Quotes about Future

You're going to marry me, and I'm going to take you out of here.

Dwelling on the past only defeated her chances for changing the future.

Go ahead! Her eyes shimmered with tears. Laugh! Pulling Kathryn to her feet, he cupped her face tenderly. We will laugh, darlin', right up until we're both old and gray and have a dozen grandchildren. He kissed her firmly. The answer is yes. I'll marry you. He grinned and kissed her again.

The abyss remains. It is pregnant with all the things yet to be. Ah, what gentle violence!

Does the prophet see the future or does he see a line of weakness, a fault or cleavage that he may shatter with words or decisions as a diamond-cutter shatters his gem with a blow of a knife?

Scratch a conservative and you find someone who prefers the past over any future. Scratch a liberal and find a closet aristocrat.

It is not the present which influences the future, thou fool, but the future which forms the present. You have it all backward. Since the future is set, an unfolding of events which will assure that future is fixed and inevitable.

The future is a thing to be shaped, Scytale said. Hold that thought, Princess.

How could he deny the jewels of posterity within his loins?

You have been educated in judgment, which is the essence of worship. Judgment always occurs in the past. It is past-thinking. Will, free or otherwise, is concerned with the future. Thinking is the performance of the moment, out of which you use your judgment to modulate will. You are a convection center through which past prepares future. —Dwarf MacIntosh, Kelpmaster, from Conversations with the Avata

Whoever commits atrocity also commits those future atrocities thus bred.

We are one life reaching out into a dark future.