Future Man Quotes

#1. In the future, man will be able to create an artificial Sun which is very similar to the Sun in the sky that was once upon a time worshipped as a god!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#2. To reach the future, man needs to be clever and more important than this he must be lucky!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#3. The robbers of time are the past and the future. Man should bless the past, and forget it, if it keeps him in bondage, and bless the future, knowing it has in store for him endless joys, but live fully in the now.

Florence Scovel Shinn

#4. Of the future, man knows least; yet, about this, he worries most.

Ivan Panin

#5. Home is the seminary of all other institutions. There are the roots of all public prosperity, the foundations of the State, the germs of the church. There is all that in the child makes the future man; all that in the man makes the good citizen.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#6. As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.

Samuel Richardson

#7. What is memory foam? How does it remember things? Does it have its own brain?" Edilyn
"You wouldn't believe me if I told you. Suffice it to say, it's something future man will thank modern science for. There's also a toilet in the bathroom." Virag
"A what in the who?" Edilyn

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#8. This castaway, that, like a man transplanted into another planet, was separated by an immense space from his past and by an immense ignorance from his future.

Joseph Conrad

#9. He who is prepared for the future and he who deals cleverly with any situation that may arise are both happy; but the fatalistic man who wholly depends on luck is ruined.

Chanakya

#10. The man for whom history is bunk is almost invariably as obtuse to the future as he is blind to the past.

J. Frank Dobie

#11. I was here, and I loaded a shotgun on Independence Day, but I didn't kill anybody. I didn't drone any children. I didn't steal any children's future. I didn't sell this country into debt. I didn't do any of the crimes that the man two blocks over at the White House is responsible for,

Adam Kokesh

#12. Our country demands all our strength, all our energies. To resist the powerful combination now forming against us will require every man at his place. If victorious, we will have everything to hope for in the future. If defeated, nothing will be left for us to live for.

Robert E.Lee

#13. If man has not found ways to deal with environmental problems such as water and air pollution by 1998, it will be too late. The future is not determined and it lies in our own hands.

Margaret Mead

#14. As a man with imagination you can enjoy only in regret or in anticipation - that is, in the past or in the future.

Marcel Proust

#15. The three of us blended with the clientele as well as a fifteen year-old ex-thief, a girl from the future masquerading as a young man, and a second-son of a Lord-turned-student could.

April White

#16. For my part, I do not feel that the scheme of future happiness, which ought by rights to be in preparation for me, will be at all interfered with by my not meeting again the man I have in my. mind.

James Payn

#17. In the future I man a lighthouse with my wife, daughter, and father-in-law. We send out a great beam of light every night even though no one ever sees it.

Matthew Quick

#18. The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free.

John F. Kennedy

#19. I won't shy away at the fact that when I love a man, I really love a man. Im the type of woman that enjoys making my man, feel worthy & if that means I am old in my beliefs, than my future husband will be a lucky man.

Nikki Rowe

#20. The most futile thing a man can do is to ponder the alternatives, to stew and fret over the life that might have been lived if circumstances had not pointed his future in a certain direction.

William Styron

#21. Human conduct is ever unreliable until man is anchored in the Divine. Everything in the future will improve if you are making a spiritual effort now.

Sri Yukteswar Giri

#22. Not to know what happened before you were born is always to remain a child. For what is a man's life if it is not linked with the life of future generations by memories of the past?

Marianne Curley

#23. It seems to me that man has engaged in a blind and fearful struggle out of a past he can't remember, into a future he can't foresee nor understand. And man has met and defeated every obstacle, every enemy except one. He cannot win over himself. How mankind hates himself.

John Steinbeck

#24. We want the active and zealous help of every man far-sighted enough to realize the importance from the standpoint of the nation's welfare in the future of preserving the forests.

Theodore Roosevelt

#25. Every man is his own Pygmalion, and spends his life fashioning himself. And in fashioning himself, for good or ill, he fashions the human race and its future.

I. F. Stone

#26. Girls from my graduating class come into the store brandishing solitaire diamonds like Legion of Honor medals, as if they've accomplished something significant - which I guess they think they have, though all I can see is a future of washing some man's clothes stretching ahead of them.

Christina Baker Kline

#27. What a man wants is a mate and what a woman wants is infinite security,' and, 'What a man is is an arrow into the future and a what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from.

Sylvia Plath

#28. By mere burial man arrives not at bliss; and in the future life, throughout its whole infinite range, they will seek for happiness as vainly as they sought it here, who seek it in aught else than that which so closely surrounds them here - the Infinite.

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

#29. The future needed service, not pity, not piety; but in the past lay darkness, confusion, waste, and all the cramped primitive minds, bewildered, torturing one another in their stupidity, yet one and all in some unique manner, beautiful.

Olaf Stapledon

#30. The joining together of a man and a woman to be legally and lawfully wed not only is preparation for future generations to inherit the earth, but it also brings the greatest joy and satisfaction that can be found in this mortal experience.

L. Tom Perry

#31. To make a man happy, fill his hands with work, his heart with affection, his mind with purpose, his memory with useful knowledge, his future with hope, and his stomach with food.

