c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
In another thirty to fifty years, the demand for cheap labor will have produced even more machines over the employment of actual humans. And in that time frame, humans will have lost their voice, their power, all freedoms, and all worth. It is inevitable that machines will one day become the ultimate enemies of mankind. We are not evolving or progressing with our technology, only regressing. Technology is our friend today, but will be our enemy in the future.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
The world since Adam has been white—and corrupt. The world of tomorrow will be black—and righteous. In the white world there has been nothing but slavery, suffering, death and colonialism. In the black world of tomorrow, there will be true freedom, justice and equality for all. And that day is coming—sooner than you think.
— Malcolm X
In the short run, technology many be more efficient than man, but it will never be perfect. Every piece of equipment will eventually reveal an error code. In the long run, man will never be perfect, but prove to be more reliable than technology.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Today's partners can be your competitors tomorrow. And today's competitors can be your partners tomorrow.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Eons ago, the creative genius of God foresaw that it would take the shattered pieces of my ‘yesterday’ to construct the sturdy portal to my ‘tomorrow.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough, Flecks of Gold on a Path of Stone: Simple Truths for Profound Living
Those who are ill informed about change will be at risk for a rough future
— Jason Canton
What's happened has happened. You can't change the past. All you can do is work on making a brighter future.
— Jen Calonita, There's No Place Like Home
If you plan to wake up tomorrow, plan for it.
— Saji Ijiyemi
The cost of electrons and photons is getting cheaper all the time!
— T. Gilling, The STREAM TONE: The Future of Personal Computing?
We are all born equal, and even if we are not, the future is still in our hands.
— Manoj Arora, Dream On
In such seconds of decision entire futures are made
— Dan Simmons
The future is never fixed, but always in flux until the moment it meets with the present.
— Mindee Arnett, The Nightmare Charade
I have the nagging sense that my true friends are waiting for me, beyond college, unusual women whose ambitions are as big as their past transgressions, whose hair is piled high, dramatic like topiaries at Versailles, and who never, ever say "too much information" when you mention a sex dream you had about your father.
— Lena Dunham, Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"
Seduction begins with insinuation, what may happen, not what is, what you may become to the person, not today what you are.
— MD. Muhtashimur Rahman
A prophet is always underestimated, and part of what makes one a prophet is that he doesn't really mind it.
— Criss Jami, Healology
He didn’t fold his arms around her, and he didn’t hold her close. Instead, he gave her a kiss that suggested a future.
— Meredith Marple, The Year Mrs. Cooper Got Out More: A Great Wharf Novel
you ultimately become the one/what you hate.
— Elia Maxwell
He doesn’t see his path clearly, but also doesn’t consider this absolutely necessary; he strikes out in some direction or other, and one thing leads to the next. All paths lead to lives of some sort, and that’s all he requires, for every life promises a great deal and is replete with possibilities enchantingly fulfilled.
— Robert Walser, Looking at Pictures
In your search for a rich or wealthy man to complete you, standup to the challenges of deserving a right man, and what you will have in the end is a well-rounded partner.
— Darmie O-Lujon
The day you stop dreaming, you stop creating the future as well!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
I used to think maybe I wanted to become a falconer, and now I'm sure of it, because I need to figure out the secret. I need to work out how to keep things flying back to me instead of always flying away.
— Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I'm Home
Well, kid, I have seen the future and it shits.
— Larry Kramer, Faggots
I made the mistake of using my earned sick time at the W. M. Keck Observatory for essential surgery. When I returned to work the management team demanded my resignation numerous times, citing my essential surgery as a reason. The W. M. Keck Observatory taught me that using earned sick time in the USA may put your future employment at significant risk.
— Steven Magee
Most of the people on the Cloud Ark were going to have to be women.There were other reasons for it besides just making more babies. Research on the long-term effects of spaceflight suggested that women were less susceptible to radiation damage than men. They were smaller on average, requiring less space, less food, less air. And sociological studies pointed to the idea that they did better when crammed together in tight spaces for long periods of time. This was controversial, as it got into fraught topics of nature vs. nurture and whether gender identity was a social construct or a genetic program.
— Neal Stephenson, Seveneves
Because our needs are our little daily dreams The little things to be done that project us into tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, the future; trivial things that we plan to buy next week, allowing us to think that next week we'll still be alive.
— Grégoire Delacourt, La liste de mes envies
The Lord of my life, who calls me to be brave and walk into the unknown, amazing future. I am always awed by the wonder of you.
— Susan May Warren, The Wonder of You
Something wonderful is about to happen, and something awful is about to happen. You can dwell on either one. It’s your choice.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes
Unfortunately, the board of directors that the middle managers report to generally make them aggressive. Imagine being hired into a company and then being told that you have to ignore the emerging health and safety issues (This is illegal!) and not inform the workers that the system is known to be dangerous (This is illegal!). You have two options: To go to jail for illegal activities sometime in the future, or to lose your job now and have all your USA workplace rights removed for recognizing the illegal activities that your Directors want you to engage in. Welcome to the corporate America management team!
