Top 100 What Will Be Sayings
#1. I must analyze, from what I do now, what will be the impact two or three or five years in the future. What is the statement I want to make?
Yuri Milner
#2. Money does not smell of the mire whence it came; it has the glorious scent of what will be.
Catulle Mendes
#3. Some men never seem to grow old. Always active in thought, always ready to adopt new ideas, they are never chargeable with foggyism. Satisfied, yet ever dissatisfied, settled, yet ever unsettled, they always enjoy the best of what is, are the first to find the best of what will be.
William Shakespeare
#4. It's 2010. I'm forty-three years old. I've just turned in the final draft of what will be my third novel when I decide I want a tattoo. Maybe it's a middle-age thing. Or maybe now that my kids are nearly grown and I have a career in place, I'm finally coming into my own.
Therese Fowler
#5. I am the most curious of all to see what will be the next thing that I will do.
Jacques Lipchitz
#6. And it is a wonder what will be the fashion after the plagueisdoneastoperiwigs, fornobody will daretobuy any haire for fear of the infectionthat it had been cut off the heads of people dead of the plague.
Samuel Pepys
#7. My goal is to get people thinking and trying to wrap their heads around the amazing things that have been achieved and to dream about what will be achieved.
Neil Turok
#8. Katniss ... how do you think this will end? What will be left? No one is safe. Not in the Capitol. Not in the districts. And you ... in Thirteen ... " He inhales sharply, as if fighting for air; his eyes look insane. "Dead by morning!
Suzanne Collins
#9. who would cry out to the petals on the ground to stay, knowing as we must, how the vivacity of what was is married to the vivacity of what will be?
Mary Oliver
#10. They said that war will be the solution to end the conflict and problems, but they never said what will be the solution for the problems and conflicts created by the war itself.
Shrey Srivastava
#11. We are never at home, we are always beyond. Fear, desire, hope, project us toward the future and steal from us the consideration of what is, to busy us with what will be, even when we shall no longer be."
-from "Our feelings reach out beyond us
Michel De Montaigne
#12. Nothing is original. It says it right there in the Bible. Ecclesiastes:
That which has been is what will be, That which is done is what will be done, And there is nothing new under the sun.
Every new idea is just a mashup or a remix of previous ideas.
Austin Kleon
#13. No one saves an e-mail, because it's so inherently impersonal. I worry about posterity in general. All the great love letters - from Simone de Beauvoir to Sartre, from Samuel Clemens to his wife, Olivia - I don't know, I always think about what will be lost -
Gillian Flynn
#14. Long for me as I for you, forgetting, what will be inevitable, the long black aftermath of pain.
Malcolm Lowry
#15. It is harder to lie in an interview. A good interview - and it can be polite - is not a one way street like a candidate controlled ad. An interview is not programmed by the candidate and so the candidate can't be exactly sure what will be asked.
Greta Van Susteren
#16. I am forever grateful for not knowing - What would have been. WHAT WILL BE holds none of those bittersweet pangs and it is lit w joy.
Erica Goros
#17. The most compelling reason for most people to buy a computer for the home will be to link it to a nationwide communications network. We're just in the beginning stages of what will be a truly remarkable breakthrough for most people - as remarkable as the telephone.
Steve Jobs
#18. Never worry about what has been done. Only about what will be.
Joe Abercrombie
#19. What will be the good of the conquest of leisure and health, if no one remembers how to use them?
Bertrand Russell
#20. The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.
Paul Klee
#21. The only true free-thinker is he whose intellect is as much free from the future as from the past. He cares as little for what will be as for what has been; he cares only for what ought to be. And for my present purpose I specially insist on this abstract independence.
G.K. Chesterton
#22. Each of us may think we know exactly what we need to make us happy, what will be good for us, what will ensure we have our happy ending, but life rarely works out in the way we expect, and our happy ending may have all sorts of unexpected twists and turns, be shaped in all sorts of unexpected ways
Jane Green
#23. Who so desireth to know what will be hereafter, let him think of what is past, for the world hath ever been in a circular revolution; whatsoever is now, was heretofore; and things past or present, are no other than such as shall be again: Redit orbis in orbem.
Walter Raleigh
#24. I do not know what will be the end of it.
Ann Rinaldi
#25. Subtract from the New Testament the miraculous and highly impossible, and what will be the remainder?
George Eliot
#26. What is has been. What will be is no more than a forgotten year striking backward.
Rudyard Kipling
#27. want to either. We take what is offered us on this earth and live life to the fullest. No one can predict their own future, though many have tried. What will be is what will be in the end. You cannot change the course of time." The king patted Nicholas
Robyn Neeley
#28. Most actors are very grateful for what is as opposed to what will be. You spend 98% of your time looking for a job, so when you get it, it's fantastic.
Brian D'Arcy James
#29. What will be and what will not be are equally possible and impossible, Liv explained.
Kami Garcia
#30. Once we've become Gods,
And Superheroes,
and Spidermen(ed) through the web of potential,
what will be next?
