"It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago."

Future, Nothing, Past, Present

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"It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago."

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"Is it possible to have memories from the future? Yes, it is! Just dream about the future and these dreams will take their places on your memories, they will be your memories from the future!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Future, Memories, Dream, Truth

"General..behold the future of weaponry.""What the hell I am seeing here, Colonel?""It's..technologart of ancient weaponry, Sir!""It's..what?"

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

Future, Technology, Truth, Power, Today

"Sometimes the 'day' you're dreaming for never comes. Take control of your future and start now."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

Future, Dream, Control, Now

"We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

Future, Past, Responsibility

"What you believe your future holds for you impacts your attitude, decisions and success."

Maddy Malhotra, British Poet

Future, Belief, Mindset, Success

"The future is the worst thing about the present."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

Future, Present

"Only God knows the future and that we are to look to Him-not to the stars or the tea leaves or the lines on the palms of our hands-for our confidence in the future."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

Future, Trust, Divine, Prediction

"Until we will be able to shape the universe the way we wanted, mankind will not be taken seriously by the universe and he shall remain as insignificant ants of the universe!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Future, Truth, Wisdom, Inspirational

"Tomorrow is the only future we have. Let's live to love it!"

Munia Khan, Bangladeshi Poet

Future, Tomorrow, Love, Life

"I missed the future. Obviously I knew even before his recurrence that I'd never grow old with Augustus Waters. But thinking about Lidewij and her boyfriend, I felt robbed. I would probably never again see the ocean from thirty thousand feet above, so far up that you can't make out the waves or any boats, so that the ocean is a great and endless monolith. I could imagine it. I could remember it. But I couldn't see it again, and it occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again."

John Green, American Author

Future, Loss, Ambition, Memory

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"The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face."

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"The reporter is the daily prisoner of clocked facts. On all working days, he is expected to do his best in one swift swipe at each story."

Fact, Facts

"A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender."

Criticism, Writer

"Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla."

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"When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell on the amount of love and treasure and patience parents poured into bodies no longer suitable for open caskets?"

Love, Car, Open, Parents

"A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age in a day."

Age, Day, Old, Words

"Scoops of mint ice cream with chips of chocolate cows."

Food, Cows

"At 19, everything is possible and tomorrow looks friendly."

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"It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father and mother, born in such travail that the writer despises the thing that enslaved him."

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"Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future."

Power, Time, Books, Future