Quotes About Futures

#1. Neophyte writers tend to believe that there is something magical about ideas and that if they can just get a hold of a good one, then their futures are ensured.

Lynn Abbey

#2. Some hedge fund managers have made big bucks trading oil futures - George Soros is one.

Gary Weiss

#3. My friend you must understand that time forks perpetually into countless futures. And in at least one of them I have become your enemy. Jorge Luis Borges, The Garden of Forking Paths (1941)

Adrian McKinty

#4. Some people exude their futures, good or bad.

John Steinbeck

#5. To weep not for the way things had once been but for the way things had been supposed to go and did not. People believed that they were haunted by bad memories, but that wasn't the truth. The most sinister hauntings were from unrealized futures.

Michael Koryta

#6. But the task of science fiction is not to predict the future. Rather, it contemplates possible futures.

Anonymous

#7. It is strange how we hold on to the pieces of the past while we wait for our futures.

Ally Condie

#8. You know, the market was down yesterday ... my first thought when I heard-just on a personal basis, when I heard there had been this attack and I saw the futures this morning, which were really in the tank, I thought, Time to buy.

Brit Hume

#9. As fathers, we know what a force for life children can be. They represent all of our futures.

Ewan McGregor

#10. Artists have so much more control of their futures - they don't need to rely so much on major labels or big companies to help them. You have artists like Skrillex that can dominate so much that he gets 5 Grammy nominees, and he's clearly an underground artist.

Steve Aoki

#11. Because we are intelligent creatures-meaning that we are freed from instinctive and patterned behavior to a degree unparalleled in the animal kingdom-we are capable of, and dependent on, using rational choice to decide our futures.

Willard Gaylin

#12. You should know something, Miriam ... God changed our futures yesterday. There's no other explanation for what happened. And it wasn't the first God. If you ever need hlep, you might want to try the second God.

Ted Dekker

#13. It is saying these things that keeps us from falling apart. And maybe by imagining these futures we can make them real, and maybe not, but either way we must imagine them. The light rushes out and floods in.

John Green

#14. All imaginable futures are not equally possible.

Kevin Kelly

#15. People talk about grief as emptiness, but it's not empty. It's full. Heavy. Not an absence to fill. A weight to pull. Your skin caught on hooks chained to rough boulders made of all the futures you thought you'd have.

Elan Mastai

#16. We want all possible things made actual, the perpetual possibility of perfection, the best of all futures all at once.

Dexter Palmer

#17. None of the family had passed the 11-Plus exam, and henceforth cannot be saved, our futures doomed by an undotted i.

Morrissey

#18. We weren't meant to have futures, we were meant to marry them. We weren't meant to have politics, or careers that mattered, or opinions, or lives; we were meant to marry them. If you wanted to be an architect, you married an architect.

Nora Ephron

#19. When she was taken from me it was like the death of a world, an infinite number of futures coming to an end.

John Connolly

#20. 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

#21. Hope is willing to leave unanswered questions unanswered and unknown futures unknown. Hope makes you see God's guiding hand not only in the gentle and pleasant moments but also in the shadows of disappointment and darkness.

Henri Nouwen

#22. Afrofuturism is an intersection of imagination, technology, the future, and liberation. "I generally define Afrofuturism as a way of imagining possible futures through a black cultural lens," says Ingrid LaFleur, an art curator and Afrofuturist.

Ytasha L. Womack

#23. Tokyo in the late 1960s seemed to be like one of the futures that science fiction presents. Here was the proto- super-technology of the future, electronically, robotically, blahblahblah, intercut with traditional Japanese cultural patterns, Shinto patterns.

Ian Watson

#24. Through all the relationship stuff I've gone through in the past few years, I know there are fundamental differences in how men and women view sex and how they view their futures.

Aaron Eckhart

#25. Those focused on the future don't complain about their past; those complaining about their past aren't focused on their futures.

Orrin Woodward

#26. We need our president to be successful because our futures are all tied to the success of America, which means America's government, which means, in essence, the president.

