Future Quotes

"The global economic outlook remains fragile and uncertain. Global economic imbalances persist and we must address them or risk future instability"

Julia Gillard, Statesman

"We grow in time to trust the future for our answers"

Ruth Benedict, Scientist

"You know, our ratings after this match will be very close - I think I can also become the world number one in the not too distant future. However, I'm sure that Garry will also have something to say about this!"

Vladimir Kramnik, Celebrity

"Congress would exclude slavery from any territory that in the future might be acquired from Mexico"

David Wilmot, Activist

"We must work to help all families and all communities realize their dream of a better future"

Christine Gregoire, Politician

"The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn"

Alvin Toffler, Author

"America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live"

Jane Addams, Activist

"I found, when I left, that there were others who felt the same way. We'd meet, they'd come and seek me out, we'd talk about the future. And I found that their depression and pessimism was every bit as acute as mine"

Wole Soyinka, Dramatist

"The Jews had, as a matter of fact, long been all along the most ingenious entrepreneurs. It was only our own future that we had never built upon a business basis"

Theodor Herzl, Journalist

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

Ruth Benedict, Scientist

"To that movement, consecrated by religious principle, sustained by an awful sense of justice, and cheered by the brightest hopes of future good, all our powers, talents, and attainments are devoted"

George Ripley, Activist

"I have been over into the future, and it works"

Lincoln Steffens, Journalist

"I mentioned that one of the tripartite formulas in American worldview involves time: past, present, and future"

Alan Dundes, Educator

"I believe it is essential for our planetary future to develop tools that can change the consciousness which has created the crisis that we are in"

Stanislav Grof, Psychologist

"Racism is an ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed; for or against, we must take sides. And the history of the future will differ according to the decision which we make"

Ruth Benedict, Scientist

"Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future"

Frank Herbert, Writer

"The failure of national economic policy is costing us more than jobs; it has begun to weaken that uniquely American spirit of risk-taking, large ambition, and optimism about the future. We must rally them now to bold departures that rebuild our national morale as well as our material prosperity"

Mitch Daniels, Politician

"Most of the media... is positioning the merger with Compaq and the recent actions by Walter Hewlett and David Packard as a fight between the past and the future"

Carly Fiorina, Businessman

"As I pass it, I feel as if I saw a dear old mother, sweet in her weakness, trembling at the approach of her dissolution, but not appealing to me against the inevitable, rather endeavouring to reassure me by her patience, and pointing to a hopeful future"

Thomas Edward Brown, Poet

"That's kind of like how jazz is sometimes. You're out there predicting the future, and no one believes you"

Branford Marsalis, Musician

"As far as the future for the Showtime episodes that have already aired, we are sold into syndication so we'll be appearing primarily on the Fox syndicated networks and then eventually the SCI FI Channel. So, we'll be around for a while"

Richard Dean Anderson, Actor

"Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock"

Alvin Toffler, Author

"Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time"

Alvin Toffler, Author

"Let's clean up our environment. Let's clean up our bodies, but most importantly, let's not permit our babies of the future to be polluted before they are even born"

Louise Slaughter, Politician

"I have memories - but only a fool stores his past in the future"

David Gerrold, Writer

"Education is the foundation upon which we build our future"

Christine Gregoire, Politician

"The people of the future will say, meat-eaters in disgust and regard us in the same way that we regard cannibals and cannibalism"

Dennis Weaver, Actor

"It is time for us to turn a corner and come together, put our differences behind us and focus on the future"

Christine Gregoire, Politician

"School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobodys perfect, so why practice?"

Billie Joe Armstrong, Musician

"Carry on any enterprise as if all future success depended on it"

Cardinal Richelieu, Clergyman

"Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace"

Barbara Mikulski, Politician

"When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic"

Jean Rostand, Scientist

"To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people"

Alice Walker, Author

"Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of Fritz Lang's feeble imagination"

Henry Miller, Writer

"In the light of our culture, these are not unreasonable questions and tactics, but if once again, we try to see the lens through which we look, we can see that there is far too great an emphasis placed on the future"

Alan Dundes, Educator

"If GE's strategy of investment in China is wrong, it represents a loss of a billion dollars, perhaps a couple of billion dollars. If it is right, it is the future of this company for the next century"

Jack Welch, Businessman

"I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it - not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization"

Harry S. Truman, President

"We have no right to assume that any physical laws exist, or if they have existed up until now, that they will continue to exist in a similar manner in the future"

Max Planck, Scientist

"Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored"

Earl Nightingale, Writer

"There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past"

Jean Rostand, Scientist

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