— Steven Magee
King shrugged and looked back at Harlen. "Please tell me you have a plan. Because my baby girl really likes to color with me.
— Erin Kellison, Scrape
You must be willing to go through some tough tests, if you wish to witness a future full of great testimonies.
You ask a lot of little kids today what they want to be when they grow up and they say "I want to be famous." You ask them for what reason and they don't know or care. I think Andy Warhol got it wrong: in the future so many people are going to become famous that one day everybody will end up being anonymous for fifteen minutes.
— Banksy
Don't waste your time chasing things that will never be beneficial to your future.
— April Mae Monterrosa
There is so much to say about a past. It's a vein of gold through a mountain, leading to an incontrovertible stone heart of truth. But the future is a horizon - a faintly visible line that will promise much, and always remain to far away to touch.
— Aliya Whiteley, The Beauty
There's no reason that anything should ever become obsolete, whether it be VHS tapes, celluloid film, print books or even the previous versions of a computer operating system, as long as even just one person still wants them around. After all, one thing leads to another, old inventions are the basis for new ones, inventors and designers and scientists and hobbyists worked hard to create all these things, so don't they deserve some respect, enough not to have their ideas buried in the dust by the latest trends and fads?
— Rebecca McNutt
The past, the present and the future - none of those are set. We know that now. They change as we change.
— Aliya Whiteley, The Beauty
People always say that digital cameras are much more stable than film cameras, but the truth is that digital cameras, or any kind of digital technology, is one of the most unstable things in the world. A film camera can last decades if you know how to look after it, but digital things can break down instantly. A violent storm, a nuclear bomb, even something as minor as a cracked screen or the releasing of newer models, can make a digital product just a block of useless metal.
— Rebecca McNutt
The future was getting here faster than I'd expected.
— Maggie Stiefvater, Forever
Oftentimes she wondered what had happened to super 8. Sure, it made perfect sense that nobody wanted the hassle of spending money on a three-minute cartridge of film and threading it through a projector, but though digital cameras were convenient and cheap, Mandy didn’t care. Super 8 had integrity, it wasn’t just nostalgia, it was art, it was history, it was a little recording medium that somehow possessed the power to evoke lost memories, to turn back time, and there was something dazzling about waiting excitedly for a reel of film to come back in its yellow and red Kodak envelope, eating buttered popcorn while the projector paraded life’s best moments, and capturing something beautiful in only three minutes.
— Rebecca McNutt, Super 8: The Sequel to Smog City
The beauty is that you are always free to choose a better future as well as a better past!
— Anuranjita Kumar, Can I have it all?
You owe it to your inner-self to never allow your past to take the place of your present or future.
One way of keeping your dreams alive is to keep it to yourself. It can save you and protect your dreams to a greater extent.
— Michael Bassey Johnson, The Infinity Sign
Whether people see you as a shadow or as an invisible or stupid sort of thing, a time will come when that Image of yours will never be seen by commoners.
— Michael Bassey Johnson, The Infinity Sign
There are plenty of chances in life, what's important is what you make of them.
— Katja Michael
But then the life spans started getting longer, and people started having more and more future, and so they spent more time thinking about it. About the future. And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future...
— John Green, Paper Towns
Kugel didn't like attics, he never did. The roofing nails overhead like fangs, waiting to sink into his skull; the cardboard boxes and plastic crates and leather trunks - tombs, sarcophagi - full of ghosts and regret and longing and loss; worse yet was the implication in all this emotional hoarding that the past was preferable to the present, that what came before bests whatever comes next, so clutch it to your chests in mourning and dread as you head into the unknowable but probably lousy future.
— Shalom Auslander, Hope: A Tragedy
In 1949, neurologist Egas Moniz (1874-1955) received a Nobel Prize for his discovery of ‘the therapeutic value of leucotomy in certain psychoses’. Today, prefrontal leucotomy is derided as a barbaric treatment from a much darker age, and it is to be hoped that, one day, so too might antipsychotic drugs.
— Neel Burton, The Meaning of Madness
You can't afford to let the heartbreaks in life ruin your future.
— Cheryl Koevoet, The Carnelian Legacy
The archaeologists of the future will find themselves excavating heaps of our discarded junk, picking through mountains of DVDs and yoghurt pots and wondering: “who the fuck were these idiots?
— Chris Thomas, You Have Too Much Shit
The beauty is that you are always free to choose a better future as well as better past. Don't assign anyone else that much power over your life.
— Anuranjita Kumar, Can I have it all?
Discipline is denying ourselves in the present so as to prepare better for the future.
