Quotes and Sayings About Future
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To line only for some unknown future is superficial.
-- Abdul Kalam -
I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson -
The moral imperative to make big changes is inescapable...that what we take for granted may not be here for our children
-- Al Gore -
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Fifteen per cent of the population believe the moon landing was actually staged in a movie lot in Arizona and somewhat fewer still believe the Earth is flat. I think they all get together with the global warming deniers on a Saturday night and party
-- Al Gore -
Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day.
-- Al StewartSource : Song: Genie On A Table Top, Album: Famous Last Words, 1993
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Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won't fall.
-- Al StewartSource : Song: Russians & Americans
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Future's the only flower worth tending in this earth, where I sow my words daily: and you know, these good trees bear fruit round the year, discreetly, moving along the waterways and four seasons of the faithful sun.
-- Alamgir HashmiSource : Alamgir Hashmi (1992). “Sun and moon, and other poems”
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Sustainability is a set of conditions and trends in a given system that can continue indefinitely
-- Alan AtKissonSource : Alan AtKisson (2012). “The ISIS Agreement: How Sustainability Can Improve Organizational Performance and Transform the World”, p.110, Earthscan
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What we see as death, empty space, or nothingness is only the trough between the crests of this endlessly waving ocean. It is all part of the illusion that there should seem to be something to be gained in the future, and that there is an urgent necessity to go on and on until we get it. Yet just as there is no time but the present, and no one except the all-and-everything, there is never anything to be gained—though the zest of the game is to pretend that there is.
-- Alan Watts -
Don't hurry anything. Don't worry about the future. Don't worry about what progress you're making. Just be entirely content to be aware of what is.
-- Alan WattsSource : Mary Schmich (2012). “The Best of Mary Schmich: Selected Writings by the Chicago Tribune's Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary”, p.31, Agate Digital
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If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o'-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death.
-- Alan Watts -
Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people.
-- Albert Camus -
Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.
-- Albert Camus -
A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.
-- Albert Einstein -
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I would not think that philosophy and reason themselves will be man's guide in the foreseeable future; however, they will remain the most beautiful sanctuary they have always been for the select few.
-- Albert Einstein -
There is a case, and a strong case, for that particular form of indolence that allows us to move through life knowing only what immediately concerns us.
-- Alec Waugh -
In adamantine chains shall Death be bound, And Hell's grim tyrant feel th' eternal wound.
-- Alexander Pope -
Oh, blindness to the future! kindly giv'n, That each may fill the circle mark'd by heaven.
-- Alexander Pope -
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The search of our future being is but a needless, anxious, and haste to be knowing, sooner than we can, what, without all this solicitude, we shall know a little later.
-- Alexander Pope -
For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson -
Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler -
Our moral responsibility is not to stop future, but to shape it...to channel our destiny in humane directions and to ease the trauma of transition.
-- Alvin Toffler -
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The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
-- Alvin Toffler -
Rational behavior ... depends upon a ceaseless flow of data from the environment. It depends upon the power of the individual to predict, with at least a fair success, the outcome of his own actions. To do this, he must be able to predict how the environment will respond to his acts. Sanity, itself, thus hinges on man's ability to predict his immediate, personal future on the basis of information fed him by the environment.
-- Alvin Toffler -
Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
In the world we live in everything militates in favor of things that have not yet happened, of things that will never happen again.
-- Andre Breton -
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The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered.
-- Andre Gide -
In the future, everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes.
-- Andy Warhol