Frederick E. Crane

#32. Still, she would not have married a man she knew full well did not love her, had there seemed any possible hope of a future with one who did. A man she had loved with every fragment of her broken heart.

Julie Klassen

#33. Have you never heard what the wise man say : all of the future exists in the past.

Truman Capote

#34. You may live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension.

Nikola Tesla

#35. A time comes in the life of a man when all you do is reflect on retrospective actions and desire better outcomes in the future

Wogu Donald

#36. Stop trying to make an X-men out of an Ex man. If he was meant to be super he would have been, leave the past in the past and look to your future. - AHC III

A.H. Carlisle III

#37. We have to define future worlds by imagining them first together.
Otherwise, we will deal with no man's lands and potential conflicts.

Toba Beta

#38. The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented. It was man's ability to invent which has made human society what it is. The mental processes of inventions are still mysterious. They are rational but not logical, that is to say, not deductive.

Dennis Gabor

#39. Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.

Marcus Aurelius

#40. But Alfred could not live long. He was already an old man, well past forty years, and now he was looking to the future. He

Bernard Cornwell

#41. An old man's beliefs matter little. I am the past. You, the future. What are your beliefs?

Guillermo Del Toro

#42. That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.

Anatole France

#43. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.

Oscar Wilde

#44. Great leaders do not see people for who they are, but who than can become. Further, the great leader compels those that follow them to become that man or woman of the future, likely exceeding the expectations of both.

Chris Alexander

#45. The Great Work is, before all things, the creation of man by himself, that is to say, the full and entire conquest of his faculties and his future; it is especially the perfect emancipation of his will.

Eliphas Levi

#46. I no longer believe there's any such thing as losing a woman. A man loses himself as women slip into the future.

Josh Wagner

#47. I am pleading for the future; I am pleading for a time when hatred and cruelty will not control the hearts of men. When we can learn by, reason and judgment and understanding and faith that all life is worth saving, and that mercy is the highest attribute of man.

Clarence Darrow

#48. I do see myself settling down, getting married and having kids. But when I think about a family life in the future there's rarely a man involved which is kind of weird.

Amy Winehouse

#49. Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly; and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men.

Sophocles

#50. Man has his future within him, dynamically alive at this present moment.

Abraham Maslow

#51. You're not ready to hear this yet," he concluded. "But I do need you to know that I'm going to fight for you. I'm not making the mistake of walking away from you again. The only man in your future is me, Liv. The only kids in your future are mine.

Samantha Young

#52. My will shall shape the future. Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man's doing but my own. I am the force. I can clear any obstacle before me or I can be lost in the maze. My choice, my responsibility. Win or lose, only I hold the key to my destiny.

Elaine Maxwell

#53. Anyone can create the future but only a wise man can create the past

Vladimir Nabokov

#54. While a man is stringing a harp, he tries the strings, not for music, but for construction. When it is finished it shall be played for melodies. God is fashioning the human heart for future joy. He only sounds a string here and there to see how far His work has progressed.

Henry Ward Beecher

#55. Believing as I do that man in the distant future will be a far more perfect creature than he now is, it is an intolerable thought that he and all other sentient beings are doomed to complete annihilation after such long-continued slow progress.

Charles Darwin

#56. Such is the cost of immortality. No person is whole. No person is free. Over time, some have determined that the only way to live is to die. In death, a man or a woman is free of the weight of the past [and the future].

Alan Lightman

#57. Unlike lovers they possessed no past; unlike man and wife, they possessed no future; yet up to in this morning Nicole had liked Abe better than anyone except Dick
and he had been heavy, belly-frightened, with love for her for years.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#58. Behind every preventable threat to the future of the human race lurks a boy in a man's body with both hands buried deep in the cookie jar set aside for future generations.

Daniel Prokop

#59. The gunslinger came awake from a confused dream which seemed to consist of a single image: that of the Sailor in the Tarot deck from which the man in black had dealt (or purported to deal) the gunslinger's own moaning future.

Stephen King

#60. I've seen the future! It's a bald-headed man from New York!

Albert Brooks

#61. The spirit of man, which God inspired, cannot together perish with this corporeal clod.

John Milton

#62. Emerging from barbarism is a slow process and as man is , geologically speaking, still very young, he has his whole future before him.

Theodore Monod

#63. The first category is always the man of the present, the second the man of the future. The first preserve the world and people it, the second move the world and lead it to its goal.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#64. He'd do anything, absolutely everything for this man, suck him, kill, kill himself, run away, be something else, anything else, everything just blurred, darkness, a place inside that only held him and Dan. Nobody else, nothing else, no time, no place, no affiliations, no past, no future.

Aleksandr Voinov

#65. The great revolution of the future will be Nature's revolt against man.

Holbrook Jackson

#66. It wasn't the victory of one man or the death of another. It was the death of the future, and of our youth, because we might be rather old before the conservers left and the compassionate men came back. Saturday.

Gloria Steinem

#67. Our future was so completely unknown, and I think that the unknown and the awful always bring a man nearer to his Maker.

H. Rider Haggard

#68. A woman fallen has no future; a man risen has no past.