— Sunday Adelaja
The dialectic case of the 'things we do', the 'things we have done' and the 'things we are going to do' has been haunting present and earlier generations. For ages people have been confronted with the soul-searching question how should I interpret the past and how do I move forward. Linguistic sayings, which were inherited from century to century, gave us a good deal of remarkable advice and moral guidance in this field : " Do what is right and let come what come may ", " Do well and fear not ", " Do well and dread no shame ".Erik Pevernagie, Never looking back again
— Erik Pevernagie
LED lighting has its place: cold, detached, hollow places like office buildings, factories, fast food chains and public schools - places full of humans but no human emotions. LED lighting really belongs in the apathy of the digital age, where science and technology rules over friendship, love and freedom. Incandescent light bulbs have a warm yellow-orange glow like the glow of a nice fireplace, where friends and family might sit and talk together or where children might open Christmas presents, a glow that can project celluloid films and bring back old memories, a glow that can light the text of a paperback novel. Something that beautiful, with that much power, could never last very long in a time as depressing and uncertain as the 21st century.
— Rebecca McNutt
The ultimate computer game would be a 'total addiction' - a game that shapes itself to the elements you most like to play in such a manner that it totally satisfies you. You never want to stop playing. However, any self-configuring activity always has such risks inherent in it. Will we see one day the goverment insisting that games have time limiters the way that some motor vehicles have speed limiters?
— Ian Pearson
Your future is bright. Just stop hanging around people who try to dim your light and you will climb up to a higher height! Don't give up on the fight! Stand up for your right! It's within your might!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
Sometimes moving forward changes what's behind you.
— Kami Garcia, Unmarked
On Friday the 13th of April 2029, an asteroid large enough to fill the Rose Bowl as though it were an egg cup, will fly so close to Earth, that it will dip below the altitude of our communication satellites. We did not name this asteroid Bambi. Instead, it's named Apophis, after the Egyptian god of darkness and death. If the trajectory of Apophis at close approach passes within a narrow range of altitudes called the 'keyhole,' the precise influence of Earth's gravity on its orbit will guarantee that seven years later in 2036, on its next time around, the asteroid will hit Earth directly, slamming in the Pacific Ocean between California and Hawaii. The tsunami it creates will wipe out the entire west coast of North America, bury Hawaii, and devastate all the land masses of the Pacific Rim. If Apophis misses the keyhole in 2029, then, of course, we have nothing to worry about in 2036.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
Sweet Pocket, you mustn’t ask about my life before I came here. What I am now, I have always been, and everything I am is here with you.”　　“Sweet Thalia,” said I. “That is a fiery flagon of dragon toss.
— Christopher Moore, Fool
One of these days, will become a this day. And that day, will be the preeminent of days to come.
— Anthony Liccione
In the future, it may turn out that fossil fuels are the blood of the Earth and by extracting them may lead to serious consequences to the Earth's survival, and by association, that of the humans.
— Steven Magee, Solar Radiation, Global Warming and Human Disease
If you want a bright future, ignite your desire filled action today.
— Debasish Mridha
You will not be able to envision your future until you block out the words of those who constantly scorch you with discouraging remarks
— Evy Michaels
Savers have to be punished so debtors can be saved.Why? Because if debtors are rescued, that makes it possible for more debts to be issued in the future.And why is that important? Because the banking system needs ever more loans in order to survive.
— Chris Martenson
Our past thinking has determined our present status, and our present thinking will determine our future status; for man is what man thinks.
— W.Y. Evans-Wentz, The Tibetan Book of the Dead or The After-death Experiences on the Bardo Plane
Yesterday has gone, never to return. It is the past and over; learn from its mistakes and look to the future with optimism.
— Marilyn L Rice
There is no time for regrets. Regrets relate to the past. We have been there. We need to progress to the future.
— Marilyn L. Rice
You are the future and don’t waste your energy peeking into your past
— Sadashivan Nair, Negative-Positive and We
Once upon a time, he might’ve chased her and tumbled her in the sheets with the promise of more in the future.
— Katherine McIntyre, Soul Solution
What we pass on moves forward to future generations. Never let anything important slip through the cracks.
— Elizabeth B. Knaus, 5 Miles Round Trip: For Exercise and Quiet Inspiration
Be warned, reader. Once seen, something cannot be unseen and once read, something cannot be unread. What lies ahead can be the future of spirit but the future of spirit can also be what lies inside your head.
— S.A. Tawks, The Spirit of Pessimism
When you do the things in the present that you can see, you are shaping the future that you are yet to see.
— Idowu Koyenikan, Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability
I learn from the past, I dwell in the present, and I plan for the future.
— Lena Karynn Tesla, Something More
Young people: They care. They know that this is the world that they're going to grow up in, that they're going to spend the rest of their lives in. But, I think it's more idealistic than that. They actually believe that humanity, human species, has no right to destroy and despoil regardless.
