Top 100 Quotes About Futures
#1. The families I continue to hurt and leave broken break me, and the ghostly remains that linger through the aftermath of their shattered futures reflect back and crack the mirror of my own soul." - Rosetta
Ryan Hill
#2. Surrounding yourself with people who are actively and enthusiastically working toward their best futures will keep you moving toward your own goals.
Leah Busque
#3. Teaching money management is a practical tool that will help shape kids' futures.
Bill Rancic
#4. As an act of goodwill you must sacrifice all the futures you might have for the one that he designs for you.
Dexter Palmer
#5. Each of us must rededicate ourselves to serving the common good. We are a community. Our individual Fates are linked; our futures intertwined; and if we act in that knowledge and in that spirit together, as the Bible says: "We can move mountains."
Jimmy Carter
#6. All cats can see futures, and see echoes of the past. We can watch the passage of creatures from the infinity of now, from all the worlds like ours, only fractionally different. And we follow them with our eyes, ghost things, and the humans see nothing.
Neil Gaiman
#7. Our individual fates are linked our futures intertwined
Jimmy Carter
#8. And the reason I am so nervous is that everything I do now is leading me to one of three possible futures ... Which one will it be? Time alone will tell. But still I know that writing this diary can perhaps provide the answer; it may even help produce the right future.
Adolfo Bioy Casares
#9. Let us acknowledge and celebrate what youth can do to build a safer, more just world. Let us strengthen our efforts to include young people in policies, programmes and decision-making processes that benefit their futures and ours.
Ban Ki-moon
#10. Elections are futures markets in stolen property.
H.L. Mencken
#11. There is something beautiful and redeeming about the humans. Although we, and indeed all magical creatures, always follow our nature, humans can choose to overcome it. In that sense they are in greater control of their futures than any of us.
Joseph Barone
#12. You have the most important job of anyone today. Our kids need you to advocate for their futures.
George Lucas
#13. Please make this nation remember how futures are built
Mario Cuomo
#14. But Iorek and Iofur were more than just two bears. There were two kinds of beardom opposed here, two futures, two destinies. Iofur had begun to take them in one direction, and Iorek would take them in another, and in the same moment, one future would close forever as the other began to unfold.
Philip Pullman
#15. Obama seems to inspire a bizarre personal loyalty among his advocates, particularly among young people who should by all rights be concerned with their fading futures and collapsing prospects.
Ben Shapiro
#16. Learn how to think a few moves ahead at once. In life, if you can anticipate the human mind, you can anticipate all possible futures.
Lionel Suggs
#17. The visions are fragmented and a dark cloud spreads like spilt ink across the pages of possible futures.
Garth Nix
#18. I wanted to rock back and forth between myth and distant futures, yesterday, today, and tomorrow. It felt a bit like prophecy and a bit like storytelling.
George Murray
#19. Temptation only works if the possible futures open to you are concealed. Consequences, including those of Judgment Day, must be hidden from view or outright denied.
Russell D. Moore
#20. Or maybe ... just maybe this whole process is our training wheels towards something bigger. If we can reflect and know our lives, we might stay awake and shape our futures.
Chuck Palahniuk
#21. If minds are truly alive they will seek out books, for books are the human race recounting its memorable experiences, confronting its problems, searching for solutions, drawing the blueprints of it futures.
Harry Allen Overstreet
#22. Remember, the goal of structured futures thinking is to come up with a picture of possible futures that will help to inform strategic decisions.
Jamais Cascio
#23. We have the ability to construct our own futures, albeit not in circumstances of our own choosing
Steven Pinker
#24. I mean, the nation in which we live - and the world in which we live - is so extraordinarily more like a future than the futures that we're being sold on the screen and on television.
Junot Diaz
#25. If we destroy their environments and communities, we will lose the answers they have to solving our problems, and to the protection of our common futures.
Raul Montenegro
#26. There are no plans, just people fooling themselves by attempting to design their fates and futures. It makes them feel invincible, even if it's for a transient period of time.
Kanza Javed
#27. And that's what I liked about it, because they are, in the beginning, your little beautiful stock figures, who then make a decision to preserve their futures, but the decision they make isn't completely right, and it destroys their futures.
Kevin Williamson
#28. There are no good futures. There's nothing to head towards but more garish, unsustainable carnival acts.
Warren Ellis
#29. Mathematics tells us that knowledge of all infinite futures is not possible - is this why bad things happen?
Has science killed God?
R.J. Hogarth
#31. What a blessing it is we cannot see our futures.
Sarah Bower
#32. The futures of Crackle and Hulu and so forth become more and more important as we connect to more and more devices. We need our content to make our services as attractive as Apple's or Amazon's or Microsoft's. We're in a brave new world of fierce competition.
Howard Stringer
#33. In each of us there is internal knowledge, a gentle voice, beckoning us
toward well-being. It tells us to let go, to stay in the river of present experience, not to dam up our lives by worrying about potential futures or bemoaning past mistakes.
