another person whom we consider a reasonable human being creates a tension between act and attitude that demands resolution. We cannot erase what we have done, and to alter our future behavior may not be in our interest. To change our attitude is easier.

  James W. Loewen

  Attitude, Thinking, People

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• In the digital universe, our personal history and its sense of narrative is succeeded by our social networking profile - a snapshot of the current moment. The information itself - our social graph of friends and likes - is a product being sold to market researchers in order to better predict and guide our futures.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Order, Networking, Snapshots

  Douglas Rushkoff (2013). “Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now”, p.57, Penguin

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