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But the task of science fiction is not to predict the future. Rather, it contemplates possible futures. — Anonymous

We are simply two good people with equally flawed pasts, looking for perfect futures.
And I think we've found it, in each other. — K.A. Tucker

None of the family had passed the 11-Plus exam, and henceforth cannot be saved, our futures doomed by an undotted i. — Morrissey

Our Futures are Formed by the Thoughts we Hold Most Often. — Wayne Dyer

Visions are possibilities. Actions are the only thing able to determine our futures. — Jacquelyn Frank

A futures contract is a derivative, but the futures exchange doesn't call them 'derivatives,' they call them 'futures.' — Myron Scholes

Not in imagined futures, Or in remembered pasts, But only here and only now Will you find a peace that lasts. — Devdas Menon

In such seconds of decision entire futures are made. — Dan Simmons

Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures. — Audre Lorde

I've been accused countless times of writing gloomy futures. But to me, the texture of my sci-fi just feels like an extrapolation of current trends. — Richard K. Morgan

Any given moment contains unlimited futures that can become real. The reality that occurs is the one you pay attention to. — Penney Peirce

Futures thinking is hard work. Fortunately, you do get better at it with practice. It's worth the effort. — Jamais Cascio

All imaginable futures are not equally possible. — Kevin Kelly

The truth that our futures are so often determined not by some grand design or deliberate strategy but by an ordinary run-of-the-mill head cold. — Catherine Gilbert Murdock

She wasn't interested in telling other people's futures. She was interested in going out and finding her own. — Maggie Stiefvater

The choices of one shape the futures of all. — Timothy Zahn

The future is completely open and so is the past. And we are writing them right now. Making a different past or future is only up to us now. — Ana Claudia Antunes

Remember, the goal of structured futures thinking is to come up with a picture of possible futures that will help to inform strategic decisions. — Jamais Cascio

That's the thing about silences and futures; someone always comes along to fill them in. If you let them. — Carrie Ryan

There are many futures, not just one. Life is not like walking down the road and meeting the predetermined events. — Akemi G

What could be duller than past history!' Therese said, smiling. 'Maybe futures that won't have any history. — Patricia Highsmith

Futures not achieved are only branches of the past: dead branches. — Italo Calvino

Some people exude their futures, good or bad. — John Steinbeck

There are so many futures still to dawn! — Friedrich Nietzsche

Our histories plan our futures. — Robyn Carr

Maybe by imagining these futures we can make them real, and maybe not, but either way we must imagine them. — John Green

I want to help change the way young people look at school, and hence, the way they look at their futures. — Kanye West

There are no good futures. There's nothing to head towards but more garish, unsustainable carnival acts. — Warren Ellis

Though we tremble before uncertain futures
may we meet illness, death and adversity with strength
may we dance in the face of our fears.
— Gloria E. Anzaldua

Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. — Richard Bach

Surrounding yourself with people who are actively and enthusiastically working toward their best futures will keep you moving toward your own goals. — Leah Busque

We do not realize the full extent of the difference between near and far futures. Yet — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

We focus on building innovation and inventing technology futures and we figure that it will take care of the rest. So far, it's done wonders. — Philippe Kahn

The images of his infinite pasts and infinite futures washed over him as he waited, paralyzed, in the present. — Jonathan Safran Foer

I am the ghost of Christmas futures, George! — Fredrik Backman

We rob ourselves when we make decisions in the moment with no thought of how those decisions will impact our futures. — Andy Stanley

Everything - our lives, our loves, our futures - hinges on one word alone: IF. — A.G. Howard

We control with our own minds most everything in our lives, including our health, our careers, our relationships, and our futures — Shad Helmstetter

Men screamed as she opened them and let their futures spill out. — Jonathan Maberry

Learn how to think a few moves ahead at once. In life, if you can anticipate the human mind, you can anticipate all possible futures. — Lionel Suggs

Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures. In one of them I am your enemy. — Jorge Luis Borges

All of our futures," she said, "exist in the Internet. — Lauren Groff

What a community erects on its historical landscape not only sums up its view of the past but also influences its possible futures. — James W. Loewen

I think dystopian futures are also a reflection of current fears. — Lauren Oliver

Instead of writing backwards over what had happened, giving structure and meaning to his story, he wrote forwards, slipping into troubling futures. — Alan McCluskey

But she is not looking down, but looking up maybe, some kind of fortune teller who can read futures in passing dark clouds. — Yannick Murphy

Please make this nation remember how futures are built — Mario Cuomo

This is how you hold onto your family. You hold them with open hands so they are free to find futures of their own. It's just that simple. — Richard Peck

He was indulgent toward the open spaces of other men's futures, but he was impatient with the shuttered quarters of their pasts. — Eleanor Catton

