"We can never know what might have been but what is to come is another matter entirely."

Future, Possibility, Uncertainty, Hope

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"We can never know what might have been but what is to come is another matter entirely."

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"Study the past, if you would divine the future."

Confucius, Chinese Philosopher

Future, Past, Study

"We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present."

Adlai E. Stevenson, American Politician

Future, Present

"Well, maybe I just want to know the future so I can prepare myself for what's coming. If good things are coming, they will be a pleasant surprise, said the seer. If bad things are, and you know in advance, you will suffer greatly before they even occur."

Paulo Coelho, Brazilian Novelist

Future, Preparation, Surprise, Suffering

"Books'll be back, Esther-in-Unalaq predicts. "Wait till the power grids start failing in the 2030s and the datavats get erased. It's not far away. The future looks a lot like the past."

David Mitchell, British Novelist

Future, Technology, Prediction, Power

"You are people with a present and with a future. Don't muff the ball. Be excellent."

Gordon B. Hinckley, American Clergyman

Future, Excellence, Youth, Responsibility

"Take control of your future by taking a choice of starting it right now."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

Future, Choice, Control, Now

"In the future, torture will once again become the recreational sport of the rich."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

Future, Will

"Dreams about the future are always filled with gadgets."

Neil deGrasse Tyson, American Author

Future, Dream, Imagination, Technology

"My district includes the two urban centers of Charlotte and Fayetteville, as well as large rural areas. Obviously, these diverse segments of North Carolina require different approaches to meeting current and future transportation demands."

Robin Hayes, American Politician

Future, Meeting

"We are left at the brink of our future each day and the only real choice we have is not to jump but instead make our path through the briar."

Thomm Quackenbush, American Author

Future, Choice, Bravery, Path

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"God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than He is of any other slacker."

Work, God, Intellect

"And no one ever told me about the laziness of grief. Except at my job--where the machine seems to run on much as usual--I loath the slightest effort. Not only writing but even reading a letter is too much."

Grief, Sadness, Laziness, Emotion

"There is no uncreated being except God. God has no opposite."

Theology, God, Existence, Divine, Faith

"Everyone reads, everyone hears things discussed. Consequently, if you do not listen to Theology, that will not mean that you have no ideas about God. It will mean that you have a lot of wrong ones--bad, muddled, out-of-date ideas."

Theology, Idea, Faith

"Of course, even in the hall, you must begin trying to obey the rules which are common to the whole house."

Order, Rules, Obedience

"If God is Love, He is, by definition, something more than mere kindness. And it appears, from all the records, that though He has often rebuked us and condemned us, He has never regarded us with contempt. He has paid us the intolerable compliment of loving us, in the deepest, most tragic, most inexorable sense."

Faith, God, Love, Kindness

"To be stories at all they must be a series of events: but it must be understood that this series - the plot, as we call it - is only really a new whereby to catch something else."

Storytelling, Story, Plot, Life, Meaning

"Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind."

Optimism, Regret, World

"Every Christian is to become a little Christ. The whole purpose of becoming a Christian is simply nothing else."

Religion, Christianity, Faith, Christ, Transformation

"Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult."

Fact, Now, Talking, Walking