Future Quotes

"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

"Just what future the Designer of the universe has provided for the souls of men I do not know, I cannot prove. But I find that the whole order of Nature confirms my confidence that, if it is not like our noblest hopes and dreams, it will transcend them"

Henry Norris Russell, Scientist

"We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place"

Gunther Grass, Author

"I am an enthusiast, but not a crank in the sense that I have some pet theories as to the proper construction of a flying machine. I wish to avail myself of all that is already known and then, if possible, add my mite to help on the future worker who will attain final success"

Wilbur Wright, Inventor

"A free culture has been our past, but it will only be our future if we change the path we are on right now"

Lawrence Lessig, Educator

"I see myself more as an ambassador of the game. And I hope to bring chess to a higher level in the United States. Making bigger tournaments, more interesting events. Making it a respectable profession for young people to be able to pursue in the future"

Maurice Ashley, Celebrity

"It took 35 years, but the time was well spent and I think I have established a good stake in the future"

Johnny Olson, Entertainer

"We're not going to make Evolution or any of our other products depend on Mono anytime in the near future"

Nat Friedman, Businessman

"The future of the world belongs to the youth of the world, and it is from the youth and not from the old that the fire of life will warm and enlighten the world. It is your privilege to breathe the breath of life into the dry bones of many around you"

Tom Mann, Businessman

"The future of our nation depends on our ability to produce food and fiber to sustain the world"

Phil Bredesen, Politician

"I haven't any sort of plans for the future but I reckon things will work out in some manner"

Dashiell Hammett, Author

"Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built"

James Dobson, Psychologist

"When the sappy boughs Attire themselves with blooms, sweet rudiments Of future harvest"

John Philips, Poet

"I'm on a search for my future ex-wife"

Richie Sambora, Musician

"Yeah, that's what I'm working for. The couture house of the future"

John Galliano, Designer

"The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime"

Karl Rove, Politician

"Through first-class education, a generation marches down the long uncertain road of the future with confidence"

Wynton Marsalis, Musician

"The future of healthcare security should include flexibility from the federal government to allow us to serve the state's most vulnerable citizens"

Thomas Vilsack, Politician

"The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present"

Adolf Loos, Architect

"Call us the future from your past"

Fred Schneider, Musician

"The golden age has not passed; it lies in the future"

Paul Signac, Artist

"The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine"

Mike Murdock, Clergyman

"The vast possibilities of our great future will become realities only if we make ourselves responsible for that future"

Gifford Pinchot, Politician

"We love our business. We have never been more enthusiastic about cable and its future"

Brian Roberts, Businessman

"I think it makes people in the Pentagon kind of nervous to know that chemical agents and environmental factors could cause so much damage in terms of what may happen in the future"

Bernard Sanders, Politician

"I think and hope and believe that the Japanese government and the people of Japan will be happy and content with the progress of justice in this case and that it will not become a great issue in the future"

Howard Baker, Statesman

"Success in Iraq will be a major setback for terrorists and a major asset for the security of this region. The struggle for Iraq is the struggle for the future of the world"

Zalmay Khalilzad, Diplomat

"What I loved about 'Summer' was that they were these four bright kids with a wonderful future. In a way, she was the one with the brains, and then you have the beauty queen and the jock and the introvert"

Kevin Williamson, Author

"These kids are the future of the National Football League. They're the next generation that will be playing high school football, NCAA football, and some even to the pros"

Troy Vincent, Athlete

"A fixed image of the future is in the worst sense ahistorical"

Juliet Mitchell, Psychologist

"As for the United States' future in Afghanistan, it will be fire and hell and total defeat, God willing, as it was for their predecessors - the Soviets and, before them, the British"

Mohammed Omar, Clergyman

"Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present"

Roger Babson, Educator

"A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future"

Leonard Bernstein, Composer

"The national unity government will need to implement a program that brings all Iraqis together, builds a happy future for the people of Iraq, and gets Iraq to stand on its own feet"

Zalmay Khalilzad, Diplomat

"The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors"

Tristan Tzara, Artist

"It's nice to establish yourself as an actor first and a singer second. Proof is such a tremendous piece of work, and I'm incredibly lucky to be a part of it. I'm sure that the musicals will happen in the future, though"

Neil Patrick Harris, Actor

"The only hope I can see for the future depends on a wiser and braver use of the reason, not a panic flight from it"

F. L. Lucas, Critic

"It takes a lot of experience of life to see why some relationships last and others do not. But we do not have to wait for a crisis to get an idea of the future of a particular relationship. Our behavior in little every incidents tells us a great deal"

Eknath Easwaran, Author

"I listen to other guitar players, yeah. It gives me new concepts and shows me where the instrument is going for the future and it is going some places. There are some musicians who are really putting out a good vibe with new theories. I try and keep up"

George Benson, Musician

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