937 private quotes tagged future

“We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still.” — Lewis Thomas

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“Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.” — Lester Bangs

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“Without wisdom, the future has no meaning, no valuable purpose.” — Herbie Hancock

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“The future is too interesting and dangerous to be entrusted to any predictable, reliable agency. We need all the fallibility we can get. Most of all, we need to preserve the absolute unpredictability and total improbability of our connected minds. That way we can keep open all the options, as we have in the past.” — Lewis Thomas

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“While we can remember the past, we cannot write the future. Only our children, the future of our community, can do that.” — Jonathan Sacks

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“The future is going to be boring. The suburbanisation of the planet will continue, and the suburbanisation of the soul will follow soon after.” — J. G. Ballard

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“The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify the future.” — Jorge Luis Borges

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“The future of Indo-Pak cricket will depend on how the peace process goes.” — Imran Khan

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“Rather than waiting for future trials to determine rules that will impact every citizen, Congress should step in and write a law that takes every American's rights into consideration.” — Ron Wyden

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“It's about time we make the well-being of our young people more important than ideology and politics. As a country, we benefit from investing in their future by investing in teen pregnancy prevention.” — Jane Fonda

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“We need the help of other member countries and leaders who, like us, want to see a change in Europe's direction. That's also my logic when I tell voters that electing me president will not only shape France's future, but also initiate change across all of Europe.” — Francois Hollande

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“Blowing up buses will not induce the Israelis to move forward, and neither will the killing of Palestinians or the demolition of their homes and their future. All this needs to stop. And we pledge that Jordan will do its utmost to help achieve it.” — King Abdullah II

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“Habitual texters may not only cheat their existing relationships, they can also limit their ability to form future ones since they don't get to practice the art of interpreting nonverbal visual cues.” — Jeffrey Kluger

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“I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did.” — Elia Kazan

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“We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work.” — Anna Freud

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“There's no point in making predictions. It's not worth speculating because nothing is set in stone and things change all the time in football. Today there are opportunities that no one knows if they will come round again in the future.” — Cristiano Ronaldo

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“That is now my mission: to provide a European vision of growth, employment, prosperity - in one word, our future.” — Francois Hollande

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“Between France and Senegal there's a history. There's a language that we both speak. There's a culture that we share and to which both of our peoples have contributed. But beyond our history, beyond our language, beyond the links that have united us for so long, what unites us today is the future.” — Francois Hollande

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“There are hurdles, there are handicaps, hardships you have to face in life, but you hope for a great future.” — Anil Kapoor

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“The impressions of the spriritual experiences gave my future life its form and content.” — Gustav Mahler

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“I am only 33, I've got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. I'm looking forward to the future and I'm proud about the past.” — Ice Cube

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“The incentive that you give to your youth is going to be the make-or-break future of the country.” — King Abdullah II

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“Think about it: Reducing crime and poverty and ensuring that we have an educated, stable work force has a direct effect on you and me and the future of our country.” — Jane Fonda

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“What we're discussing privately and publicly, is a budget which is a blueprint for the future which creates jobs, which educates our children, which provides healthcare for all Americans, which takes our deficit down, which gives a tax cut for 95% of the American people.” — Nancy Pelosi

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“To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.” — Robert M. Pirsig

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