Future Quotes - Page 38

Co-operating critics comb the studios like big-league scouts, prepared to spot the art of the future and to take lead in establishing reputations. Art historians stand by ready with cameras and notebooks to make sure every novel detail is safe for the record. The tradition of the new has reduced all other traditions to triviality.

The Future, like a fruitfuller Summer, sits Ripening her Eden silently.

Perhaps the safest prediction we can make about the future is that it will surprise us.

The fact remains that, if the supply of energy failed, modern civilization would come to an end as abruptly as does the music of an organ deprived of wind.

Tell me what your vision of the future and I will tell you what you are.

The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.

To relinquish a present good through apprehension of a future evil is in most instances unwise ... from a fear which may afterwards turn out groundless, you lost the good that lay within your grasp.

As fathers, we know what a force for life children can be. They represent all of our futures.

What we look for does not come to pass; God finds a way for what none foresaw.

of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.

The unpredictability inherent in human affairs is due largely to the fact that the by-products of a human process are more fateful than the product.

The future may be an enemy. Time can turn happy days and nights into nothing.

That what will come, and must come, shall come well.

One may say that predictions are dangerous particularly for the future. If the danger involved in a prediction is not incurred, no consequence follows and the uncertainty principle is not violated.

City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

The longest and most destructive party ever held is now into its fourth generation and still no one shows any signs of leaving. The problem of when the drink is going to run out is, however, going to have to be faced one day. The planet over which they are floating is no longer the planet it was when they first started floating over it. It is in bad shape

In my brief glimpse of what is to come I realize how little I care to witness it. I have seen the future and I'm fairly relieved to say, it looks nothing like me.

This society believed it was looking towards a new future, yet we consistently find ourselves being dragged backwards.

People say I'm cocky, but am I supposed to sit here and be insecure and not know where my future's going or not realize that moviemaking is the greatest thing to happen to me?

Freedom brings opportunity, opportunity makes your future.

Who heeds not the future will find sorrow at hand

You can't base your life on the past or the present. You have to tell me about your future.

The future you have, tomorrow, won't be the same future you had, yesterday.

The future can be anything we want it to be, providing we have the faith and that we realize that peace, no less than war, required blood and sweat and tears.

If that marvellous microcosm, man, with all the costly cargo of his faculties and powers, were indeed a rich argosy, fitted out and freighted only for shipwreck and destruction, who amongst us that tolerate the present only from the hope of the future, who that have any aspirings of a high and intellectual nature about them, could be brought to submit to the disgusting mortifications of the voyage?