Short quotations about, future - Page 2

R. A. Salvatore, Siege of Darkness

To any intelligent being, there is …

13 Oct , 2011  

To any intelligent being, there is no emotion more important than hope. Individually or collectively, we must hope that the future will be better than the past, that our offspring, and theirs after them, will be a bit closer to an ideal society, whatever our perception of that might be… It is at those times […]

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Plutarch

To make no mistakes is not in the p…

13 Oct , 2011  

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future. Great short quote and quotation by: Plutarch , Greek biographer & moralist (46 AD – 120 AD)

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Bourke Cockran

Underlying the whole scheme of civi…

4 Aug , 2011  

Underlying the whole scheme of civilization is the confidence men have in each other, confidence in their integrity, confidence in their honesty, confidence in their future. Great short quote and quotation by: Bourke Cockran ,

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Alexandre Dumas, Translation from "The Count of Monte Cristo"

Until divinity decides to reveal th…

9 Jul , 2011  

Until divinity decides to reveal the future to human kind, the sum of all human wisdom is contained in these two words: Wait and Hope. Great short quote and quotation by: Alexandre Dumas, Translation from “The Count of Monte Cristo” , French dramatist & novelist (1802 – 1870)

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Richard Feynman

We are at the very beginning of tim…

15 Feb , 2011  

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on. Great short quote and […]

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We cannot always build the future f…

15 Feb , 2011  

We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future. Great short quote and quotation by: Franklin D. Roosevelt , 32nd president of US (1882 – 1945)

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We have staked the whole future of …

15 Feb , 2011  

We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all of our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind of self-government; upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according […]

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James Madison, (attributed)

We have staked the whole future of …

15 Feb , 2011  

We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all of our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind of self-government; upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according […]

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Joshua L. Chamberlain, General Commander 20th Maine, Union Forces,

We know not of the future, and cann…

15 Feb , 2011  

We know not of the future, and cannot plan for it much. But we can hold our spirits and our bodies so pure and high, we may cherish such thoughts and ideals, and dream such dreams of lofty purpose, that we can determine and know what manner of men we will be whenever and wherever […]

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Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

We must never allow the future to b…

15 Feb , 2011  

We must never allow the future to be weighed down by memory. For children have no past, and that is the whole secret of the magical innocence of their smiles. Great short quote and quotation by: Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting , Czechoslovakian novelist (1929 – )

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We think very little of time presen…

15 Feb , 2011  

We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it onward, we recall the past to stay it as too swiftly gone. We are so thoughtless, that we thus wander through the hours which are not here, regardless only of the moment that […]

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Robert Half

What happens when the future has co…

15 Feb , 2011  

What happens when the future has come and gone? Great short quote and quotation by: Robert Half ,

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