My Future Quotes - Page 4

• I take all of my life lessons, which some people might call 'mistakes,' and apply them to my future so that I keep growing.

  Kimberly Caldwell

  Life Lesson, Mistake, People

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• For my future I have no concern, and as a true philosopher, I never would have any, for I know not what it may be: as a Christian, on the other hand, faith must believe without discussion, and the stronger it is, the more it keeps silent.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Christian, Believe, Hands

  Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• I was planning on my future as a homeless person. I had a really good spot picked out.

  Larry David

  Planning, Homeless, Spots

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• I stared at the creased map on my wall, the thin green line connecting all the places I had read about. There they were, all the cities of my imaginary future, held together with tape and marker and pins. In six months, a lot had changed. There was no thin green line that could lead me to my future anymore. Just a girl.

  Kami Garcia

  Girl, Wall, Cities

  Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl (2013). “Beautiful Creatures: The Complete Series”, p.332, Penguin UK

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• I have the feeling it will influence my future writing to the extent that without any material worries I could develop a greater ease, even lightheartedness, in my writing

  Elfriede Jelinek

  Writing, Worry, Feelings

  Interview with Marika Griehsel, www.nobelprize.org. November 2004.

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• And in the end, I lost him. I did it on purpose, the way Garance lost Baptiste in the crowd. I needed to be alone, I felt. I wanted to be going on alone to my future.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Purpose, Crowds, Way

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• I just want to let you know that when I look into my future, I see nothing but you.” That’s what Chaz had whispered in my ear at some point during the wedding last night. Then he’d whispered. “And you’re not even wearing Spanx.

  Meg Cabot

  Night, Looks, Ears

  Meg Cabot (2009). “Queen of Babble Gets Hitched”, p.15, Harper Collins

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• God, please now my future see, make it clear where I should be. Open windows, close the doors, not my will, my God, but Yours.

  Karen Kingsbury

  Doors, Window, Should

  Karen Kingsbury (2011). “Fame”, p.81, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Any place, then, can become a cemetery. All it takes is your body. It's not fair, I think, and I get this petulant wish for ugly flowers and mourners, my mother's old familiar grief. Somebody I love to tend my future grave. Probably this is the wrong thing to be wishing for.

  Karen Russell

  Mother, Grief, Flower

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• I want a new contract. I'm happy at United and I see my future here.

  Rio Ferdinand

  Want, Contracts, United

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• I was aware, however, that telling at any point in my career could adversely affect my future career

  Anita Hill

  Careers, Future Careers

  Opening Statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee, delivered 11 October 1991, Washington, D.C.

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• My boyfriend dumped me. My best friend won't talk to me. My future is in a garbage can. Everything has turned to crap. Can you please just let me be a sullen teenager. just this once

  J. J. Johnson

  Teenager, Garbage Cans, My Boyfriend

  J. J. Johnson (2015). “This Girl Is Different”, p.166, Open Road Media

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• Johns Hopkins introduced me to two defining events in my life: commitment to biomedical research and meeting my future wife, Mary.

  Peter Agre

  Commitment, Two, Wife

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• People of color have to do this work as a mater of everyday survival. And so long as they have to, who am I to act as if I have a choice in the matter? Especially when my future and that of my children in large part depends on the eradication of racism? There is no choice.

  Tim Wise

  Children, Color, Long

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• It’s my future and my life and I can’t make myself live the way someone else wants me to.

  J.A. Redmerski

  Want, Way, I Can

  J. A. Redmerski, J. Lynn, Jay Crownover (2013). “The Edge of Never, Wait For You, Rule: Scorching Summer Reads 3 Books in 1”, p.57, HarperCollins UK

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• It had been wishful thinking, plain and simple, dangerous for me to indulge in. Hope, happiness and freedom were not in my future.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Simple, Thinking, Indulge In

  Maria V. Snyder (2012). “Poison Study”, p.141, Harlequin

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• Ralston looked down his long, elegant nose at the vile creature at his feet, and said, “You just impugned the honor of my future marchioness. Choose your seconds. I will see you at dawn.” Leaving Oxford sputtering on the ground, Ralston spun on one elegant heel to face Benedick. “When I am done with him, I am coming for your sister. And, if you intend to keep me from her, you had better have an army at your side.

  Sarah MacLean

  Army, Your Side, Oxford

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• You could give me the past,“ he said a little sadly. “But Alec is my future.

  Cassandra Clare

  Past, Giving, Littles

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.1501, Simon and Schuster

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• The dead are merely the countrymen of my future.

  Dean Koontz

  Fear, Countrymen

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Fear Nothing: A Novel”, p.37, Bantam

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• The search for the purpose of life has puzzled people for thousands of years. That’s because we typically begin at the wrong starting point—ourselves. We ask self-centered questions like What do I want to be? What should I do with my life? What are my goals, my ambitions, my dreams for my future? But focusing on ourselves will never reveal our life’s purpose.

  Rick Warren

  Dream, Ambition, Self

  Rick Warren (2004). “What on Earth Am I Here For?”

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• My point is you're different here. Hollis I've only been here for a month. A lot can happen in a month he replied. Shoot in two weeks I met my future wife changed my entire life's trajectory and bought my first tie. You bought a tie I asked. Because honestly this was the most shocking part.

  Sarah Dessen

  Two, Ties, Wife

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• And I wonder: Have I squandered my dogness? Have I forsaken my nature for my desires? Have I made a mistake by anticipating my future and shunning my present?

  Garth Stein

  Mistake, Desire, Shunning

  Garth Stein (2008). “The Art of Racing in the Rain”, Harper

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• There was a place in the Hills, on the first ridge in the Game Reserve, that I myself at the time when I thought that I was to live and die in Africa, had pointed out to Denys as my future burial-place. In the evening, while we sat and looked at the hills from my house, he remarked that then he would like to be buried there himself as well. Since then, sometimes when we drove out in the hills, Denys had said: "Let us drive as far as our graves.

  Isak Dinesen

  Games, House, Firsts

  Isak Dinesen (1987). “Out of Africa”, Crown Pub

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• It must be around forty, when you're "over the hill." I don't even know what that means and why it's a bad thing. When I go hiking and I get over the hill, that means I'm past the hard part and there's a snack in my future. That's a good thing as far as I'm concerned.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Funny Inspirational, Mean, Past

  Ellen DeGeneres (2011). “Seriously ... I'm Kidding”, p.9, HarperCollins Australia

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• I learned that what happened to me did not have to define who I was. My past could not control my future unless I allowed it to.

  Joyce Meyer

  Past, My Past, Happened

  Joyce Meyer (2011). “Living Beyond Your Feelings: Controlling Emotions So They Don't Control You”, p.18, Hachette UK

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