— David Attenborough
Sometimes we have to soak ourselves in the tears and fears of the past to water our future gardens. Wisdom grows not by sitting in peace and solitude in meditation, but by confronting the storms of the past, and studying what triggered them so that we can prevent them from happening again.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Hate lawyers all you want. Unlike you, we'll never be replaced with robots. Case closed!
— Natalya Vorobyova
But the future is unknown, and stands before a man like autumnal fogs rising from the swamps; birds fly foolishly up and down in it with flapping wings, never recognizing each other, the dove seeing not the vulture, nor the vulture the dove, and no one knowing how far he may be flying from destruction.
— Nikolai Gogol
The future begins with hope.
— Debasish Mridha
All futurity seems teeming with endless destruction never to be repelled
—  Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage.
Thinking of the future, establishing aims for oneself, having preferences—all this presupposes a belief in freedom, even if one occasionally ascertains that one doesn't feel it.
— Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
For the first time in my life, my future was a blank page. It was perfect. And beyond scary.
— S.T. Bende, Elsker
By thinking continuously your past or your future, you kill your today which is the only substantial part of your life!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
The devil attacks you today, because you have got a future. He wants to destroy you for that very reason, because he is scared of your future acts and exploits.
— Sunday Adelaja
Pain is inevitable but so is joy. Too many of us resort to abject fear or anger due to our sufferings or unknowns in life. Remain steadfast by approaching discovery and love so you can embrace the present moment. The past can serve as nothing more than a lesson and the future can serve as nothing more than a notion.
— Adam Starks, Broken Child Mended Man
Never let the emotions of the past tie you down for your future to slaughter. Resist every opportunity to become angry and you will live a healthier happier life!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
One could only learn from the past and move on through the present to make a better future.
— Jason Medina, The Diary of Audrey Malone Frayer
Future does not exist, live your day and build yours.
— Ra'ad Ammari
Even while in the midst of failures, focus on your future victories.
The young man only looks to the future because he has lived little
—  the old man looks to the past because he has little left to live.
The opportunity to see the future was placed in us by God through dreams and visions.
— Sunday Adelaja
People always knock what's new but I love the modern Internet, where cleverness is currency. Social media is a cleverness meritocracy. We're living in it.
— Alexei Maxim Russell
Stop falling for those who won't raise you up in the future.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Pyschoanalysts are fond of pointing out that the past is alive in the present. But the future is alive in the present too. The future is not some place we're going to, but an idea in our mind now. It is something we're creating, that in turn creates us. The future is a fantasy that shapes our present.
— Stephen Grosz
I'm not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they're gonna do. I'm just going to do it. Imagining the future is kind of nostalgia. You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. YOu just use the future to escape the present.
— John Green
There will always be con artists, I know that,” Warren admitted. “But that doesn’t mean clairvoyance isn’t real.
— Keith Steinbaum
The future of the next generation relies on astronomers obtaining a full understanding ofthe rapidly changing human environmental conditions and the halting of biologically toxic corporategovernment policies. The overloading of the electromagnetic environment is one of these disastrouspolicies that must stop.
— Steven Magee
Analyze and correct your past mistakes before they paralyze your future! An undiscovered error will always crave for repetition. Kick out errors
—  enjoy a bright future!‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬
Solving Criminal case with wasting time on Internet ,And your Future Cases will Pending Untouched Till the End and you never realize that.
— Yaganesh Derasari
It's quite simple, they poisoned it with smoke, chemicals and pollution from factories and cars, and power stations. Silly humans knew what they were doing, but carried on poisoning the planet anyway.
— Richard J. Ward, The Hermit and the Time Machine
You were reserved for my future
— Henry James
What good is the present if you cannot change the future?
— Robert Liparulo, Frenzy
Today is the first day of the rest of your life. The past is history. The future is mysterious. Then tomorrow—this starts all over again.
— Kat Lahr, Parallelism Of Cyclicality
Step into your track and begin your steps till you reach the end because life is a personal journey.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Three rules to obey!1. Don't be over-impressed by your past glories! 2. Don't be scared by your future stories!3. Be hopeful to get out of today's miseries!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
Kids born today will see us navigate past the first greatest test of humanity, which is: can we actually be smart enough to live on a planet without destroying it?
— Alex Steffen
In times of turmoil, void or suffering, closely stays the images mirroring the lived, far seems the unknown to be; pick yourself a lens to see through, your eyes touch the distant mountains and the lived past disappears into ponzo illusions.
— Pavitraa Parthasarathy
You can never deceive or manipulate the future. Whatever it is you contribute towards it, is exactly what it will compensate you for.
Mass production keeps the world divided between consumer and producer. Demassification of production may hasten the speed towards an era of prosumers.
