Terry Pratchett Quotes

I believe that I am only at a beginning, only knocking at a door, and I believe that the best is yet to come.

The way you remember the past depends upon your hope for the future. And if what you see in your future has no hope, it has no potential, then you view the past that brought you to here as not very good.

The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.

Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.

And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.

At 19, everything is possible and tomorrow looks friendly.

I was the future once.

Where one door shuts another opens.

Who knows what may lie around the next corner? There may be a window somewhere ahead. It may look out on a field of sunflowers.

Every night when I go to bed I think, In the morning I will wake up in my own house and things will be back the way they were. It hasn’t happened this morning, either.

There still might be a place for us somewhere.

I'm always sorry when pleasant things end. Something still pleasanter may come after, but you can never be sure.

Each day comes to me with both hands full of possibilities.

There's always a chance. Anything can happen.

Every new invention is like a baby. You think it may cure cancer or become the president, but in the end, you're happy it just stays out of jail.

I feel like there's a world of possibilities out there.

While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.

An unlimited future. Isn't that what America is all about?

And I can't wait to see where the road leads from here.

Everybody's after a new morning. What do we have to run up and salute tomorrow?

Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.

We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.

I'm really looking forward to seeing what life brings to me.

The sweetest two words are 'next time.' The sourest word is 'if.'