Marcey Shapiro
#34. I could never write about strange kingdoms. I could never do 'Harry Potter' or anything like that. Even when I did science-fiction, I didn't write about foreign planets and distant futures. I certainly never did fantasies about trolls living under bridges.
Richard Matheson
#35. In a nutshell, this United Nations non-profit organization [World Food Programme] feeds millions of starving children at schools in third world countries as an incentive for them to attend school, which in turn might better their futures. They do so much more but I was so struck by this story.
Sheryl Crow
#36. Yes, life is weird, but I embrace the weird. Let everyone else go marching off into their great shining futures if they want. Me, I've always been more than content to tip my whisky bottle and take a ride straight into the heart of the spectacular now.
Tim Tharp
#38. All of our futures," she said, "exist in the Internet.
Lauren Groff
#39. Instead of writing backwards over what had happened, giving structure and meaning to his story, he wrote forwards, slipping into troubling futures.
Alan McCluskey
#40. We rob ourselves when we make decisions in the moment with no thought of how those decisions will impact our futures.
Andy Stanley
#41. Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
Audre Lorde
#42. My dad was Chinese-American and very conservative when it came to his family's futures. He said if I wanted to have a secure job, I should go into science. So I did what Dad said and went to medical school, but the writing bug never left me.
Tess Gerritsen
#43. We surely know by some nameless instinct more about our futures than we think we know.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#44. The evolution of one's own soul is a process. It's not a quick fix. It's not a five-day workshop. It's a lifetime process where we let go, discover and then allow for futures to come into existence.
Debbie Ford
#45. Though we tremble before uncertain futures
may we meet illness, death and adversity with strength
may we dance in the face of our fears.
Gloria E. Anzaldua
#46. The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.
Neil Gaiman
#47. People do not decide their futures, they decide their habits and their habits decide their futures.
F. Matthias Alexander
#48. Quantum science suggests the existence of many possible futures for each moment of our lives. Each future lies in a state of rest until it is awakened by choices made in the present.
Gregg Braden
#49. Your memories are eroding away. The futures you anticipate, will mostly not come to pass, and the real richness is in the moment. And it's not necessarily some kind of 'Be Here Now' feel-good thing because it doesn't always feel good. But it always feels. It is a domain of feeling. It's primary.
Terence McKenna
#50. Dreamt all night of horticulture prospects of
in northland futures for horticulturalists versed
in cut-ups developing new strains new fruits
as for example "tremeloes
Wystan Curnow
#51. Ultimately, if people lose their willingness to recognize that there are times in our history when legality becomes distinct from morality, we aren't just ceding control of our rights to government, but our agency in determining our futures.
Edward Snowden
#52. He was indulgent toward the open spaces of other men's futures, but he was impatient with the shuttered quarters of their pasts.
Eleanor Catton
#53. The images of his infinite pasts and infinite futures washed over him as he waited, paralyzed, in the present.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#54. Teaching high school in an inner-city school is not an easy task. Every teacher is responsible for 150 teenagers. The amount of work is just mind-boggling. Remember, you're not just doing a job. You have these kids' futures in your hand; you have to inspire them.
Tony Danza
#55. Without defenses, people have no way of finding meaning in their experiences, lose their capacity to remember, and have difficulty imagining reasonable futures. One
Neil Postman
#56. [A lesser light asked Ummon Are there multiple futures Ummon answered Does a dog have fleas]
Dan Simmons
#57. She taught me the pointlessness of wishing for a different past and the futility of worrying about all of the frightening futures over which I had no control.
James R. Doty
#58. Do we miss not only the past but every future the lost past describes? Is that just the nature of missing? All the lost might-have-beens? The certainty that those uncertain futures are gone? If we can't embrace uncertainty do we miss the point of love?
Mark Z. Danielewski
#59. Danger cups us under its hand, and we can do nothing but stand witness to the turning of the world. Here we walk on the balancing line between futures. Humanity always believes it decides the fate of the whole world, and so it does, but never in the moment that it thinks it does.
Robin Hobb
#60. I'll project myself into several futures simultaneously," I should have said, "a minor tremor in my hand; I'll work my way from irony to sincerity in the sinking city, a would-be Whitman of the vulnerable grid.
Ben Lerner
#61. The truth that our futures are so often determined not by some grand design or deliberate strategy but by an ordinary run-of-the-mill head cold.
Catherine Gilbert Murdock
#62. Everything - our lives, our loves, our futures - hinges on one word alone: IF.
A.G. Howard
#63. The problem with a purely collective system is not only that it requires economic growth, and the right sort of demographic trends, but that it prevents people thinking about their futures in a responsible way.
Jacques Delors
#64. Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
Honore De Balzac
#65. What SF can do better than anything else is show us the range of our possible futures, and what we can do to realize the good ones and avoid the nasty ones.
Stanley Schmidt
#66. There's no set futures, only the one we make. - Marina / Seven
Pittacus Lore
#67. Soothsayers are like that. They see many futures but never their own.
Jasper Fforde
#68. In such seconds of decision entire futures are made.
Dan Simmons
#69. Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.
