#future

We are being tough in saying it is a duty on the unemployed in future not only to be available for work - and not to shirk work - but also to get the skills for work. That is a new duty we are introducing. ↗

— Gordon Brown

#available #being #duty #future #get

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#future #past #present #time #time

Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#future #past #possibilities #ticking #time

Someone needs to tell those tales. When the battles are fought and won and lost, when the pirates find their treasures and the dragons eat their foes for breakfast with a nice cup of Lapsang souchong, someone needs to tell their bits of overlapping narrative. There's magic in that. It's in the listener, and for each and every ear it will be different, and it will affect them in ways they can never predict. From the mundane to the profound. You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul, becomes their blood and self and purpose. That tale will move them and drive them and who knows what they might do because of it, because of your words. That is your role, your gift. Your sister may be able to see the future, but you yourself can shape it, boy. Do not forget that... there are many kinds of magic, after all. ↗

— Erin Morgenstern

#gifts #magic #past #possibilities #stories

The problem about the future is that it keeps turning into the present. ↗

— Bill Watterson

#problems

You can tell the future?' 'More like the future mugs me from time to time.' Rachel said 'I speak prophecies. The oracle spirit kind of hijacks me once in a while, and speaks important stuff that doesn't make any sense to anybody. But yeah, the prophecies tell the future. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#oracle #prophecy #spirit

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#about #best #comes #day #future

The future is there... looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become. ↗

— William Gibson

#future

The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man ↗

— T.S. Eliot

#humanity #library #future

The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed. The Economist, December 4, 2003 ↗