Natasha Tsakos
#31. What will be will be, so your determination is just extra-ordinary participant .
Osunsakin Adewale
#32. Over the next 20 to 30 years, we are going to end up with world government. It's inevitable ... There's going to be conflict, coercion and consensus. That's part of what will be required as we give birth to the first global civilization.
Jim Garrison
#33. Then what he said and how he said it won't be important any more. What will be important are all the things you never got to say.
Sarra Manning
#34. All of us have secrets in our lives. We're keepers or keptfrom, players or played. Secrets and cockroaches - that's what will be left at the end of it all.
Maggie Stiefvater
#35. Surrender to what is. let go of what was. have faith in what will be.
Sonia Ricotti
#36. He will wipe the tears from all faces.' It takes nothing from the loveliness of the verse to say that is exactly what will be required
Marilynne Robinson
#37. The life of a model is so varied that I never know what will be happening from one week to the next.
Amber Le Bon
#38. We're just getting started. We're just beginning to meet what will be the future-we've got the Model T.
Grace Hopper
#39. We were the first generation to have, in our own homes, the means to re- and forward-wind reality: even very small children could press their fingers against those clunky buttons and see what-has-been become what-is or what-will-be.
Zadie Smith
#40. But does it make any difference now?" he thought. "And what will be there, and what has been done here? Why was I so sorry to part with life? There was something in this life I didn't and still don't understand...
Leo Tolstoy
#41. Learn the rules and learn the game, before you start breaking the rules and changing the game.
Your education, experience and understanding of what was and what is, will give you the best foundation to change what will be.
Loren Weisman
#42. What will be left of all the fearing and wanting associated with your problematic life situation that every day takes up most of your attention? A dash, one or two inches long, between the date of birth and date of death on your gravestone.
Eckhart Tolle
#43. Practical atheism, seeing no guidance for human affairs but its own limited foresight, endeavors itself to play the god, and decide what will be good for mankind and what bad.
Herbert Spencer
#44. You can plan all you want, but you will never know what will be. Life just is, and I am here in it. I am waiting for what comes next.
Elizabeth Scott
#45. Tragedy often gives birth to courage, it offers man a platform to change what will be.
Eli Storm, Emanuel Stone And The Phoenix Shadow
Isaac Solomon
#46. Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.
Khalil Gibran
#47. I don't know what will be more painful. Staying away from her so she doesn't find out, or telling her the truth and ruining her life all over again. - Dean Holder
Colleen Hoover
#48. He will take you back, and he will destroy you. "I bring change," Rand said sadly. "Not peace, but turmoil." Destruction follows on my heels everywhere. Will there ever be anywhere I do not tear apart? "What will be, will be, Rhuarc. I can't change it.
Robert Jordan
#49. What was there when nothing began, what will be there when everything ends?
Varun Bhat
#50. The slothful are always ready to engage in idle talk of what will be done tomorrow, and every day after.
John Lyly
#51. What will be the death of me are buillabaisses, food spiced with pimiento, shellfish, and a load of exquisite rubbish which I eat in disproportionate quantities.
Emile Zola
#52. She smiles. "You know you can do nothing. What will be, will be. If there is a battle" - I gasp but her smile is steady - "if there is a battle, then either your husband will win, and your son will take the throne; or your brother will win and you will be sister to the king.
Philippa Gregory
#53. I have no control over a film. I don't know what will be left on the cutting floor.
Judi Dench
#54. Knowing as we must, how the vivacity of what was is married to the vitality of what will be? I don't say it's easy, but what else will do
Mary Oliver
#55. Democratic nations care but little for what has been, but they are haunted by visions of what will be.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#57. What will be the crown of those who, humble within and humiliated without, have imitated the humility of our Savior in all its fullness!
Bernadette Soubirous
#58. All our anxieties relate to time ... The major problems of psychiatry revolve around an analysis of the despair, pessimism, melancholy, and complexes that are the inheritances of what has been or with the fears, anxieties, worries, that are the imaginings of what will be.
Fulton J. Sheen
#59. Earthly things will pass away. They will pass away and what will be left is my Savior.
Kelly O'Connor McNees
#60. We live between two dense clouds; the forgetting of what was and the uncertainty of what will be.
Anatole France
#61. When a photographer chooses a subject, he or she is making a claim on the interest and attention of future viewers, a prediction about what will be thought to have been important.
Frank Gohlke
#62. I am always wearing a mask, playing a character. Perhaps because I'm afraid of what will be under the mask, something ugly maybe or, worse, nothing at all. The
Anna Snoekstra
#63. The tax which will be paid for the purpose of education is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings, priests and nobles who will rise up among us if we leave the people in ignorance
Thomas Jefferson
#64. Sometimes we don't know how afraid we are until we've reached a strange door and we don't know what will be on the other side.
Lauren DeStefano
#65. Margrethe: And when all our eyes are closed, when even the ghosts have gone, what will be left of our beloved world? Our ruined and dishonoured and beloved world?