John Berger
#70. The dead leave their shadows, an echo of the space within which once they lived. They haunt us, never fading or growing older as we do. The loss we grieve is not just their futures but our own.
Kate Mosse
#71. We build our futures together, in the words we exchange today.
Sherwood Fleming
#72. Sometimes movies that I'm in that I have a leading role don't necessarily get the biggest release, so it's a difficult thing between balancing indies that have uncertain futures and maybe larger films that have guaranteed releases that you have a smaller part in.
Gillian Jacobs
#73. This is how you hold onto your family. You hold them with open hands so they are free to find futures of their own. It's just that simple.
Richard Peck
#74. What a community erects on its historical landscape not only sums up its view of the past but also influences its possible futures.
James W. Loewen
#75. In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and plural at a lower cost. If you cannot accurately predict the future then you must flexibly be prepared to deal with various possible futures.
Edward De Bono
#76. Better take the keys and drive forever. Staying won't put these futures back together. All the perfect drugs and superheroes wouldn't be enough to bring me back to zero.
Aimee Mann
#77. They talked, too, of their futures, as if they could shape the glittering course of their destinies with secret confessions offered like prayers to the room's benevolent hush.
Libba Bray
#78. Visions are possibilities. Actions are the only thing able to determine our futures.
Jacquelyn Frank
#79. The ones who lived, who truly lived, they make an imprint on our lives. They leave their mark in our hearts. They change the course of our fates and our destinies. Those are the real heroes. The ones who cared enough for a human being that they rewrote their futures."
- Alastor Moody
Mordred
#80. We are symbolic. We are driving to the edge of the city and talking in vague-yet-resolute certainties about our dreams and our futures. We are leaving certain things in the medicine cabinet. We are falling in love.
Pete Wentz
#81. All of the jobs have gone away to satisfy the stockholders, so that's where the economy has gone. These major multinational corporations do not see their futures in America.
Henry Rollins
#82. Accommodation to change, the thoughtful pursuit of alternative futures are keys to the survival of civilization and perhaps of the human species.
Carl Sagan
#83. I've been accused countless times of writing gloomy futures. But to me, the texture of my sci-fi just feels like an extrapolation of current trends.
Richard K. Morgan
#84. Now we stand at our own crossroads, looking out upon two futures: one with rising temperatures, rising oceans, and rising violence on a hot and strip-mined planet and another with expanding organic harvests, growing solar arrays, and deepening global partnerships on a green and thriving Earth.
Van Jones
#85. Guy Lafleur said "Each of us has only one past but there are many futures".
Billy Graham
#86. So many bright futures consigned to the ashes of the past.So many dreams lost in the madness that had engulfed us.Except for a few widely scattered shouts of joy,the survivors of the abyss sat hollow-eyed and silent, trying to comprehend a world without war.
Paul Fussell
#87. Entrepreneurship is rapidly emerging as a pillar of modern economic development, with cities, states, and countries coming to understand that their futures depend on new people creating new businesses that, in turn, create new jobs.
David S. Rose
#88. I think dystopian futures are also a reflection of current fears.
Lauren Oliver
#89. [Percy] kept hoping things would get better for Annabeth and him, but their lives just got more dangerous, as if the Three Fates were up there spinning their futures with barbed wire instead of thread just to see how much two demigods could tolerate.
Rick Riordan
#90. No matter what we predict for our futures, we're always wrong anyway. The only sensible thing to do is to live this life as it is right now. Leave what happens after you die till after you die.
Brad Warner
#91. What could be duller than past history!' Therese said, smiling. 'Maybe futures that won't have any history.
Patricia Highsmith
#92. Men screamed as she opened them and let their futures spill out.
Jonathan Maberry
#93. Forecasting our futures is built into our psyches because we will soon have to manage that future. We have no choice. No matter how often we fail, we can never stop trying.
Alan Greenspan
#94. She wasn't interested in telling other people's futures. She was interested in going out and finding her own.
Maggie Stiefvater
#95. I lived in an enclave in which our oldest had seen twenty-five years. His face was withered, and his fingers shook when he attempted the smallest tasks. Some whispered it would be a kindness to kill him, but they meant they didn't want to see their futures written in his skin.
Ann Aguirre
#96. There are many futures, not just one. Life is not like walking down the road and meeting the predetermined events.
Akemi G
#97. To hope is to gamble. It's to bet on your futures, on your desires, on the possibility that an open heart and uncertainty is better than gloom and safety. To hope is dangerous, and yet it is the opposite of fear, for to live is to risk.
Rebecca Solnit
#98. I want to help change the way young people look at school, and hence, the way they look at their futures.
Kanye West
#99. Reliance in its purest, highest, form is a code to live by: That every life matters. Every future matters. Taking care of each other matters. And our shared purpose is to create amazing futures for our children's children.
Bill Jensen
#100. It is true that we are in charge of our imaginations, and by using them to imagine wonderful futures for ourselves, and by acting on that basis, it will follow, unerringly, that for us, it will be so.
Wu Wei