— Michael Petch, 3D Printing: Rise of the Third Industrial Revolution
Universe is not a calm lake and therefore when you watch a calm lake you get a deceptive idea about the universe and you get a wrong perception of future!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
[O]urs is a culture of the perpetual present, one that deliberately severs itself from the past that created us as well as the future we are shaping with our actions.
— Naomi Klein
Don't talk yourself into falling in love with someone. Either, you are in love or you are not. True love is not a choice. It is something you know in your heart when all guilt, doubt and fear are removed.
— Shannon L. Alder
Everyone changes so slowly, they don't even know that they have. And everyone likes to pretend that things are just the same yet they look at you like you could bring something back that's supposed to already be here. But home is a time. Not just a place.
— Iain Thomas
And it occurs to me that there’s no real difference between us, the living and the dead; it’s just a matter of tense: past-dead and future-dead
— Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave
Being at one with everything just means accepting that the future is always going to be unsure and learning to find ways to be okay with the uncontrollable sequence of events.
— Mohadesa Najumi
We make, see, and love films, not digitals. To convert all of our movies, home videos, theaters, photographs and television to digital would be like telling a painter to throw away his brushes and canvas for an I-Pad. Celluloid isn't just nostalgic, it's an art form and, like it or not, it's superior to digital. It lasts much longer, it provides grain and brighter colors, and it takes more effort so that it produces something wonderful. With the inferior binary codes, pixels and untested shelf-life of digital files, plus the fact that these days anyone with a digital camera, even a two-year-old, can make a video and pollute the world with self-photography and cat pictures, film has a lot more integrity and worth than digital.
— Rebecca McNutt
There’s no need to look back. What’s behind you is smaller than what’s in front you.
— Robert Tew
It is only once we stop taking everything for granted and fully open our hearts to the beauty that surrounds us that we will understand the importance of joining our hands in the construction of a better world for the people of generations to come.
— Francisco Battiti
Accept the past
—  embrace the present
She said that the planting of trees, like the education of children, was a gift to the future.
— Cassandra Danz
The future is created by those who have a great imagination and the will to make it a reality by their actions.
— Debasish Mridha
As more and more work is done by machines, people can spend more time on other activities. Not just leisure and amusements, but also on the deeper satisfactions that come from invention and exploration, from creativity and building, and from love, friendship, and community. ... If the first machine age helped unlock the forces of energy trapped in chemical bonds to reshape the physical world, the real promise of the second machine age is to help unleash the power of human ingenuity.
— Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee
Could there be anything more sad and more lonely than remembering what terrible things the future will bring?
— Stefan Merrill Block, The Story of Forgetting
Don’t misconceive God; His purpose is for us to enjoy fruits, but He gave us seeds so that we can grow the fruits. Misuse of a seed is a murder of fruits!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Watchwords
I don’t know what to do with my future.
— Igor Henrique
Don't you be thinking,' she says, 'on things that are done and can't be changed. All right, dear girl? You think of the time to come.
— Sarah Waters, Fingersmith
History is the insight to foresight
— Dr Lloyd Magangeni
-to me, the future doesn't seem real. It's just this magical place where I can put my responsibilities so that I don't have to be scared while hurtling toward failure at eight hundred miles per hour.
— Allie Brosh
That is what's meant by being afraid of the future, by showing how brilliant you come out of it.
— Bisco Hatori
‪‎This‬ letter, is what I needed to read today.Let's share ‪‎Hope‬.We trust you.“Dear Future Me, I hope that today you are the person you always set out to be. I hope you accomplished everything that they said you could never do. How many lives do you change in a day? Do you speak out for what is right, or sit there regretting your silence? I hope you are what I’m not. I hope you speak out with such a voice that everyone around you can hear it even when you aren’t speaking. I want you to have power in the way you speak- giving light into someone’s world filled with darkness. I hope you live as if you are the only one capable of making a difference, and embracing that ability in the best way possible. You don’t need to have your name written in the text of a history book, but you need to live to make your words give life to the ones who thought they didn’t deserve one.When you read this letter, I hope you are somewhere where all of you previous goals can be made accomplishments. I hope you still remember your past, and pass on your story to those who need to hear it most- to show them that they are not alone. I hope you achieved that brighter, happier life you used to daydream about when you were younger. I hope all of your dreams became your reality, and I hope that eventually your nightmares dissolved into the depths of your past- never haunting you again. I hope that you one day took off the mask that hid the truth. That you broke down the barriers you built, and learned to trust someone- really trust them- somewhere along your journey. I hope that you look in the mirror with a small, true smile and be proud of what you see. I hope that you learned to break through the surface of the water drowning you- anxiety. I hope that you now see the world from a whole new perspective, and learned to enjoy the sun more than the rain.. Most of all, I hope you learned to speak. To speak in such a voice that must be heard; a voice that embroiders your words onto a heart that needed them most. I hope you are happy, and teach ones who are like the old you to be happy as well. I hope that today you are the person you always set out to be.Sincerely,Your Past
— wnq writers
The monsters were never under our bed, but in the forest our future.