Michael Bloomberg

#27. Time affords us the ability to blame past errors on others while whole heartedly pronouncing our futures successes.

Douglas Adams

#28. Love isn't an act, it's a whole life.
It's staying with [them] now because [they] need you; it's knowing you ... will still care about each other when sex and daydreams, fights and futures - when all that's on the shelf and done with.

Brian Moore

#29. Our responsibility is not to speculate endlessly about the possible futures of our daughter species, but to become, with as much panache as we can afford, their ancestors.

Geoffrey Miller

#30. Positive questions bring out the best in people, inspire positive action, and create possibilities for positive futures.

Diana Whitney

#31. Liz asked me the other day what I thought about twice baked potatoes. How the fuck should I know? Was I supposed to be thinking about twice baked potatoes all this time? Is this where I went wrong? Are grown men supposed to have an opinion about twice baked potatoes?

Tara Sivec

#32. I believe that success brings responsibility. It also does not bring immunity to the consequences of our quickening march towards oblivion. The bottom line is that all of us should be invovled in our own futures to create a world that our children will want to live in.

Harry Chapin

#33. We all have pasts and we all have futures. All we can do is choose to live in one or the other. It doesn't seem to me that there's much point living in the past.

Jayne Ann Krentz

#34. The future was and remains the quintessential American art form. Other nations sit back and let their futures happen; we construct ours. We can let the future happen, or take the trouble to imagine it. We can imagine it dark or bright-and in the long run, that's how it will be.

David Gelernter

#35. Life is a sum of all your choices, wrote Albert Camus. Large or small, our actions forge our futures, hopefully inspiring others along the way.

Howard Schultz

#36. It is capitalism, not Marxism, that trades in futures.

Terry Eagleton

#37. I'm supposed to learn something. A lesson, like in some teenybopper show. I stare at the door and wait for Miley Cyrus to come barreling in, singing tunelessly about our pasts being the key to our futures.

Rachel Harris

#38. I am protecting women's rights, their human right to decide their futures for themselves, and to live their lives as they see fit.

Dr. Willie Parker

#39. A futures contract is a derivative, but the futures exchange doesn't call them 'derivatives,' they call them 'futures.'

Myron Scholes

#40. Futures not achieved are only branches of the past: dead branches.

Italo Calvino

#41. A lot of times when I was short, I would create a level of activity beforehand that would drive the futures ... It's a fun game,

Jim Cramer

#42. The choices of one shape the futures of all.

Timothy Zahn

#43. That's the thing about silences and futures; someone always comes along to fill them in. If you let them.

Carrie Ryan

#44. School feeding not only fills stomachs, but has a proven track record of boosting enrollment, attendance and academic performance. For just pennies a day per child, this program changes lives - and ultimately can impact the futures of poor countries around the world in a profound way.

Drew Barrymore

#45. We have to edge them out of the rankings. That will damage their futures. Permanently.

Veronica Roth

#46. We can seize this future together because we are not as divided as our politics suggests.

Barack Obama

#47. They lived for different futures, but they were each other's unrecognized halves, and what fascination between them did come to pass was lit up, beyond question, with grace.

Thomas Pynchon

#48. Novels set in imaginary futures are necessarily about the moment in which they are written.

William Gibson

#49. Science fiction encourages us to explore ... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

#50. the taste for Victorian-era sci-fi futures is more than anything else a nostalgia for the last moment, before the carnage of World War I, when everyone could safely feel a redemptive future was possible.

David Graeber

#51. we sometimes imagine dark futures just to scare our own pants off.

Daniel M. Gilbert

#52. As Gary walks down the hallway, I think of how funny it is that the most unlikely person sometimes becomes your ally. And how a blond girl can make you think futures are something to look forward to.

Simone Elkeles

#53. Life can be lived at a remove. You trade in futures, and then you trade in derivatives of futures. Banks make more money trading derivatives than they do trading actual commodities.

