Future Quotes

"People began to understand that with the acquisition of California the nation had obtained practically half a continent, of which the future possibilities were almost unlimited, so far as the development of natural resources and the genera production of wealth were concerned"

John Moody, Businessman

"By mere burial man arrives not at bliss; and in the future life, throughout its whole infinite range, they will seek for happiness as vainly as they sought it here, who seek it in aught else than that which so closely surrounds them here - the Infinite"

Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Philosopher

"At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past"

Maurice Maeterlinck, Dramatist

"The most reliable way to forecast the future is to try to understand the present"

John Naisbitt, Businessman

"You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side"

William E. Gladstone, Leader

"My commitment to the security and future of Israel is based upon basic morality as well as enlightened self-interest. Our role in supporting Israel honors our own heritage"

Gerald R. Ford, President

"All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak, and not always with my advance approval, and I expect that to continue in the future"

Gerald R. Ford, President

"It is pretty clear that they are ineffective in stopping the course of thought at present, but they have not always been so in the past and we cannot be sure that they will not be so in the future"

John Desmond Bernal, Scientist

"It will take some time before a politician will capture the imagination of the American people and have the vision and understanding to do what is necessary for a better future for the people of America and the world"

David Korten, Activist

"I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language; distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon"

Larry Niven, Writer

"We must always emphasize research and development of science and mathematics, and I can think of no better way to achieve this than through our future in space"

Nick Lampson, Politician

"What unites Oklahomans today is what has always united us: Our unshakable faith. Our love of family and compassion for others. The unlimited promise of a hopeful future"

Brad Henry, Politician

"For some reason, I seem to be bothered whenever I see acts of injustice and assaults on people's civil liberties. I imagine what I write in the future will follow in that vein. Whether it's fiction or non-fiction"

Iris Chang, Historian

"The truth is the Republican leadership has created a credit card Congress that is recklessly selling out the future of America, our children and our grandchildren, and President Bush is the most fiscally irresponsible President in the history of America"

Dennis Cardoza, Politician

"Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born"

Aneurin Bevan, Politician

"No other investment yields as great a return as the investment in education. An educated workforce is the foundation of every community and the future of every economy"

Brad Henry, Politician

"And when these advances are made, hydrogen can fill critical energy needs beyond transportation. Hydrogen can also be used to heat and generate electricity for our homes. The future possibilities of this energy source are enormous"

Dan Lipinski, Politician

"If nations always moved from one set of furnished rooms to another - and always into a better set - things might be easier, but the trouble is that there is no one to prepare the new rooms. The future is worse than the ocean - there is nothing there"

Alexander Herzen, Journalist

"The men of the future will yet fight their way to many a liberty that we do not even miss"

Max Stirner, Philosopher

"Our highly qualified teachers not only work hard, but they care about each and every student that enters their classroom. I thank you, Montana teachers, for your sense of duty and compassion to our precious future generation"

Conrad Burns, Politician

"If the right people do the right things, we can walk, we can have a future. But if people don't put time into it to make it run in a right way, I don't think your team will work"

Tim Hardaway, Athlete

"All along the untrodden paths of the future, I can see the footprints of an unseen hand"

Boyle Roche, Politician

"I think the future looks great for music, musicians, bass players, and all we love about music"

Billy Sheehan, Musician

"One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over time"

Kevin Kelly, Editor

"I have reached a place in my life where I need to sit down and say, 'Well, what do I do? What's best for me?' I need to look into options for the future"

Michael Phelps, Athlete

"No, I think the future of humanity will be like the past, we'll do what we've always done and there will still be human beings. Granted, there will always be people doing something different and there are a lot of possibilities"

Octavia Butler, Writer

"I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States"

Harold Bloom, Critic

"With terrorist groups like al Qaeda, you can't learn what you want to learn about their capabilities and their future plans by taking a picture of it, and they've learned not to use the telephone"

Bob Graham, Politician

"There's certainly more new SF available than when I started writing. That means there's also more bad SF available. Whether there is also more good is a matter for future historians of the field"

Alan Dean Foster, Author

"I think the future also will not belong to those who are cynical or those who stand on the sidelines"

Paul Wellstone, Politician

"What I'm concerned about is endless borrowing, which is going to compromise our economy not only today but in the future. Because we know the decisions we make right now really dramatically impact us in the future, and the debt is literally getting out of our control"

Paul Ryan, Politician

"Evolutionary cosmology formulates theories in which a universe is capable of giving rise to and generating future universes out of itself, within black holes or whatever"

Robert Nozick, Philosopher

"By failing seriously to confront the most predicable economic crisis in our nation's history, the President's policies are committing us and our children to a diminished future"

Paul Ryan, Politician

"I was always someone who lived in the future all the time, it was always the next thing - dreams of escape"

Julie Walters, Actress

"The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet"

William Gibson, Writer

"The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future"

Philip Emeagwali, Scientist

"I've found that when the market's going down and you buy funds wisely, at some point in the future you will be happy. You won't get there by reading 'Now is the time to buy.'"

Peter Lynch, Businessman

"I'm not sure what the future holds but I do know that I'm going to be positive and not wake up feeling desperate. As my dad said "Nic, it is what it is, it's not what it should have been, not what it could have been, it is what it is""

Nicole Kidman, Actress

"I'm a person that carries everything that happened to me in my past, with me into the future. I refuse to let it make me bitter. I still completely believe in love and I remain open to anything that will happen to me"

Nicole Kidman, Actress

"There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in"

Graham Greene, Playwright

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