— Crystal Woods, Write like no one is reading 2
I know it's painful growing,I bet the changes was painful too.But nothing is as painful as being somewhere you don't belong. Obviously.
— Touaxia Vang
If we know the past, and live the present, it is possible that we dream the future?
— Truman Capote, Summer Crossing
The journey of the mind always has longer to travel than the heart because dreams carry weight, while love makes you float.
— Shannon L. Alder
I never plan for the future but wander into it with a smile on my face, hope in my heart, and the hair up on the nape of my neck.
— Dean Koontz, Odd Apocalypse
Hope, love and faith are in the waiting.
— Dean Koontz, Odd Interlude #1
Everybody acts like the future is so far away, when really every moment that passes is the future.
— Noah Hawley, Other People's Weddings
The ashes of the past drift away on the winds of the future. ~ Ryan Mark, Author
— Ryan Mark
Waiting is one of the things that human beings cannot do well, though it is one of the essential things we must do successfully if we are to know happiness. We are impatient for the future and try to craft it with our own powers, but the future will come as it comes and will not be hurried.
— Dean Koontz, Odd Interlude: A Special Odd Thomas Adventure
Waiting is one of the things that human beings cannot do well, though it is one of the essential things we must do successfully if we are to know happiness. We are impatient for the future and try to craft it with our own powers, but hte future will come as it ocmes and will not be hurried.
— Dean Koontz, Odd Interlude #1
The child is not a citizen of the future; he (sic) is a citizen from the very first moment of life and also the most important citizen because he represents and brings the 'possible'...a bearer, here and now of rights, of values, of culture...It is our hiostorical responsibility not only to affirm this but the create cultural, social, political and educational contexts which are able to receive children and dialogue with their potential for constructing human rights.
— Carlina Rinaldi, In Dialogue with Reggio Emilia: Listening, Researching and Learning
Where you have been isn't half as important as where you are headed. Keep your sights and focus on the future.
— Bidemi Mark-Mordi
Dolorita Hunsickle says that the chipmunks tell your fortune if you catch them but I never did. She says a chipmunk told her she would grow up to be a famous ballerina and that she would die of consumption unloved in a boardinghouse in Prague.
— Neil Gaiman, Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions
I am afraid of the future
—  it seems to be a big box waiting for me.
Time becomes meaningless without memory and we humans have a unique consciousness that allows us to live in the past or the future, which is actually more of a curse than a useful superpower.
— Jon Edgell, Resolution
Knowing the future is different from being told what I like.
— Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife
Now I wonder if it means that the future is a place, or like a place, that I could go to; that is go to in some way other than just getting older.
— Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife
Hope gives us reasons to live and pursue our dreams, expecting greater possibilities.
— Ellen J. Barrier, How to Trust God When All Other Resources Have Failed
The past informs our present and our future.
— Todd Stocker
The future belongs to nations who have grains not guns.
— Dr. MS Swaminathan
Any blunder committed in the past opens the avenue for the success of the future. However, the success of the future massively is fueled by the how positively the mistakes of the past are handled!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
It's so easy to find reasons for why I am excused to be unsatisfied with the moment. As people, we often look to the future saying I'll be happy when… I'll be happy when I graduate, I'll be happy when I am thin, I'll be happy when I get a car… and so on. But why postpone happiness. Why not find joy in the journey of life. We need to find joy in the simple, ordinary events that make up the everyday because that is what we get the most of.
— Lindsey Stirling
If you perpetuate the dreams of the past, you stifle your own dreams of the future.
— Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension
It begins when he’s still a man in a suit, doing the kinds of boring things that men in suits do. The things that no one writes about because they know that boys don’t really have nightmares about clowns or three-eyed tentacled beasts that rise from deep within volcanoes. When boys wake up screaming in the night, it’s because they know that, one day, they’ll have to grow into men who wear suits and spend their days doing boring things that cause them to rot from within, so their skin withers and blackens and cracks, leaking out their juices until they finally lie decaying and putrid, forgotten by a world that deemed them unworthy of remembering.It begins there because it’s important to know that a superhero with no past began as a man with no future.
— Shaun David Hutchinson, The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley
Fire failure by fighting falsehood. Forget the fears
—  Fix the future
Alford, Massachusetts: Mandy stood there with her old Nikon film camera, snapping photo after photo of the rural landscape. It was difficult to describe the wonderful feeling of there not being a single cell phone in sight; the only modern technology around was the faint blue glow of a cathode ray tube television in the window of a nearby house, and a few cars and trucks parked in crumbling gravel driveways. She was allowed to see this place, one that would likely be ruined by the 21st century as time went on… places like these were extremely hard to find these days. A world of wood-burning cookstoves and the waxy smell of Paraffin, laundry hung out to dry, rusty steel bridges over streams that reflected the bright blue skies, apple pies left out on windowsills… a world of hard work with very little to show for it aside from the sunlight beaming down on a proud community. And Mandy wanted to trap it all in her Kodak film rolls and rescue it from the future.