Sebastian Faulks

#54. The point of history, the very essence of it as a field of study, is to find correspondences. You look at the past so that you can understand it, and through it you come to a better understanding of your own time. If you're lucky, sometimes you can even extrapolate to possible futures." "I'm not

M.R. Carey

#55. We are simply two good people with equally flawed pasts, looking for perfect futures.
And I think we've found it, in each other.

K.A. Tucker

#56. He'd undone all he could. You can be sorry, and you can be forgiven, but you can't call back the futures that your bad decisions lost

Orson Scott Card

#57. Two strong futures lie ahead, each as possible as the other. It's rare for fate to boil down to two such evenly matched eventualities. Normally the paths of the future are many. When two exist like this, chance decides which the world will take.

Darren Shan

#58. When I think about my children and how different their futures might be as a result of climate change, it makes me determined to do something about it.

David Harewood

#59. If we were all perfect in our pasts, then we'd have nothing to hope for in our futures

Jenny Oliver

#60. we're not human any more. We've slipped out of our skins like lizards, shedding not just our pasts, but our futures.

Irvine Welsh

#61. Within each one of us there is some piece of humanness that knows we are not being served by the machine which orchestrates crisis after crisis and is grinding all our futures into dust.

Audre Lorde

#62. The success of the stock connect program and the increased market volatility means investors are looking for more products to access China markets performance than exchange traded funds, and futures are feeding that rising demand.

Andrew Sullivan

#63. Remember that the future is not somewhere we are going, it is something we are creating. Everyday we do things that make some futures more probable and others less likely.

Ian Lowe

#64. Do you do this because you live such short lives? Tell yourselves wild tales of what might happen tomorrow, and feel all the feelings of events that will never happen? Perhaps to make up for the pasts you cannot recall, you invent futures that will not exist.

Robin Hobb

#65. In the politics of eternity, the seduction by a mythicized past prevents us from thinking about possible futures. The habit of dwelling on victimhood dulls the impulse of self-correction.

Timothy Snyder

#66. Maybe by imagining these futures we can make them real, and maybe not, but either way we must imagine them.

John Green

#67. There are so many futures still to dawn!

Friedrich Nietzsche

#68. Boys will be boys, but girls are supposed to be careful: of our bodies, of our futures, of all the ways people judge us.

Jenny Han

#69. Entrepreneurial business favours the open mind. It favours people whose optimism drives them to prepare for many possible futures, pretty much purely for the joy of doing so.

Richard Branson

#70. In order to counteract income inequality, it's essential to tackle poverty in an integrated way that has long-term impact. We need to give people the capacity to be resilient, to take on challenges and to learn the skills they need to work toward more prosperous futures.

Helene D. Gayle

#71. Guns aren't just history's props and agents: they're history itself, spinning alternate futures in their chamber, hurling the present from their barrel, casting aside the empty shells of past

Tom McCarthy

#72. Some people set them on the white tablecloths in front of them, but most hold the boxes carefully, unwilling to let their futures out of their hands so soon after receiving them.

Ally Condie

#73. Trusting people to pursue their own futures invariably provides better outcomes. Money goes where it is needed, rather than being absorbed by administration costs.

Bill Shorten

#74. Futures thinking is hard work. Fortunately, you do get better at it with practice. It's worth the effort.

Jamais Cascio

#75. He didn't know which he preferred: the Red, with its fatalistic and pious acceptance of all futures, or the Misery, acknowledging that the more you attracted notice, the worse God dealt with you.

Kay Kenyon

#76. We can't point at an image of an evil god, such as Satan, and blame it for our faults and weaknesses. We can't blame fate. Every second of each day we're creating our futures, shaping the courses of our lives.

Scott Cunningham

#77. I felt like I belonged to an ancient tradition of all young people given this same task of finding their own ways through to the futures they wanted for themselves.

Aspen Matis

#78. The futures and ultimate fates of the characters in The Snow Queen are profoundly changed by choices made in their own minds or hearts, as well as choices unexpectedly forced on them by things beyond their control.