Eleanor Catton

#69. The happy man is he who turns his soul Unto the light of joys that he can find; And pays each day its just demand of toll, But shuts the future troubles from his mind.

Edgar Guest

#70. Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

Victor Hugo

#71. A man always revealed his own inner story in his actions and expressions. A man's past deeds foretold his future and allowed anyone with half a brain to divine the path he would take.

Alice Hoffman

#72. "Ghost of the Future," he exclaimed, "I fear you more than any spectre I have seen. But as I know your purpose is to do me good, and as I hope to live to be another man from what I was, I am prepared to bear you company, and do it with a thankful heart. Will you not speak to me?"

Charles Dickens

#73. Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#74. Lose what? A man only has a soul to be won or lost; apart from his life, he has nothing. Past or future lives do not matter - at the moment you are living this one, and you should do so with silent comprehension, joy and enthusiasm. What you must not lose is your enthusiasm.

Paulo Coelho

#75. Submission to something you didn't preach yourself is no good, I quote. Because Man must burst his ridiculous bonds, which consist of what is supposedly current reality with a prospect of a future reality of scarcely any greater value.

Elfriede Jelinek

#76. He had to raise his voice to be heard over the wind. 'That Might be our future in that box.'
'The future is ours to take, Jack we don't need anybody to give it to us.' Walker looked out through the windows at the lake. It was immense.

Jack McDevitt

#77. America is indeed a revelation, though not quite the one that was planned. Given a clean slate, man, it was hoped, would write the future. Instead, he has written his past.

Mary McCarthy

#78. A man cannot directly choose his future.....but
he can directly choose his present ...so indirectly shape his future.

Dr Lloyd Magangeni

#79. When a man is interested in the past he writes history; when he is interested in the future he makes it.

Will Durant

#80. 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

#81. What man really seeks is not perfection which is in the future, but fulfillment which is ever in the present.

Nilakanta Sri Ram

#82. To withdraw isn't a sign of weakness ... It is a sign that a man knows the limits of his capabilities and the most probable outcome of the future. One who retreats to fight another day isn't running away, but looking for another road towards the same destination.

Lionel Suggs

#83. [W]e should be mucking about all the time, because mucking about is enjoying life for its own sake, now, and not in preparation for an imaginary future. It's obvious that the mirth-filled man, the cheerful soul, the childish adult is the one who has least to fear from life.

Tom Hodgkinson

#84. The scholar is that man who must take up into himself all the ability of the time, all the contributions of the past, all the hopes of the future. He must be an university of knowledges.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#85. What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?

Emile M. Cioran

#86. Am I racially kin to this man? Baynes wondered. So closely so that for all intents and purposes it is the same? Then it is in me, too, the psychotic streak. A psychotic world we live in. The madmen are in power. How long have we known this? Faced this? And - how many of us do know it?

Philip K. Dick

#87. It was quite tough, not many opportunities.
I remember in primary school, one of my teachers said, "As for you young man, you haven't got much of a future."

John Ilhan

#88. Man, being made reasonable, and so a thinking creature, there is nothing more worthy of his being than the right direction and employment of his thoughts; since upon this depends both his usefulness to the public, and his own present and future benefit in all respects.

William Penn

#89. The only future we count is the time and the moments we can take a breath and leave a word for the future coming generations.

Auliq Ice

#90. At the other end of the spectrum, George Gideon Oliver King Rameses Osborne, the fourteen-year-old novelty Chancellor and future baronet of Ballentaylor and Ballylemon - a man so posh he probably weeps champagne.

Charlie Brooker

#91. There was no cure for the human condition because every man read the present and plotted the future in the light of his own past.

Morris West

#92. To make of human affairs a coherent, precise, predictable whole one must ignore or suppress man as he really is. It is by eliminating man from their equation that the makers of history can predict the future, and the writers of history can give a pattern to the past.

Eric Hoffer

#93. Treat your date with the respect and purity you hope your future spouse will have. Keep in mind how you will expect a young man to treat your daughter one day. By listening to your conscience in this way, you'll have a good idea of where to draw the line.

Jason Evert

#94. Man has only wisdumb to gain knowledge but God alone has wisdom, for he possesses all knowledge past, present and future and there is not one iota of knowledge that he does not possess or will not possess.

C.R. Lord

#95. Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Antoine Rivarol

#96. As the past has ceased to throw its light upon the future, the mind of man wanders in obscurity.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#97. A good man lives for the joy in life and the happiness of being alive, not shackled to the wants of the future or the regrets of the past.

Carew Papritz

#98. My most profound confidence is however based upon the fact that at the head of Germany there stands a man by his entire development, his desires, and striving can only have been destined by fate to lead our people into a brighter future.

Alfred Jodl

#99. Drake was a fan before a friend. He already was a Cash Money millionaire. When opportunity came, maybe we put the most on the table. That was my thinking because I just thought that this was a very talented young man. We saw a future with him, so it was about him being comfortable.

Birdman

#100. As an old, old man, Trout would be asked by Dr. Thor Lembrig, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, if he feared the future. He would give this reply: 'Mr. Secretary-General, it is the past which scares the bejesus out of me.

Kurt Vonnegut