— Rebecca McNutt, Smog City
Film photography will always be superior to digital - because no matter how many lasers and instant buttons and HD pixels you've got, a human being can take a photograph with much more integrity and meaning than one a built-in robot took.
— Rebecca McNutt, Smog City
We were poor back then. Not living in a cardboard carton poor, not “we might have to eat the dog” poor, but still poor. Poor like, no insurance poor, and going to McDonald's was a really big excitement poor, wearing socks for gloves in the winter poor, and collecting nickels and dimes from the washing machine because she never got allowance, that kind of poor… poor enough to be nostalgic about poverty. So, when my mom and dad took me here for my tenth birthday, it was a really big deal. They’d saved up for two months to take me to the photography store and they bought me a Kodak Instamatic film camera… I really miss those days, because we were still a real family back then… this mall doesn’t even have a film photography store anymore, just a cell phone and digital camera store, it’s depressing…
— Rebecca McNutt, Smog City
Ah, dream too bright to last! Ah, starry Hope! that didst arise But to be overcast! A voice from out the Future cries, "On! on!" — but o'er the Past (Dim gulf!) my spirit hovering lies Mute, motionless, aghast.
— Edgar Allan Poe, The Complete Stories and Poems
And we kissed again. It was a warm, indescribably lovely feeling. But it was more than just physical. It was a dialogue between two young people with high ideals and a Big Plan. It was about belonging, secrets, partnership, commitment.
— Jasper Fforde, Shades of Grey
The past cannot be redeamed. What has been and what might have been both bring us to what is. To know grief, we must be in the river of time, because grief thrives in the present and promises to be with us in the future until the end point. Only time conquers time and its burdens. There is no grief before or after time, which is all the consolation we should need.
— Dean Koontz, Brother Odd
Kodachrome... it gives us those nice, bright colors,gives us the greens of summers,makes ya think all the world's a sunny day,Oh yeah!I've got a Nikon camera, I'd love to take a photograph,so mama don't take...my Kodachrome away...
— Paul Simon, Paul Simon: There Goes Rhymin' Simon
You have shared your secret. I think you will find it to be an unburdening in many other ways. You have very considerable natural advantages. You have nothing to fear from life. A day will come when these recent unhappy years may seem no more than that cloud-stain over there upon Chesil Bank. You shall stand in sunlight—and smile at your own past sorrows.
— John Fowles, The French Lieutenant's Woman
In fact the flexibility of our memories makes it relatively easy because we can meld all these different memories together seamlessly to invent a new imaginary scene, one which we have never even contemplated before, let alone witnessed. The flexibility of memory seems to be the key to imagining a future. Our millions of fragments of memories from different times of our lives are not set in stone; they can change, giving us endless, instant imaginative possibilities.
— Claudia Hammond
To be honest, I’ve always made films and I never really stopped, starting with little stop-motion experiments using my dad’s Super 8 camera. In my mind, it’s all one big continuum of filmmaking and I’ve never changed.
— Christopher J. Nolan
When certain seeds are planted, they nearly always grow.
— Stephen King, The Stand
I grew up in an era that was a golden age of the blockbuster, when something we might call a family film could have universal appeal. That's something I want to see again. In terms of the tone of the film, it looks at where we are as a people and has a universality about human experience.
— Christopher J. Nolan
The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible
— Arthur C. Clarke
Everything was fine, would continue to be fine, would eventually get even better as long as the supermarket did not slip.
— Don DeLillo
What happened in Your past will help accelerate you to your future
— Marcelle Hinkson
When your journey to success gets extremely tough, use your past accomplishments as your motivation to keep pushing forward. You did it in the past, and you can also do it again in the present, and in the future.
You can drive in your imaginations to make a tour to your future, visit it and see all kinds of good things hiding in there. But you have to take bold actions before you can truly relocate into what you see!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
A great future awaits you. However, you have to divorce your past and get hooked for a better life. Embrace the great future ahead with all optimism!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
The future lies in unity and respect, not division and stereotypes
— Abdullah II of Jordan
I guess if there’s one thing I can say about the 21st century, it’s that the 21st century is all flash and no substance… everything is digital, nothing but files of invisible electronic data on computers and mindless zombies on their cellular phones… it’s sad how because of the digital age, society is ultimately doomed. Nothing in the digital age is real anymore, and you know, they say celluloid film and ray tube televisions and maybe even paper might become obsolete in this century? …What’s most annoying is that nobody cares, they’ve just learned to accept the digital age and get addicted to it… none of them are ever going to step up and say to the world, “you’re all a bunch of sheep!” and even if they did say anything, I doubt anyone would listen… they’re all too obsessed and attached to their cellular phones and overly big televisions and whatever other moronic things they’ve got these days… it almost makes me want an apocalypse to happen, to erase digital technology and force the world to start over again.
