937 private quotes tagged future

“Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.” — Simone de Beauvoir

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“Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.” — Lewis B. Smedes

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“I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.” — Bob Dylan

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“I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, 'No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving,' and then you do it.” — Leo Buscaglia

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“If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.” — William James

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“Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.” — Walt Disney

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“As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future, but the exceptions can kill you and climate change is one of those exceptions.” — Al Gore

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“The future is not Big Government. Self-serving politicians. Powerful bureaucrats. This has been tried, tested throughout history. The result has always been disaster. President Obama, your agenda is not new. It's not change, and it's not hope.” — Rush Limbaugh

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“As I have said for many years throughout this land, we're borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the future of human civilization. Every bit of that has to change.” — Al Gore

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“All cities do face similar, significant trends in the future... most importantly global warming and climate change.” — Cate Blanchett

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“Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.” — Alvin Toffler

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“Really, each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket fence up around something. For my generation it was the '50s, and for other generations it will be something else. Change is scary for everyone, as is complexity, contradiction, and an uncertain future.” — Gary Ross

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“One of the most important things that I did to turn my life around was to realize and to accept that from this minute, that's all we have. Everything that happened behind us we cannot change so you might as well look to the future.” — Nick Carter

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“But I think it's more that when you're young, you're invincible, you're immortal - or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you're inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It's fixed. You can't change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest.” — Damien Hirst

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“After all, it's the future of business communication that we're looking toward.” — Jim Barksdale

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“Why does everyone think the future is space helmets, silver foil, and talking like computers, like a bad episode of Star Trek?” — Tracey Ullman

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“When I look at President Obama, I see a leader with a cool head, a caring heart and an open mind, a president who has demonstrated through his demeanor and through his deeds that he is uniquely qualified to heal our divisions, rebuild our nation and lead us to a brighter future together.” — Charlie Crist

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“Such decisions will be far reaching and difficult. But you never lacked courage in the past. Your courage is now needed for the future.” — Gerry Adams

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“I'm not sure what the future holds but I do know that I'm going to be positive and not wake up feeling desperate. As my dad said 'Nic, it is what it is, it's not what it should have been, not what it could have been, it is what it is.'” — Nicole Kidman

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“And yet, I suppose you mourn the loss or the death of what you thought your life was, even if you find your life is better after. You mourn the future that you thought you'd planned.” — Lynn Redgrave

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“My future is righteousness.” — Bob Marley

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“To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.” — Charles J. Givens

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“Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.” — Charles Lindbergh

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“Just what future the Designer of the universe has provided for the souls of men I do not know, I cannot prove. But I find that the whole order of Nature confirms my confidence that, if it is not like our noblest hopes and dreams, it will transcend them.” — Henry Norris Russell

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“When we see the face of a child, we think of the future. We think of their dreams about what they might become, and what they might accomplish.” — Desmond Tutu

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