Future Quotes

"We all would like to see a brighter future for Haiti, and I hope this conference will serve to explore many views. Respect for human rights, freedom, and the rule of law must be established in the poorest nation in our hemisphere"

Eliot Engel, Politician

"Hydrogen holds great promise to meet many of our future energy needs, and it addresses national security and our environmental concerns. Hydrogen is the simplest, most abundant element in the universe"

Dan Lipinski, Politician

"The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people"

C. L. R. James, Journalist

"Look at the United States today. We have made mistakes in the past. We have had shortcomings. We shall make mistakes in the future and fall short of our own best hopes"

Henry Cabot Lodge, Politician

"A part of sexuality may go to research, and a much larger part must lead to aesthetic creation. The art of the future will, because of the very opportunities and materials it will have at its command, need an infinitely stronger formative impulse than it does now"

John Desmond Bernal, Scientist

"I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did"

Elia Kazan, Director

"Yet since the 1950s, little has been done to prepare for our country's current or future energy needs"

Cathy McMorris, Politician

"The American people deserve a budget that invests in the future, protects the most vulnerable among us and helps to create jobs and economic security"

Carl Levin, Politician

"It is my hope that as we commemorate Black History Month in the future, we will continue to celebrate the many achievements and rich culture of African-Americans"

Eliot Engel, Politician

"The Olympic stadium may have been built only in the early 1970s but it was clear for a long time it had no future. For many reasons it is not good enough for modern football and today's fans"

Franz Beckenbauer, Athlete

"I hope that we can continue this cooperation on other critical issues related to America's future technological competitiveness. We must work together to encourage the creative talents that have made our country the world leader in technology"

Dan Lipinski, Politician

"In charting our course to the future, we are mindful of our path from the past"

Brad Henry, Politician

"First and foremost arms are tools in the service of rival nations, pointing at the possibility of a future war"

Alva Myrdal, Diplomat

"We think that Kosovo will continue to serve as a centre of violence and regional instability in future"

Boris Trajkovski, Statesman

"The next few months are critical to Pakistan's future direction as a democratic state committed to promoting peace, fighting terrorism and working for social justice"

Benazir Bhutto, Leader

"Rodgers and Hammerstein didn't mean anything to me. I just wanted to have a hit, I just wanted to be like those people on the radio. It was all of a case of the present tense with no projecting into the future, particularly"

Art Garfunkel, Musician

"You never know how things will last, if they will last, and how people will use them in the future. It was a fun movie for young people at the time in the 80s; but it struck a cord with people and it has lasted so I'm very proud of being a part of that"

Blair Underwood, Actor

"We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future"

Frederick Douglass, Author

"There are necessary evils. Money is an important thing in terms of representing freedom in our world. And now I have a daughter to think about. It's really the first time I've thought about the future and what it could be"

Johnny Depp, Actor

"The American people I talk to don't spend every moment thinking, 'How can I tax my neighbor more than they're being taxed?' They say, 'How can I get a good job? How can my kids get good jobs? How can seniors have a confidence in their future when they know that Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid are bankrupt?'"

Mitt Romney, Politician

"Cartooning is a wonderful career, and I'd like more women to get to have it. I can't think of any reason why we won't see more syndicated female cartoonists in the future"

Cathy Guisewite, Cartoonist

"While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both good and evil, since the world is made to that mingled pattern"

Dorothy L. Sayers, Author

"Internationally, President Obama has adopted an appeasement strategy. He believes America's role as leader in the world is a thing of the past. I believe a strong America must - and will - lead the future"

Mitt Romney, Politician

"America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future"

Frederick Douglass, Author

"Education is the investment our generation makes in the future"

Mitt Romney, Politician

"Deficits mean future tax increases, pure and simple. Deficit spending should be viewed as a tax on future generations, and politicians who create deficits should be exposed as tax hikers"

Ron Paul, Politician

"The risk presented by these lethal wastes is like no other risk, and we should not be expected to accept it or to project it into the future in order for manufacturers and utilities to make a dollar killing now"

David R. Brower, Environmentalist

"The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family's future"

Jackie Kennedy, First Lady

"I like today and perhaps a little future still, but the past is really something I'm not interested in. So, as far as I'm concerned, I like only the past of things and people I don't know. When I know, I don't care because I knew how it was"

Karl Lagerfeld, Designer

"Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language"

Gaston Bachelard, Philosopher

"Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay"

Simone de Beauvoir, Writer

"The future is always a dystopia in movies"

Alex Cox, Director

"Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past"

Lewis Mumford, Sociologist

"If stability and efficiency required that there existed markets that extended infinitely far into the future - and these markets clearly did not exist - what assurance do we have of the stability and efficiency of the capitalist system?"

Joseph Stiglitz, Economist

"What I'm suggesting to you is that this could be a renaissance. We may be on the cusp of a future which could provide a tremendous leap forward for humanity"

Jeremy Rifkin, Economist

"Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children"

Maxim Gorky, Novelist

"John wrote with a very deep love for the human race and a concern for its future"

Yoko Ono, Artist

"One of the deepest functions of a living organisms is to look ahead... to produce future"

Francois Jacob, Scientist

"For me, this world of questions and the provisional, this chase after an answer that was always put off to the next day, all that was euphoric. I lived in the future"

Francois Jacob, Scientist

"The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make"

William Morris, Designer

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