— Rebecca McNutt, Smog City
Truthfully she felt incredibly miserable, seeing university students and tourists bustling in and out of the place with their cell phones in hand, texting like there was no tomorrow. Living behind a screen, they’d likely text with their last breath.
— Rebecca McNutt, Smog City
Don’t let your past define you, let it mold you into the person you want to be
— Blake Mays
... the past was what we carried with us, threaded to the future, and we decided whether to keep it close or let it go.
— Alice Hoffman, The Museum of Extraordinary Things
The shutter of the photographer's camera makes that repeated mechanical sound. That unlocking and locking of the doors of light to send momentary images of the present into the light trap of the past.
— Simon Mawer
Make today a gift to your future self.
— Anonymous
You can be as miserable or angry about anything as much as you want, end of the day getting emotional will not solve any of your problems. The only thing you can do is keep moving forward because whether or not you are ready, life will always go on with or without you.
— Anonymous
... a man always revealed his own inner story in his actions and expressions. A man's past deeds foretold his future and allowed anyone with half a brain to divine the path he would take.
— Alice Hoffman, The Museum of Extraordinary Things
You can't let the past ruin your future, I changed over in my mind.
— Maria V. Snyder, Storm Glass
When a builder builds he clears the ground for his new foundations. Then he sees that the basic structure will support the whole. Should we not also clear the mind - at least that part of it that we can reach - of the ruins of past thinking, before building our palace of dharma which will one day reach the sky.
— Christmas Humphreys, The Buddhist Way Of Life
Someone will complete you some day and that day will never be late. Those nouns and verbs are above wonderful and never ending .
— Bikash Bhandari
Give today to get better tomorrow.
— Ashish Patel
What a wonderful word, future. Of all the abstractions we can articulate to ourselves, of all the concepts we have that other animals do not, how extraordinary the ability to consider a time that's never been experienced. And how tragic not to consider it. It galls us, we with such a limited future, to see someone brush it aside as meaningless, when it has an endless capacity for meaning, and an endless number of meanings that can be found within it.
— David Levithan, Two Boys Kissing
The very word "secrecy" is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings...Our way of life is under attack. Those who make themselves our enemy are advancing around the globe...no war ever posed a greater threat to our security. If you are awaiting a finding of "clear and present danger," then I can only say that the danger has never been more clear and its presence has never been more imminent...For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence–on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day. It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations. Its preparations are concealed, not published. Its mistakes are buried, not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced, not praised. No expenditure is questioned, no rumor is printed, no secret is revealed.
— President John F. Kennedy
The present is a transitory existence which is made in order to be abolished: it retrieves itself only by transcending itself toward the permanence of future being; it is only as an instrument, as a means, it is only by it's efficacy with regard to the coming of the future that the present is validly realized: reduced to itself it is nothing , one may dispose of it as he pleases.
— Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity
Then the coxswain called out, 'Ready all!' Joe turned and faced the rear of the boat, slid his seat forward, sank the white blade of his oar into the oil-black water, tensed his muscles, and waited for the command that would propel him forward into the glimmering darkness.
— Daniel James Brown, The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
If you think that your life is amazing, wait till you see what God has lined up for you in the future. But remember, you have to keep pushing forward with bigger goals and ideas.
I'm enormously afraid of one inevitable and trivial thing - that one day I'll simply cease to exist.
— Alexander Zalan, Petals of Decades
Dedicated selfless people shape the future
— Kishore Bansal
The future is travelling furiously toward you at incredible speed and will beat you to your destination to surprise you by its resemblance to what you have already seen.
— Andrew Durbin, Mature Themes
Never permit your negative past to come in-between you and the possibilities and opportunities that lie in your present and future.
And you asked why people always expected you to smile in photographs. And I told you it was because they hoped that in the future, there would be something to smile about.
— pleasefindthis, I Wrote This For You: Just the Words
There comes a time in your life, when you are left with too many yesterdays and very less tomorrows. When you can look back and relive all the golden moments of your life. You would laugh thinking about your graduation day, or the teacher who changed your life, or how you met your soulmate. But then, you look ahead and you would realize that there is no future – no tomorrow to look forward to, and nothing to plan. Then what would you do? How would you go on and live a future that doesn't exist?
— Bhavya Kaushik, The Infinite Equinox
O that a man might knowThe end of this day's business ere it come!But it sufficeth that the day will endAnd then the end is known.
— William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar