Futurity Quotes
22 quotes by 17 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity.
— William Samuel Johnson
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Thoughts mold your features. Thoughts lift your soul heavenward or drag you toward hell. … As nothing reveals character like the company we like and…
— David O. McKay
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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
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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
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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
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Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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A blot in thy escutcheon to all futurity.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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All futurity seems teeming with endless destruction never to be repelled; Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage.
— William Blake
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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
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Though fanaticism drinks at many founts, its predisposing cause is mostly the subject of an invisible futurity.
— Francis Atterbury
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The Earth with its scarred face is the symbol of the Past; the Air and Heaven, of Futurity.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Futurity Quotes
17 authors contributed a total of 22 Futurity Quotes as follows: