Future Quotes

"Drugs are the enemies of ambition and hope - and when we fight against drugs we are fighting for the future"

"The mission for the day is to encourage students to think beyond traditional career opportunities, prepare for future careers and entrance into the workplace"

Allen Tate, Poet

"I made education the highest priority of my campaign - actually education and jobs - and the reason is a simple one: I think the future of America depends on it"

Charles Schumer, Politician

"No skill shapes a child's future success in school or in life more than the ability to read"

Bob Riley, Politician

"When all else is lost, the future still remains"

Christian Nestell Bovee, Author

"I ask you: turn a deaf ear to the special interests. Let politics stand down for a while. don't waste anytime thinking about future elections until we've done our jobs here"

Bob Riley, Politician

"We're at the crossroads. Down one road is a European centralized bureaucratic socialist welfare system in which politicians and bureaucrats define the future. Down the other road is a proud, solid, reaffirmation of American exceptionalism"

Newt Gingrich, Politician

"I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely seriously disturb himself or herself and how to overcome disturbance when it occurs"

Albert Ellis, Psychologist

"My theme is going to be: Together we can win the future. The right policies lead to the right results. And I'm going to argue that President Obama will lose the future because the wrong policies lead to the wrong results"

Newt Gingrich, Politician

"Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future"

Niels Bohr, Physicist

"When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat?"

Chuck Palahniuk, Novelist

"Blade Runner appears regularly, two or three times a year in various shapes and forms of science fiction. It set the pace for what is essentially urban science fiction, urban future and it's why I've never re-visited that area because I feel I've done it"

Ridley Scott, Director

"If a belief is not realized immediately in open deeds, it is stored up for the guidance of the future"

William Kingdon Clifford, Mathematician

"A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past"

Fidel Castro, Statesman

"Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies"

Ann Landers, Journalist

"The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can tell you after attending their high school reunion. But you'd never know it by talking to kids or listening to the messages they get from the culture and even from their schools"

Anna Quindlen, Journalist

"The power to mould the future of the Republic will be in the hands of the journalists of future generations"

Joseph Pulitzer, Publisher

"I have always had a tremendous amount of energy and any band I was ever in from the age of fourteen, I would always be the one who would describe the future and vibe everyone up"

Jim Capaldi, Musician

"We have a responsibility to protect the Earth for future generations. The environment is God's gift to everyone, and in our use of it, we have a responsibility towards the poor, towards future generations, and towards humanity as a whole"

Pope Francis, Pope

"We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace"

Pope Francis, Pope

"Climate change is a global challenge that requires global solutions. As a nation with vast natural resources, Norway has a special responsibility to contribute to sustainable development and protect the environment for future generations"

Jens Stoltenberg, Politician

"We are constantly adapting to the challenges we face. Our goal is a strong NATO, fit for the future and capable of addressing a wide range of threats"

Jens Stoltenberg, Politician

"Reaching out to Hispanics is critical to our future. The fastest-growing, and most conservative, segment of the population are natural Republicans"

Ken Mehlman, Politician

"I don't know that I'd necessarily want to see into the future. I don't want to know what's happening next"

Yancy Butler, Actress

"I don't have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary"

William Gibson, Writer

"For one thing, one of the wonderful things that we now have is instead of the huge budget surpluses that President Clinton left us with, we now have these huge deficits that we're going to be facing into the future"

Geraldine Ferraro, Politician

"Of course there are critics who believe that no matter what we do, the Florida dream is over. They claim that we must accept the idea that inevitably our future is one of high taxes and big government"

Marco Rubio, Politician

"You have to be professional and think about the future"

Jamie Redknapp, Athlete

"I am only doing now what I have ever done; and ever will continue to do - that is adapting past experience to present reform in the light of high ideals and future objects"

John Burns, Activist

"Renewable energy also creates more jobs than other sources of energy - most of these will be created in the struggling manufacturing sector, which will pioneer the new energy future by investment that allows manufacturers to retool and adopt new technologies and methods"

Jay Inslee, Politician

"Young people can get very discouraged and get hooked on drugs or on alcohol because of problems they perceive as insurmountable. It is important that they realize a mistake need not ruin their future, but they must also know that not everything in life is a bed of roses"

Maureen Forrester, Musician

"To get nostalgic about other people's music, or even about your own, makes a terrible statement about the condition of your life and your prospects for the future"

Neil Peart, Musician

"Why shouldn't future generations and young Americans have the choice to earn a higher rate of return? Why shouldn't they be able to own their own Social Security so that Congress can't spend it on other things?"

Ken Mehlman, Politician

"The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet"

William Gibson, Writer

"I'm about to sing the song for the future"

Stephanie Mills, Musician

"We must reinvent a future free of blinders so that we can choose from real options"

David Suzuki, Scientist

"You know, we'd just had a birthday, he was... you know, he still had a future out of him, and all I can is he was just one of the most beautiful people in the world... a very gifted man, and it's a loss to the world, not just for us"

Robin Gibb, Musician

"In my opinion, the president is right to address future funding, even though Social Security will show a surplus through 2018 and will not run out of funds until 2042"

Nick Clooney, Politician

"The future will belong to those who have passion and are willing to work hard to make our country better"

Paul Wellstone, Politician

"Our politics are our deepest form of expression: they mirror our past experiences and reflect our dreams and aspirations for the future"

Paul Wellstone, Politician

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