Asia Quote by J. B. Priestley

“When humankind possesses enormous new powers, and when the threat of famine, plague and war is finally lifted, what will we do with ourselves?…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Great ideas, it has been said, come into the world as gently as doves. Perhaps then, if we listen attentively, we shall hear amid…

— Albert Camus

What hasty preparations we make for our future. Think of it: it seems almost tragic, the things we're sure we ought to bring along.…

— Chang-Rae Lee

That bright blue ball rising over the moon's surface, containing everything we hold dear - the laughter of children, a quiet sunset, all the…

— Barack Obama

“Every morning I wake up to have the same hope, that mankind had survived its own greed, its own desire to self-destruct, its own…

— Husam Wafaei

Everything we do these days - our lust for ever more comfort, pleasure, and distraction, our refusal to engage with the mandates of reality,…

— James Howard Kunstler

“Your fantastic anticipations make me discern all the more forcibly what a wretched, unsubstantial scheme is this, on which we have wasted a precious…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

We are living in a time of trouble and bewilderment, in a time when none of us can foresee or foretell the future. But…

— Laurence Binyon

In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead.

— Tony Kushner

We can meet our destiny, and that destiny to build a land here that will be, for all mankind, a shining city on a…

— Ronald Reagan

With our eyes fixed on the future, but recognizing the realities of today, we will achieve our destiny to be as a shining city…

— Ronald Reagan

Will we ever return to a time before dreams were slogans?

— Kate Miller