Greil Marcus Quotes

I don't know about you, but there is nothing that's scarier than young people who have no future. If you take away someone's future, they have nothing to lose.

I was too practical to major in theater. Acting - what was I going to do with acting? There was no future in it.

When you're in high school, you can't even imagine the concept of what the rest of your life even means.

We are watching the beginnings of the defiant self-assertion of a new generation of Americans, a generation who are looking forward to finishing their education with no jobs, no future, but still saddled with enormous and unforgivable debt.

For all of its uncertainty, we cannot flee the future.

I never thought it was fair for an 8-year-old child not to be able to afford shoes, or to wander the streets having to beg for money. To know that child's joy would end soon, when they realised there was no future.

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

Something has to change in the world. Without change, young people will have no future.

There is no future for me as a closing pitcher.

God's most precious commodity—hope .... When a child has no hope a nation has no future.

As I look down the path to the future I see before me the footprint of the hand of fate.

Optimism is a duty. The future is open. It is not predetermined. No one can predict it, except by chance. We all contribute to determining it by what we do. We are all equally responsible for its success.

It is not wise to neglect the present for the future, for who knows what the future will be.

For the first time in the history of our country the majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years.

The future is uncertain, and therefore I can't predict it.

The consciousness-raising, the advocacy, the passion, the youth of your movement is so critical.

Humans are the only animals that try to dwell in the future. You don't have to purely live in the present situation without a plan, but the future plans you make can only be based on the aspects of the future that manifest within the present situation.

Time enough to think of the future when you haven't any future to think of.

I have to live for the day, and not worry about or try to know what tomorrow brings.... if I've learned one thing from all that'shappened to me, it's that if you would know what tomorrow brings, you may not want to live it.

The future not being born, my friend, we will abstain from baptizing it.

I think I know what is bothering the students. I think that what we are up against is a generation that is by no means sure that it has a future.

I never try to make any far-reaching predictions, so much can happen that it simply only makes you look stupid a few years later.

It was easy not to think of my future; I didn't have one.

A dangerous fallacy is to repudiate freedom in favor of an unknown future. What else but our own sturdy reliance on freedom can explain the unexampled record this country has made? In a period scarcely twice my own lifetime it has risen from nothingness to become the world's greatest power. It has become the ark of the covenant of freedom.

People live for the morrow, because the day-after-to-morrow is doubtful.