#future

Dr. Blockhead's mocking face was solemn for once. 'Modern science is wiping out deviant strains of the human form,' he said. 'In the twenty-first century, genetic engineering will do more than merely eliminate Siamese twins and alligator-skinned people. It will make it hard to find a person with even a slight overbite or a large nose. I can see that future and it makes me shudder. The future looks like- him' Dr. Blockhead pointed at Mulder. 'Imagine going through your whole life looking like that,' said Dr. Blockhead. Mulder shrugged. 'It's a tough job- but someone has to do it. ↗

— Les Martin

#genetic-engineering #mulder #scully #x-files #imagination

Both she and I have grief enough and trouble enough, but as for regrets – neither of us have any. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

#future #grief #life #no-regrets #past

To envision the future; you must forget the past and make the present a memory ↗

— Jeremy Aldana

#journey #life #past #present #life

Yet it's not for want of future that I'm here, he thought. It's for want of a present. ↗

— John le Carré

#lack #life #present #purpose #life

The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future. ↗

— Joel A. Barker

#function #future #make #past #prophecy

Challenge who you can be, don't let fate control your future. Fate can come to rule your life if you don't decide for yourselves exactly what you want. It fills in the bits like a mischievous mistress. ↗

— Steven Redhead

#control #decide #fate #future #life

ربما كان في وسع الارادة القوية أن تتيح لنا أكثر من مستقبل واحد ولكننا لن يكون لنا-مهما اوتينا من إرادة- إلا ماض واحد لا مفر منه ولا مهرب. ↗

— نجيب محفوظ

#life #wisdom #life

You can't live in history. You've got to build for the future. ↗

— Ruud Gullit

#future #got #history #live #you

A weird time in which we are alive. We can travel anywhere we want, even to other planets. And for what? To sit day after day, declining in morale and hope. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#existentialism #future #hopelessness #weird

Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now. ↗

— Alan Lakein

#bringing #future #into #now #planning