Future Quotes

"The way you remember the past depends upon your hope for the future. And if what you see in your future has no hope, it has no potential, then you view the past that brought you to here as not very good"

Story Musgrave, Astronaut

"We are being tough in saying it is a duty on the unemployed in future not only to be available for work - and not to shirk work - but also to get the skills for work. That is a new duty we are introducing"

Gordon Brown, Politician

"If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future"

Madeleine Albright, Statesman

"With the permanent elimination of this tax, farmers and business owners will have the sense of security they need to plan for the financial future of their business or farm and their family"

Doc Hastings, Politician

"There have been times when I felt suicidal and I would stop my head from going in that direction of negativity because I thought there'd be something I'd miss that was funny in the future. If there's a chance I'm going to laugh tomorrow then want to live to experience that"

Dave Navarro, Musician

"I don't sit here and dream because I don't care about the future. I wouldn't take nothin' for my past and I've got enough behind me that I can write forever"

Brownie McGhee, Musician

"My efforts in Congress are guided by the belief that environmental preservation and restoration are a critical part of the legacy we leave to future generations"

Sue Kelly, Politician

"We need to reduce or at least limit U.S. demand for oil as quickly as possible, and we need to develop new technologies that can further help address our addiction to oil in the future"

Sherwood Boehlert, Politician

"We may very well be faced with the choice of retaining the AAA credit rating or abandoning some of our key infrastructure projects, which are about jobs for the future. I will choose jobs in that equation every time"

Jay Weatherill, Politician

"My dreams for the future are simple: work, a happy, healthy family, a lovely long motorcycle ride, and continuing the struggle to awaken people to the need for serious human rights reform"

Mike Farrell, Actor

"I also believe that it is time to begin the fundamental analysis of how we got here, what led us here and what we need to do in order to ensure that we are equipped with the best possible intelligence as we face these issues in the future"

David Kay, Scientist

"Perhaps at a later point important developments will be traced back to September 11. But for now we do not know which of the many scenarios will actually hold in the future"

Jurgen Habermas, Philosopher

"Why do people so love to wander? I think the civilized parts of the World will suffice for me in the future"

Mary Cassatt, Artist

"Moreover, from reforming the tax code to our immigration system, to commonsense legal reform, President Bush put America on notice that he will continue fighting to make the country, and the world, a better place for future generations"

Jim Sensenbrenner, Politician

"Every President that went to China, I would meet them and have dinner and talk about the past and the future. That was in the '70s"

Jet Li, Actor

"Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future"

Lewis B. Smedes

"Why have we had to invent Eden, to live submerged in the nostalgia of a lost paradise, to make up utopias, propose a future for ourselves?"

Julio Cortazar, Writer

"My vision is that our country should be integrated in the EU, to transfer a part of our independence there. It is also our duty to do it, if we want to establish trade and a sound economy. This is the vision that I am working on and I will continue to work in the future"

Ibrahim Rugova, Statesman

"Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned"

John Holt, Educator

"It is, I claim, nonsense to say that it does not matter which individual man acted as the nucleus for the change. It is precisely this that makes history unpredictable into the future"

Gregory Bateson, Scientist

"It is a sad commentary that today we face a choice between having schools that are a monument to our past - or schools that will be the lifeblood of our future. But since that is our choice, let us resolve to choose wisely"

Ted Kulongoski, Politician

"I was offered a choice of a flat salary up front or a percentage of the film's future earnings. I took the up front money. Nobody could have figured what Halloween would ultimately become"

Donald Pleasence, Actor

"Let us seize the special opportunity that is ours to act boldly and decisively at a time when the eyes of our fellow citizens, both present and future, are upon us"

Bob Taft, Politician

"There are a lot of new opportunities that are poking their head up in my future. I've been very fortunate that way, but for right now, what I like is what I'm doing"

Gavin MacLeod, Actor

"As a first generation Jewish American, I have witnessed firsthand Jewish immigrants who have come to this Nation in order to create a better life for themselves, their families, and future generations"

Jan Schakowsky, Politician

"So if North Korea continues present isolation, then with such economic difficulties the North Korean government must meet a very serious situation in the future"

Kim Dae Jung, Leader

"Yet, our achievements also mask many continuing failings and seem to expose more future dangers"

Hun Sen, Statesman

"I am hopeful about any future for whites in this country, but not entirely optimistic"

Helen Suzman, Politician

"We need to take steps to strengthen and mend Social Security so that its promise of a secure retirement is just as real for seniors in the future as it is today"

Herb Kohl, Politician

"Here once again education is crucial, it enables children to be become more aware of their rights and to exercise them in a respectful manner which helps them shape their own future"

Carol Bellamy, Educator

"And yes, the Homesteaders, including my grandparents who left behind almost nothing, and arrived in Montana with nothing but the clothes on their back, high hopes, faith in God and dreaming of the future"

Brian Schweitzer, Politician

"I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us"

Dorothy Dix, Journalist

"You know when you're young you think you will always be. As you become more fragile, you reflect and you realize how much comfort can come from the past. Hymns can carry you into the future"

Andy Griffith, Actor

"It is sound judgment to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a star"

Arthur Eddington, Scientist

"The Council of Islamic Affairs is doing a great service to the world by promoting a greater understanding in America of the rich heritage of the Islamic peoples and their hopes and aspirations for the future"

Aly Khan, Public Servant

"It is our duty to see that our future citizens are well born; that they are properly nourished, and are reared in that environment most likely to develop in them their full capacity and powers"

Arthur Capper, Politician

"In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future"

Alex Haley, Novelist

"Taking part in these types of programs is crucial to our youth and crucial to the future of this game"

Troy Vincent, Athlete

"You don't know for sure why things happen, but you know, it did! It was my time to go on the show and I'm excited to see what my future holds"

Pia Toscano, Musician

"Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation in turn becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources - and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on in the future"

Alberto Moravia, Novelist

Page 24 of 33