{"quotes":[{"text":"If we are ever in doubt what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done.","author":"John Lubbock","tags":["advice","decisions","doubt","future","inspirational","planning","rule","science","tomorrow"],"id":159,"author_id":"John+Lubbock"},{"text":"They say that when people still rode on vehicles powered by oil, they could go anywhere they wanted.","author":"Yoshiyuki Sadamoto","tags":["cars","driving","dystopia","dystopian","freedom","future","motorcycles","past"],"id":475,"author_id":"Yoshiyuki+Sadamoto"},{"text":"I got the blues thinking of the future  so I left off and made some marmalade. It's amazing how it cheers one up to shred oranges and scrub the floor.","author":"D. H. Lawrence","tags":["future"],"id":514,"author_id":"D.+H.+Lawrence"},{"text":"Dreams are sacred future predictions.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["dreams","future","inspiration","life","philosophy","visions","wisdom"],"id":520,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.","author":"George Orwell","tags":["1984","future","history","past","present"],"id":521,"author_id":"George+Orwell"},{"text":"Imagination sees the complete reality, - it is where past, present and future meet... Imagination is limited neither to the reality which is apparent - nor to one place. It lives everywhere. It is at a centre and feels the vibrations of all the circles within which east and west are virtually included. Imagination is the life of mental freedom. It realizes what everything is in its many aspects ... Imagination does not uplift: we don't want to be uplifted, we want to be more completely aware.","author":"Kahlil Gibran","tags":["centre","freedom-of-speech","future","imagination","present"],"id":557,"author_id":"Kahlil+Gibran"},{"text":"Proust has pointed out that the predisposition to love creates it's own objects: is this not also true of fear?","author":"Elizabeth Bowen","tags":["anxiety","about","future"],"id":715,"author_id":"Elizabeth+Bowen"},{"text":"The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.","author":"Ursula K. Le Guin","tags":["epistemology","future","philosophy"],"id":851,"author_id":"Ursula+K.+Le+Guin"},{"text":"My heart was in my mouth. I realised that I had no desire to know any more about her past. What was behind her made me feel sick, petrified. Only the future mattered now.","author":"Ruth Ahmed","tags":["acceptance","future","interracial-love","interracial-relationship","love","past","quotes","relationships","ruth-ahmed","when-ali-met-honour"],"id":1034,"author_id":"Ruth+Ahmed"},{"text":"What lies ahead of you is challenging but beautiful.","author":"Debasish Mridha","tags":["challenging","debasish-mridha","debasish-mridha-m-d","future","graduation","inspirational","philosophy","quotes","what-lies-ahead"],"id":1178,"author_id":"Debasish+Mridha"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":3717,"pages":372,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}