Quotes About Good Futures

#1. There are no good futures. There's nothing to head towards but more garish, unsustainable carnival acts.

Warren Ellis

#2. Strong convictions do not necessarily signal a powerful sense of self: very often quite the opposite. Intensely held beliefs may be no more than a person's unconscious effort to build a sense of self to fill what, underneath, is experienced as a vacuum.

Gabor Mate

#3. 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

#4. You do not get peace by shouting: Peace. Peace is a meaningless word; what we need is a glorious peace.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#5. Knowledge is the seed,
intelligence is the stem,
understanding is the branch,
and wisdom is the fruit.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#6. Friendship is like a stapler,when it is used to bind to pages the pages are bound tightly but when the stapler is used to remove the pin the pages are left torn forever

Abhishek R

#7. For those of us who aren't great with people, we figure that silence is always the safest bet. If you're an introvert, you spend so much of your time wishing that other people would just shut the hell up that you figure you're doing everyone a favor.

David Wong

#8. I never knew words could be so sharp, until the wrong ones cut me

Foz Meadows

#9. Alright, good night," he said, his words a little slurred. "But before I pass out, I want you to know that you're the hottest biscuit this side of the gravy boat.

Erin McCarthy

#10. Dude. I bet you eat it like it's a buffet that's about to close.

Debra Anastasia

#11. 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

#12. Most of us consist of two separated parts, trying desperately to bring themselves together into an integrated soma, where the distinctions between mind and body, feelings and intellect, would be obliterated.

Carl Rogers

#13. The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

Cyril Connolly

#14. When we neglect our Bible study we often feel guilty. When you skip a meal do you feel guilty? No, you feel hungry. The Bible is food for our soul. When we fail to read it we should not feel guilty, we should feel hungry. Guilt is fueled by obligation hunger is fueled by desire.

Tyler Edwards

#15. 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

#16. Time travel would give humanity the ability to alter the past and prune the tree of all possible futures of those branches that had been infected by evil; with enough revisions humans would eventually bring about the one version of history that was fully good.

Dexter Palmer

#17. You hold all of our futures in your hands. So you better make it good.

Jodie Foster

#18. In a world of increasing fakery, genuine people are the sexiest.

Sam Owen

#19. In the mid-1950s Winston Churchill advised his American friends to recognize that Ho Chi Minh was unbeatable, accept his victory, and try to make the best of it. This the Dulles brothers could not do - because they were Americans.

Stephen Kinzer

#20. 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

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

Marion Zimmer Bradley

#22. Teaching is one of the noblest of professions. It requires an adequate preparation and training, patience, devotion, and a deep sense of responsibility. Those who mold the human mind have wrought not for time, but for eternity.

Calvin Coolidge

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

John Steinbeck

#24. 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