The Probable Future Quotes

#1. Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want.

John Fowles

#2. I have a vast curiosity about our universe, our origins, and its probable future.

Jack Williamson

#3. Thousands of Ohio families are going deeper and deeper in debt just trying to pay their heating bills, fill prescriptions, and buy groceries. The current minimum wage is simply not enough.

Sherrod Brown

#4. It is hard to say what the future holds, but this is probable - it won't be just like the past.

Tony Campolo

#5. To achieve the impossible, you need to first develop the mindset that it's probable. Please don't allow the current limits of your life define your future reality. You deserve so much better. And the world deserves your best.

Robin Sharma

#6. If a man cannot enjoy the return of spring, why should he be happy in a labour-saving Utopia? ... I think that by retaining one's childhood love of such things as trees, fishes, butterflies and ... toads, one makes a peaceful and decent future a little more probable.

George Orwell

#7. In short, no prayer of any human being ever uttered in history ever changed the mind of God in the slightest, because His mind doesn't ever need to be changed.

R.C. Sproul

#8. Men who love the Stones are fixated on cock.

Joe Hill

#9. I had been brooding earlier that morn over my most probable future, which had seemed so dim that I would probably need night vision goggles to see my way through it.

Andrew James Pritchard

#10. We should have stayed on the moon. We should have made moon the base, instead of building space stations, which are fragile and which fly apart.

Ray Bradbury

#11. A small tree with deep roots stands better in turbulence than a large one with shallow roots.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#12. If she could only find a well-educated, Shakespeare-quoting bad boy who still had a thing for sexy tatoos and maybe a mild leather fetish, she might at least have a shot at avoiding her probable future as a crazy old cat lady.

Kendra Leigh Castle

#13. Leave home, leave the country, leave the familiar. Only then can routine experience
buying bread, eating vegetables, even saying hello
become new all over again.

Anthony Doerr

#14. For us in England, the relative value of the pound against the dollar, that has a huge impact on how easy it is to get our films made in the U.K.

Eric Fellner

#15. Love was never a mistake,even when it wasn't returned.

Alice Hoffman

#16. When you're tired, sleep. Don't watch stupid tv or play games on your phone. Sleep, and then get up early, and do the stuff you hope you'll be known for after you die.

Maggie Stiefvater

#17. With all the movies I've done, I still get recognized from my episode of 'Law & Order' more than anything else. It never fails.

Anthony Mackie

#18. A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul, and formed some probable conjectures, that man was designed for a future state of existence.

David Brainerd

#19. Fortify yourself with contentment for this is an impregnable fortress.

Epictetus

#20. All the higher, more penetrating ideals are revolutionary. They present themselves far less in the guise of effects of past experience than in that of probable causes of future experience, factors to which the environment and the lessons it has so far taught us must learn to bend.

William James

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. There is no possibility of failure because you only control your actions and they only influence the probable evolution of your life over stochastic future paths. There is no failure, only feedback.

Arthur De Vany

#24. A person who is psychic is following a line of probability to see a probable future; but it can change. Another causal fact will interfere and that future won't happen.

Frederick Lenz

#25. Maybe being winged means being wounded by infinity.

Li-Young Lee

#26. I've lost control of the simple act of being able to breathe. I'm hyperventilating.
"I don't need you to show me how to breathe," I say.
"You don't?" He looks skeptical.
"I think I can handle the simple act of breathing without you.

Adriana Law

#27. He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.

Thomas Mann