Future Quotes

"Gay people - generally speaking - have a responsibility to our own community and to future generations of gay people to come out, if and when we feel that we can"

Rachel Maddow, Journalist

"All historical experience demonstrates the following: Our earth cannot be changed unless in the not too distant future an alteration in the consciousness of individuals is achieved"

Hans Kung, Theologian

"By doing something positive in this world, you're helping people and the future. We're all trying to help the world... make it a better place to live. We're actually still changing the world, aren't we?"

Rick Danko, Musician

"The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children"

Marian Wright Edelman, Activist

"I don't know whether I'm, like, jumping the gun but it's possible that in the future we may be able to use the information that we can't receive at the moment"

Sean Booth, Musician

"A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism"

Irving Babbitt, Critic

"If you make a decision to fight for future of your own country you have to consider all the consequences"

Garry Kasparov, Celebrity

"We can still find middle ground, truly secure our borders, deal with those already here and address our labor needs. But those who advocate giving current illegal aliens and future guest workers a special path to citizenship must compromise"

John Shadegg, Politician

"I don't think that was too successful. Because I always thought that the two of them should have been more separate. Also I had planned the monorail station to be in the center. So that one day you would have go to World Showcase and then the other day to Future World"

John Hench, Artist

"Science Fiction is not just about the future of space ships travelling to other planets, it is fiction based on science and I am using science as my basis for my fiction, but it's the science of prehistory - palaeontology and archaeology - rather than astronomy or physics"

Jean M. Auel, Writer

"Denver is a city that will be far more defined by its future than its past"

John Hickenlooper, Politician

"Our challenge for the future is that we realize we are very much a part of the earth's ecosystem, and we must learn to respect and live according to the basic biological laws of nature"

Jim Fowler, Scientist

"It may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science fiction is"

Elizabeth Moon, Author

"In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn"

John Naisbitt, Businessman

"We want to make sure that Social Security is fixed for those people who have had that promise and there's something in the future for our younger workers. And we're not about to do a welfare program"

Dennis Hastert, Politician

"So someday in the near future hopefully rather than having a foot or a leg amputated we'll just give you an injection of the cells and restore the blood flow. We've also created entire tubes of red blood cells from scratch in the laboratory. So there are a lot of exciting things in the pipeline"

Robert Lanza, Scientist

"Investing in industries and technology for the 21st century generates high-skilled, high-wage jobs for industries of the future"

Jay Inslee, Politician

"We can do things the cheap way, the simple way, for the short-term and without regard for the future. Or, we can make the extra effort, do the hard work, absorb the criticism and make decisions that will cause a better future"

Mike Rounds, Politician

"I can't change history, I don't want to change history. I can only change the future. I'm working on that"

Boris Becker, Athlete

"All this improvement is great, but all that does is get us in the game to play for improvements that we need in the future, so that we can be aggressive in the marketplace"

Rick Wagoner, Businessman

"The cynical part of the answer is that I expect to see a good deal more space opera, set far enough in the future as to be disconnected from contemporary issues"

John M. Ford, Writer

"History shows you don't know what the future brings"

Rick Wagoner, Businessman

"But for me, it is when a student has died. I find the death of a young person the most difficult and painful of times. To explain it to other young people, to see a bright future snuffed out, is just awful. I am haunted by those deaths"

Donna Shalala, Public Servant

"I believe that Canadians have the common sense to see that a better future cannot be built on fragmentation"

Kim Campbell, Statesman

"The future belongs to crowds"

Don DeLillo, Novelist

"It is our character that supports the promise of our future - far more than particular government programs or policies"

William Bennett, Politician

"In fact when you combine stem cell technology with the technology known as tissue engineering you can actually grow up entire organs, so as you suggest that sometime in the future you get in an auto accident and lose your kidney, we'd simply take a few skin cells and grow you up a new kidney. In fact this has already been done"

Robert Lanza, Scientist

"The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work"

Augusten Burroughs, Writer

"The cost of adding a feature isn't just the time it takes to code it. The cost also includes the addition of an obstacle to future expansion. The trick is to pick the features that don't fight each other"

John Carmack, Scientist

"I know Quebecers don't want to relive old battles; they prefer to build for the future"

Kim Campbell, Statesman

"I loved the house the way you would any new house, because it is populated by your future, the family of children who will fill it with noise or chaos and satisfying busy pleasures"

Jane Smiley, Writer

"I think daily that the country's future is being thrown to the wind"

Edwidge Danticat, Author

"I'm very concerned for the future of the earth and its amazing creatures. We've got to be careful and make sure we don't foul our own nest"

John Lithgow, Actor

"I knew I could not cope with the future unless I was able to rediscover the past"

Gene Tierney, Actress

"I've been doing musical theater since I was a kid. And look for a CD from me in the future. I want to write all the songs!"

Zac Efron, Actor

"There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learned to separate them"

John Desmond Bernal, Scientist

"Every year, I am reminded of the kids who aren't in the freshman class and aren't graduating. I remember every single one of them. That is the worst of times for me, to see the future snuffed out"

Donna Shalala, Public Servant

"Our ideal of the future is that she should continue to render that service of her own free will"

Henry Cabot Lodge, Politician

"In every man the memory of the struggles and the heroes of the past is alive. But these memories are not incompatible with the desire for peace in the future"

Gustav Stresemann, Politician

"In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first... The first object of any good system must be that of developing first class men"

Frederick W. Taylor, Scientist

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