Years Hence Quotes
27 quotes by 26 authors
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If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.
— Samuel Butler
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When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will…
— Samuel Butler
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I've had experiences in my life that leave no doubt in my mind about the fact that God exists. I'm quite willing to debate people…
— Benjamin Carson
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It may be said of some very old places, as of some very old books, that they are destined to be forever new. The nearer…
— Amelia B. Edwards
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It seems reasonable to envision, for a time 10 or 15 years hence, a "thinking center" that will incorporate the functions of present-day libraries together…
— J. C. R. Licklider
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It sometimes seems that we live as if we wonder when life is going to begin. It isn't always clear just what we are waiting…
— Richard L. Evans
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Who are you, reader, reading my poems an hundred years hence? I cannot send you one single flower from this wealth of the spring, one…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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I'd like to speak a foreign language well enough to get the jokes. I'd like to talk with Socrates, and watch Michelangelo sculpt David. I'd…
— Robert Fulghum
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I don't know who's 18 years old today that, 20 years hence, is going to be a jazz fan.
— Norman Granz
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Struggle hard and then if you do not succeed, you are not to blame. Let the world praise or blame you. Let all the wealth…
— Swami Vivekananda
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And surely, he that hath taken the true Altitude of Things, and rightly calculated the degenerate state of this Age, is not like to envy…
— Thomas Browne
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Furnished as all Europe now is with Academies of Science, with nice instruments and the spirit of experiment, the progress of human knowledge will be…
— Benjamin Franklin
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If you make children happy now, you will make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it.
— Kate Douglas Wiggin
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One of the reasons that I accepted, once asked to do Star Trek, was to give a single child a chance to see the long…
— Avery Brooks
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Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.
— Matthew Arnold
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There exists only the present instant... a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only…
— Meister Eckhart
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Sometime in the future - 25, 50, 75 years hence - what will the situation be like then? By that time the Chinese will have…
— Curtis LeMay
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If we are all alive ten years hence, let's meet, and see how many of us have got our wishes, or how much nearer we…
— Louisa May Alcott
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The very power of [textbook writers] depends on the fact that they are dealing with a boy: a boy who thinks he is ‘doing’ his…
— C.S. Lewis
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Thus, I always began by assuming the worst; my appeal was dismissed. That meant, of course, I was to die. Sooner than others, obviously. 'But,'…
— Albert Camus
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