Michael Frayn
#66. I am the woman who lost herself but now is found, the lesbian, outside the law of the church and man, the one who has to love herself or die. If you are not as strong as I am, what will be make together? I am all muscle and wounded desire, and I need to know how strong we both can be.
Dorothy Allison
#67. Your imagination is more real that then the world you see, because the world you see comes from what you imagine and believe! What you believe and feel to be true is what will be your life.
Rhonda Byrne
#68. SUCCESS: IS THE UNCONDITIONAL ACCEPTANCE OF LIFE AND WHAT IT BRINGS.. Doris Day said:What will be will be. =)
A. R D.D M.G.
#69. Either way, what has happened, has happened, what will be, will be. I just don't know how it will end, or whether i will survive the journey.
Indigo Bloome
#70. Blessed is He, and may He be blessed from the beginning and for evermore. And before Him there is no ceasing. He knows before the world was created what is for ever and what will be from generation unto generation.
Jay Winter
#71. I had such an amazing time filming 'Major Movie Star.' I loved everyone in the cast. They all brought their own spirit to the film, and I hope that is what will be seen on screen.
Olesya Rulin
#72. Maybe it is that if these stones speak at all, they speak true,' she said softly. 'They speak what will be, not what we want to hear.
Barbara Erskine
#73. What will be will be well - for what is is well,
To take interest is well, and not to take interest is well.
Walt Whitman
#74. Better it is toward the right conduct of life to consider what will be the end of a thing, than what is the beginning of it: for what promises fair at first may prove ill, and what seems at first a disadvantage, may prove very advantageous.
H.G.Wells
#75. It's hard to know what [literature] will end up being timeless and what will be something that doesn't translate into the future, especially with the way we're evolving since our culture is changing so fast.
Rick Riordan
#76. Take what comes and live life without complaint. What will be, will be. Life is a woman's gift; death is God's.
Nancy McKenzie
#77. We must recognize and nurture the creative parts of each other without always understanding what will be created.
Audre Lorde
#78. You never know what will be expected of you, so you just go out and play.
Manu Ginobili
#79. Remember, this is the time of the cockatrice. It has hatched from its egg. So who now dares say what will be?
Philip Dodd
#80. I'm curious to see, now that beauty is gone, what will be reflected in a mans eyes.
Sapphire.
#81. You are what you believe you are.We make images in our minds of what will be based on what we believe or want, what we're afraid of." Dr. Woodhouse to Caulder and Ginny
Kristen D. Randle
#82. I say to my colleagues never confine your best work, your hopes, your dreams, the aspiration of the American people to what will be signed by George W. Bush because that is too limiting a factor.
Nancy Pelosi
#83. To envision what will be, you must remove yourself from the constant concern for what already is.
Scott Belsky
#84. Your faith in "what will be" will not only empower you to let go "what was", but it will also encourage you to accept "what is" existing now! Have faith in God; His plans are to prosper you, not to harm you!
Israelmore Ayivor
#85. At any moment, man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monument of his existence.
Viktor E. Frankl
#86. I love the unknown. I love the discovery of what will be happening and just kind of sitting back and not knowing.
Jennifer Aniston
#87. And what will be there, and what has there been here? Why was I so reluctant to part with life? There was something in this life I did not and do not understand.
Leo Tolstoy
#88. We live, my dear soul, in an age of trial. What will be the consequence I know not. John Adams, in a letter to Abigail Adams
David McCullough
#89. Science is the study of what Is, Engineering builds what Will Be. The scientist merely explores that which exists, while the engineer creates what has never existed before.
Theodore Von Karman
#90. Well, we're afeared. And what of it? Do we sit down and weep and tremble? Life must go on. And what will be, will be. What is destined can't be avoided, in any case.
Andrzej Sapkowski
#91. On Elsewhere we fool ourselves into thinking we know what will be just because we know the amount of time we have left. We know this, but we never really know what will be. We never know what will happen ...
Gabrielle Zevin
#92. I just want to make my last demand in reverence to the work of what has been done by architects of the past. what was, has always been. what is, has always been. and what will be, has always been. such is the nature of beginning.
Louis Kahn
#93. Life is like a game of whist. I don't enjoy the game much; but I like to play my cards well, and see what will be the end of it.
George Eliot
#94. If we one day cease to exist, what will be remarkable is that we were ever here at all.
Nick Harkaway
#95. awareness of what should be does not always govern the choice of one's heart as to what will be.
C.S. Marks
#96. What has been has been but what will be is what we make of it.
Kristen Ashley
#97. My film school is making movies. But, I do think that being an actor has served me immensely, as both a writer and director, in terms of knowing what is playable and what will be fun to play, for actors, and also how to communicate to actors on set, and not screw them up and get them in their head.
Josh Radnor
#98. I really want my career to be as an actor-writer-director-producer, you know? I don't know what will be stronger than the other.
Danny Strong
#99. We are each in the middle of our own path. We do not know what will be at the end of our story.
Susan W. Tanner
#100. I see that I am to wait for what will be exhibited by death.
Walt Whitman
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