The old futures have a way of hanging around. … Everyone sort of knows that the real future is going to be cluttered with all the same junk we have today, except it will be old and beat up and there will be more of it. —William Gibson More about this quote Tags: presence time future change objects Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again. … The future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul. —J. G. Ballard More about this quote Tags: fear future soul boredom excitement interest Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If we can recognize that change and uncertainty are basic principles, we can greet the future and the transformation we are undergoing with the understanding that we do not know enough to be pessimistic. —Hazel Henderson More about this quote Tags: reality pessimism future perception change uncertainty transformation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
However fashionable despair about the world and about people may be at present, and however powerful despair may become in the future, not everybody, or even most people, thinks and lives fashionably; virtue and honor will not be banished from the world, however many popular moralists and panicky journalists say so. Sacrifice will not cease to be because psychiatrists have popularized the idea that there is often some concealed self-serving element in it; theologians always knew that. Nor do I think love as a high condition of honor will be lost; it is a pattern in the spirit, and people long to make the pattern a reality in their own lives, whatever means they take to do so. —Robertson Davies More about this quote Tags: love virtue future knowledge world popularity despair sacrifice present journalism honor Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for. —Fred Hoyle More about this quote Tags: future knowledge universe plans Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays. —Persius More about this quote Tags: time future past perception fretting Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Never make predictions, especially about the future. —Casey Stengel More about this quote Tags: future error caution predictions Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it. —Ray Bradbury More about this quote Tags: future caution prevention Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I've learned that it's all about choice. You can choose to turn regrets into lessons that change your future. —Ali Harris in The First Last Kiss More about this quote Tags: learning future choice change regret Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes. It is rather hard work: there is now no smooth road into the future. But we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen. —D. H. Lawrence More about this quote Tags: hope future tragedy habit Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Lies are like children: they're hard work, but it's worth it because the future depends on them. —Pam Davis More about this quote Tags: future children lies hard work Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The future will be better tomorrow. —Dan Quayle More about this quote Tags: optimism future better Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I'm optimistic about the future, but not about the future of this civilization. I'm optimistic about the civilization which will replace this one. —James Baldwin More about this quote Tags: optimism future civilization Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Whenever I date a guy, I think, Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with? —Rita Rudner More about this quote Tags: future children dating Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes. —Andy Warhol More about this quote Tags: future fame Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email