future

Sammy, wouldn__ you like to add up to something? In the future? Amount to something?___aw. I just figure to roll on, stackin_ days, you know, till the day I fuck up big enough the future gets canceled. Or else all planned out for me, maybe. There__ a somewhat likely chance of that.___an, Sammy, I can__ live thinking that way""Well,I don't think about it.

The novel was set in an unspecified near future, because setting a novel in the present in a time of unprecedented technological and social dislocation seemed to me shortsighted.... To write a book set in the present, circa 2013, is to write about the distant past.

Who you are in Christ is far more important and meaningful than what has taken place in your past.

The past and the future were starlight, seemingly so close, but forever out of reach. Eli felt that starlight, the infinity of knowing nothing but his finite existence.

Remember how far you've come, not just how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but neither are you where you used to be.

The future of mankind is going to be decided within the next two generations, and there are two absolute requisites: We must aim at a stable-state society [with limited population growth] and the destruction of nuclear stockpiles. _ Otherwise I don't see how we can survive much later than 2050.

Stupidity is letting your pride rob you of God__ blessings.

In regards to climbing the ladder of success, there is a better future, with a greater purpose. One can find it, only if he or she searches for it.

Because sometimes people expect more, they expect their desires to be met, they fancy a future built on the pillars of their faith. But love is weak and impermanent and thus when the time comes, the pillars begin to crumble.Then again that doesn__ mean they can__ be built again. They can, they surely can, when the times are favorable and the state of affairs, sound.

But the trouble is, I do want to be surprised. I want to choose. I broke the heart of my fate so that I could choose. I never chose; I only saw a little girl who looked like me standing on a gear at the end of the world and laughing, and that's not choosing, not really. Wouldn't you rather I chose you? Wouldn't you rather I picked our future out of all the others anyone could have?

History was once the future, the future will create history.

Just because the past didn't turn out like you wanted it to, doesn't mean the future can't be better than you ever imagined.

All that matters is this moment and what you make of it, because the past is history and the future is just full of wishes that you can__ foresee.

Just remember - when you think all is lost, the future remains.

Pride is nothing more than false courage without long term solutions.

Present, rather than past, is the mother of future. So, your future must take after your present. But if it resembles more your past, the granny must be a slut!

Man can never go backwards, but his past can light the way for his journey.

The future belongs to those who innovate.