Future Imperfect Quotes

#1. Can you predict the future with absolute certainty? Your answer must be no. You have two options: You can either decide to accept yourself as an imperfect human being with limited knowledge and realize that you will at times make mistakes, or you can hate yourself for it.

David D. Burns

#2. Backup backpacks.

Wendelin Van Draanen

#3. I speak with my father about everything in my life.

Jared Kushner

#4. Give to a being the useless, and deprive him of the needful, and you have the gamin.

Victor Hugo

#5. Blake is damned good to steal from.

Henry Fuseli

#6. I guess the characters I play may be at the more destructive edge of the spectrum, more damaged or whatever, but I find a lot of female roles uninteresting.

Lili Taylor

#7. Despite her self-reproach, she envied Anna, that she could do what Alice couldn't - keep her children safe from harm. Anna would never have to sit opposite her daughter, her firstborn, and watch her struggle to comprehend the news that she would someday develop Alzheimer's.

Lisa Genova

#8. I got a Valentine's Day card from my girl. It said, 'Take my heart! Take my arms! Take my lips!' Which is just like her. Keeping the best part for herself.

Robert Orben

#9. Just a sec. Just two months. Just a lifetime. Just a sec.

Miranda July

#10. His skin like grey bark, his eyes pale as a winter pool, time and age had worn my father to the bone. In our youth, he'd been a strict master lording over my lessons while tender with the flower of his heart, my sister Anabine. Ana, the lovely, blooming jewel. Zyndel, she of clever wit.

Jamie Wyman

#11. The children's happy cries rise and fall in the evening light as imperfect and irrevocable as the past, and he stands in the yard of his father's house, waiting, poised motionless on the frontier of the future, until it is too dark to see.

Gregorio C. Brillantes

#12. Those who are wholly God's are always happy.

Francois Fenelon

#13. Bravery isn't when you go looking for trouble; bravery is when trouble comes looking for you.

P.I. Barrington

#14. It is possible to reclaim your future, to build a happy life despite an imperfect past. We can order the universe to our will and mind.

Katherine Marsh

#15. All life is an experiment. Every important decision is taken with inadequate knowledge by imperfect men and women whom the future will confound. Yet we act nevertheless.

Philip Bobbitt

#16. Space and time are real for the man who is yet imperfect, and space is divided for him into dimensions; time, into past, present, and future.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#17. There are lots of other things that affect state growth besides state taxes. However, the reason I look at taxes is because these are policy variables that can be changed by state governments in order to get better results than they otherwise had.

Arthur Laffer

#18. Tied to the value of the person is the principle of servanthood. We value what we freely serve.

Douglas Groothuis