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Future

«The vast possibilities of our great future will become realities only if we make ourselves responsible for that future.»
«Those who have not shown anything during their responsible life will have nothing to reap in the future»
Author: Gurdjieff | About: Future | Keywords: reap
«The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.»
Author: Paul Valery (Critic, Essayist, Poet) | About: Future
«This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.»
Author: Arthur C. Clarke (Writer) | About: Future | Keywords: ironic
«Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.»
«The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess»
«The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.»
Author: Zora Neale Hurston (Writer) | About: Future, Past, The Present | Keywords: egg, laid, lay-by, shell
«The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.»
«Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present»
«This fight against drilling in the Arctic Refuge is a fight about our principles. It?s about standing up for our environment, our families and our future, and I won?t give up this fight.»