Joan D. Vinge

#79. In the 1987 stock market crash, according to the conclusions of the official Brady report, colossal sales of stock index futures by so-called portfolio insurers - whose investment strategies depended entirely on these derivatives - greatly exacerbated the 500-point market decline.

Carol Loomis

#80. Teenagers blithely skip off to uncertain futures, while their parents sit weeping curbside in the Volvo, because the adolescent brain isn't yet formed enough to recognize and evaluate risk.

Michael J. Fox

#81. Instead of looking at leadership as decision making - as a rational process of sifting through data, analyzing trends, and making decisions based on predicting futures - a design framework emphasizes pragmatic experimentation.

Frank J. Barrett

#82. By preventing pneumonia and other diseases, we are giving men, women and children the chance to live healthy productive lives and participate in the global economy. In doing so, we are not only enhancing their futures - we are enhancing our own.

Mandy Moore

#83. I'd paralyzed their lives, their futures. I was like ice, like frost freezing their hopes and dreams. I was the living embodiment of frostbite.

Adrienne Woods

#84. Not all breaks are clean. Sometimes we crumble, sometimes we erode. And those erosions, Eppie-the ones that chip away at our hopes and dreams and out plans for the futures-those are often a lifetime in the making. It's those we must watch out for, my dear.

Megan Squires

#85. And those with dark pasts didn't always yearn for dark futures.

Morgan Rhodes

#86. Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them.

Richard Bach

#87. In a sense, if you're not getting it wrong really a lot when you're creating imaginary futures, then you're just not doing it enough. You're not creating enough imaginary futures.

William Gibson

#88. Jumped in the river, what did I see? Black-eyed angels swam with me A moonful of stars and astral cars And all the figures I used to see All my lovers were there with me All my past and futures And we all went to heaven in a little row boat There was nothing to fear and nothing to doubt

Thom Yorke

#89. I think sci-fi films have become rather bleak, and understandably so - I think we've made some big mistakes globally with how we're developing, and we deal with that guilt by creating these very dystopian futures in films.

Maggie Grace

#90. Life is not so simple. There are many futures. The life of a single person is like a great tree: every branch, every twig, every leaf is a possible future.

David Gemmell

#91. Under the spell of the mighty Carpathians, with the breath of her creation blowing over her heart, Amalia's Gift splintered. She was given two futures: one dark, one bright, the same mortal lover pulling her two-handed into each.
Every step she took lured her closer to the dark.

Shana Abe

#92. It strikes me that this may be one of the differences between youth and age: when we are young, we invent different futures for ourselves; when we are old, we invent different pasts for others.

Julian Barnes

#93. Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures. In one of them I am your enemy.

Jorge Luis Borges

#94. President Obama has called for economic and political empowerment of women globally. The Equal Futures Partnership promotes removal of policy, legal, and regulatory barriers that hold women back at local, state and national levels.

Lael Brainard

#95. After three decades of research, Zimbardo found that the healthiest, happiest, highest performers blend the best of both worlds. The optimal time perspective combines the energy, joy, and openness of Presents, with the strength, fortitude, and long-term vision of the Futures.

Steven Kotler

#96. Humans create their futures every day of every year; only you can alter your worlds.

Janet Morris

#97. Human beings understand themselves and shape their futures by arguing and challenging and questioning and saying the un-sayable, not by bowing the knee whether to gods or to men.

Salman Rushdie

#98. The options and futures traded on exchanges are derivatives contracts.

Carol Loomis

#99. You don't have to be a brilliant historian to know that in Europe, messing with countries' borders, messing with their self-determination, their ability to choose their own futures, this is extremely dangerous, and that's why I think it is important to stand up to Putin.

David Cameron

#100. For years, we've grown dependant on American consumers as the world's spenders of last resort. They've kept Europe out of recession, allowed China to industrialise, and prevented global deflation. But at the same time, they've not been looking after their own futures.

Evan Davis