Futurity Quotes

22 quotes by 17 authors

The military mind is indeed a menace. Old-fashioned futurity that sees only men fighting and dying in smoke and fire; hears nothing more civilized than… — Sean O'Casey
Wrath to come implies both the futurity and perpetuity of this wrath.... Yea, it is not only certainly future, but when it comes it will… — John Flavel
To tell of disappointment and misery, to thicken the darkness of futurity, and perplex the labyrinth of uncertainty, has been always a delicious employment of… — Samuel Johnson
Another source of conviction in the existence of God, connected with the reason and not with the feelings, impresses me as having much more weight.… — Charles Darwin
It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity. — William Samuel Johnson
Thoughts mold your features. Thoughts lift your soul heavenward or drag you toward hell. â€¦ As nothing reveals character like the company we like and… — David O. McKay
If I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman. — Samuel Johnson
Disbelief in futurity loosens in a great measure the ties of morality, and may be for that reason pernicious to the peace of civil society. — David Hume
When one illusion vanishes, another shall appear, and, still leading me forward towards an horizon that retreats as I advance, the happy prospect of futurity… — Maria Edgeworth
Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
A blot in thy escutcheon to all futurity. — Miguel de Cervantes
All futurity seems teeming with endless destruction never to be repelled; Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage. — William Blake
Strategic planning is the continuous process of making present entrepreneurial (risk-taking) decisions systematically and with the greatest knowledge of their futurity; organizing systematically the efforts… — Peter Drucker
Though fanaticism drinks at many founts, its predisposing cause is mostly the subject of an invisible futurity. — Francis Atterbury
The Earth with its scarred face is the symbol of the Past; the Air and Heaven, of Futurity. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under… — Thomas Jefferson
The whole blear world of smoke and twisted steel around my head in a railroad car, and my mind wandering past the rust into futurity:… — Allen Ginsberg
Distance... is like futurity. A dim vastness is spread before our souls; the perceptions of our mind are as obscure as those of our vision...… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present; the words which express what… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale — Thomas Jefferson

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