Future Quotes

"In the remaining months, we should focus on achieving more robust international involvement in training of Iraqi soldiers, police officers, judges, teachers, and doctors - all key elements needed to end the sectarian and civil conflict and build Iraq's future"

John Olver, Politician

"Armageddon is not around the corner. This is only what the people of violence want us to believe. The complexity and diversity of the world is the hope for the future"

Michael Palin, Comedian

"Unless the great majority of Americans not only have, but believe they have, a fair chance, the better American future will be dangerously compromised"

Herbert Croly, Author

"We who came here saw what was happening. This was far more than a war in a faraway place. This was a moral imperative, a terrible vision of the future"

Paddy Ashdown, Politician

"What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party"

Paddy Ashdown, Politician

"Nonetheless, I sense that it will be the task of the future to somehow synthesize the sheer diversity of our present resources into a more organic and well-ordered procedure"

George Crumb, Composer

"My main expertise is in the past, but if I have to extrapolate into the future, I would say: no good news any time soon and an obvious exit strategy is not apparent to me"

Juan Cole, Educator

"If we care about the children, the grandchildren, the future generations, we need to make sure that they do not become the cannon fodder of the future"

Helen Thomas, Journalist

"There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people"

Jack Kemp, Politician

"Pension reform can be hard to talk about. In the long run, reform now means fewer demands for layoffs and less draconian measures in the future. It's in the best interest of all Californians to fix this system now"

Jerry Brown, Politician

"I am optimistic about the future of music"

George Crumb, Composer

"We can't gather the intelligence we need to foil future attacks, if we are blindly granting terrorists the right to remain silent. But for some reason, we've already done that - with the terrorist who tried to bring down Flight 253"

Peter King, Politician

"True revolutionaries are like God - they create the world in their own image. Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings"

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, Writer

"If we can't begin to agree on fundamentals, such as the elimination of the most abusive forms of child labor, then we really are not ready to march forward into the future"

Alexis Herman, Public Servant

"It is our hope that in future discussions with the Mexican government, you will encourage Mexico to do its part to address illegal immigration rather than encourage their citizens to illegally enter the U.S"

Elton Gallegly, Politician

"The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of modeling technology"

John Spencer, Actor

"A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul, and formed some probable conjectures, that man was designed for a future state of existence"

David Brainerd, Clergyman

"But every company of the future is going to be in the business of exquisite care - which means quick turnaround time and convenience. To deliver exquisite care, you need an organization that coordinates well and listens well"

Fernando Flores, Politician

"Whatever help we may want from the international community now or in the future, we want to make sure that this help is tailored to help our people to help themselves"

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Activist

"Detroit is saying that the hydrogen vehicle is the vehicle of the future. But it's 15 years from now"

Ed Markey, Politician

"Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education"

Ed Markey, Politician

"We now need to look beyond our immediate future and aim higher and farther"

Paul Biya, Statesman

"I want to believe that those who have been appointed to accomplish this mission will be totally committed, devoting all their skills and determination to their work. I urge you to lend them your support so that, together, we can build that bright future worthy of our country"

Paul Biya, Statesman

"Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depression. I don't care whose fault it is, it's the truth"

John Mellencamp, Musician

"The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face"

Jim Bishop, Journalist

"That's one of the most exciting things about Michigan's future. We need to, we must capitalize on our alternative-energy vehicles that we can produce right here"

Jennifer Granholm, Politician

"The situation is not about Hosni Mubarak, but the reality is now about Egypt, its present, the future of its sons, all Egyptians are in the same trench, therefore, we should continue our national dialogue That have already started in the spirit of groups but not enemies"

Hosni Mubarak, Statesman

"The people gave me the responsibility of building the future of this nation. And I did it with honor"

Hosni Mubarak, Statesman

"Blowing up buses will not induce the Israelis to move forward, and neither will the killing of Palestinians or the demolition of their homes and their future. All this needs to stop. And we pledge that Jordan will do its utmost to help achieve it"

King Abdullah II, Statesman

"It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago"

Jim Bishop, Journalist

"Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future"

Jim Bishop, Journalist

"With respect to the environment in our state and our state's future - in addition to water which is very important here - I think it is crucial for him to make a sincere commitment to energy efficiency, fuel efficiency, by helping us to produce those cars of the future"

Jennifer Granholm, Politician

"The children are taught more of the meanest state in Europe than of the country they are born and bred in, despite the singularity of its characteristics, the interest of its history, the rapidity of its advance, and the stupendous promise of its future"

Henry Lawson, Writer

"I'm sure that was the right step, even though, formally speaking, it may seem disadvantageous for a president to resign. But, looking into what is happening today and what is going to happen in the future, I think history will show I made the right decision"

Eduard Shevardnadze, Politician

"I'd like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future"

Garth Brooks, Musician

"It is the task of several months and it is a fact that a girl, either while rehearsing or actually playing, may be training for some character or feature in some future production not yet definitely fixed even in my own mind"

Florenz Ziegfeld, Producer

"My theory is, if you can do comedy and you can be in a scene with someone like Brad Garrett and hold your own, you've really got a future in this business"

Faith Ford, Actress

"This does make me very very careful, particularly in the second draft, to get it right, because you do feel that somebody in the future who may be extremely important for everybody, is going to have me behind them, and this is a responsibility, a huge one"

Diana Wynne Jones, Writer

"The future battle on the ground will be preceded by battle in the air. This will determine which of the contestants has to suffer operational and tactical disadvantages and be forced throughout the battle into adoption compromise solutions"

Erwin Rommel, Soldier

"I am going to be announcing today that we will have a business delegation come to this country sometime in the future where we will bring businesses from America to Morocco to show them the vast business opportunities here"

Donald Evans, Public Servant

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