The Futures Bright, Wear Your Sunglasses — Ian Somerhalder

They were using the dolls to project their dreams of their own futures as adult women. — Ruth Handler

We have to edge them out of the rankings. That will damage their futures. Permanently. — Veronica Roth

There's no set futures, only the one we make. - Marina / Seven — Pittacus Lore

Positive questions bring out the best in people, inspire positive action, and create possibilities for positive futures. — Diana Whitney

It is not the beauty of nature, but it is our dream-filled actions that create our futures. — Debasish Mridha

Science fiction encourages us to explore ... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision. — Marion Zimmer Bradley

As fathers, we know what a force for life children can be. They represent all of our futures. — Ewan McGregor

We surely know by some nameless instinct more about our futures than we think we know. — Arthur Conan Doyle

I'd paralyzed their lives, their futures. I was like ice, like frost freezing their hopes and dreams. I was the living embodiment of frostbite. — Adrienne Woods

Accommodation to change, the thoughtful pursuit of alternative futures are keys to the survival of civilization and perhaps of the human species. — Carl Sagan

Humans create their futures every day of every year; only you can alter your worlds. — Janet Morris

Life is a sum of all your choices, wrote Albert Camus. Large or small, our actions forge our futures, hopefully inspiring others along the way. — Howard Schultz

He'd undone all he could. You can be sorry, and you can be forgiven, but you can't call back the futures that your bad decisions lost — Orson Scott Card

The visions are fragmented and a dark cloud spreads like spilt ink across the pages of possible futures. — Garth Nix

we're not human any more. We've slipped out of our skins like lizards, shedding not just our pasts, but our futures. — Irvine Welsh

We can seize this future together because we are not as divided as our politics suggests. — Barack Obama

Teaching money management is a practical tool that will help shape kids' futures. — Bill Rancic

When she was taken from me it was like the death of a world, an infinite number of futures coming to an end. — John Connolly

Our individual fates are linked our futures intertwined — Jimmy Carter

Mass extinctions may not threaten distant futures, but they are decidedly unpleasant for species caught up in the throes of their power. — Stephen Jay Gould

I suspect that young adults crave stories of broken futures because they themselves are uneasily aware that their world is falling apart. — Paolo Bacigalupi

There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learned to separate them. — J. D. Bernal

we sometimes imagine dark futures just to scare our own pants off. — Daniel M. Gilbert

If we were all perfect in our pasts, then we'd have nothing to hope for in our futures — Jenny Oliver

I am protecting women's rights, their human right to decide their futures for themselves, and to live their lives as they see fit. — Dr. Willie Parker

A lot of times when I was short, I would create a level of activity beforehand that would drive the futures ... It's a fun game, — Jim Cramer

We build our futures together, in the words we exchange today. — Sherwood Fleming

The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do. — Neil Gaiman

We want all possible things made actual, the perpetual possibility of perfection, the best of all futures all at once. — Dexter Palmer

What a blessing it is we cannot see our futures. — Sarah Bower

As an act of goodwill you must sacrifice all the futures you might have for the one that he designs for you. — Dexter Palmer

The options and futures traded on exchanges are derivatives contracts. — Carol Loomis

[A lesser light asked Ummon Are there multiple futures Ummon answered Does a dog have fleas] — Dan Simmons

And those with dark pasts didn't always yearn for dark futures. — Morgan Rhodes

Novels set in imaginary futures are necessarily about the moment in which they are written. — William Gibson

Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows. — Honore De Balzac

Some hedge fund managers have made big bucks trading oil futures - George Soros is one. — Gary Weiss

We are both disturbed and fascinated by visions of bleak futures, predictions of what might come if we as a society aren't careful. — Marie Lu

Boys will be boys, but girls are supposed to be careful: of our bodies, of our futures, of all the ways people judge us. — Jenny Han

Soothsayers are like that. They see many futures but never their own. — Jasper Fforde

Guy Lafleur said "Each of us has only one past but there are many futures". — Billy Graham

We have the ability to construct our own futures, albeit not in circumstances of our own choosing — Steven Pinker

Time affords us the ability to blame past errors on others while whole heartedly pronouncing our futures successes. — Douglas Adams

You have the most important job of anyone today. Our kids need you to advocate for their futures. — George Lucas

Those focused on the future don't complain about their past; those complaining about their past aren't focused on their futures. — Orrin Woodward

People do not decide their futures, they decide their habits and their habits decide their futures. — F. Matthias Alexander

Mathematics tells us that knowledge of all infinite futures is not possible - is this why bad things happen?

Has science killed God? — R.J. Hogarth

Elections are futures markets in stolen property. — H.L. Mencken

It is capitalism, not Marxism, that trades in futures. — Terry Eagleton

You hold all of our futures in your hands. So you better make it good. — Jodie Foster