Future Quotes

"If we are to better the future we must disturb the present"

"There is no future. This is the season. Get to the Super Bowl"

"When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments for the Shell oil company, I was frequently reminded of an Arabic saying: 'Those who claim to foresee the future are lying, even if by chance they are later proved right.'"

Vince Cable, Politician

"By concentrating on what is good in people, by appealing to their idealism and their sense of justice, and by asking them to put their faith in the future, socialists put themselves at a severe disadvantage"

Ian Mcewan, Author

"You will in the future hear me on a pop album, but that's just the experimental side of me"

Dave Lombardo, Musician

"And we want to develop our strategy to partnership and friendship with the United States, which is connected with a very rich history but what is very important for our future"

Aleksander Kwasniewski, Politician

"I have long considered it one of God's greatest mercies that the future is hidden from us. If it were not, life would surely be unbearable"

Eugene Forsey, Politician

"I imagine a future aircraft, which will take off vertically, fly as usual, and land vertically. This flying machine should have no moving parts. This idea came from the huge power of cyclones"

Henri Coanda, Inventor

"Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible"

Hannah Arendt, Historian

"He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors"

Olympia Brown, Activist

"Arbor Day is not like other holidays. Each of those reposes on the past, while Arbor Day proposes for the future"

Julius Sterling Morton, Scientist

"You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands - your own"

Mark Victor Hansen, Businessman

"The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be"

Marcel Pagnol, Dramatist

"I know why I am here and my only real focused goal is to live each day to the fullest and to try and honor God and be an encouragement to others. What the future holds is firmly in God's hands, and I am very happy about that!"

Ken Hensley, Musician

"Aesthetically, we were enormously successful. Economically... there was no success. It was all about music of the future and unfortunately it was a band that didn't have any future"

Wayne Kramer

"The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious"

John Sculley, Businessman

"We do have some assistance from the World Bank but not from the IMF. We are not borrowing yet, but we are considering, in the future, borrowing from the Kuwait Fund to support our infrastructure development"

Jose Ramos-Horta

"The old welfare system was hurting people by discouraging work and marriage. Welfare reform, and now this legislation, will build on the understanding that work and strong families are the foundation upon which we build our future"

James Talent, Politician

"Simply cutting the taxes for America's wealthiest families is clearly not creating the needed new jobs, and that strategy is unlikely to succeed in the future"

Tim Johnson, Politician

"The public made me and then encouraged me for many years, and my future even now depends upon it"

Placido Domingo, Musician

"It's easy to imagine ways the future can be ugly and depressing. It's harder, but more worthwhile, to imagine plausible ways we can make it better"

Stanley Schmidt, Writer

"The artist is an educator of artists of the future who are able to understand and in the process of understanding perform unexpected - the best - evolutions"

Saul Steinberg, Artist

"It is strange. I see all the privileges and greatness of the future. It already looks grand, beautiful. Tell them I went lovingly, trustfully, peacefully"

Thomas Starr King, Clergyman

"Any political party that undertakes to do it will, in God's name, be trampled, as it ought to be trampled, into the dust of condemnation, now and in the future"

Richard Parks Bland, Politician

"What kind of town do we want in the future, and how are we going to plan on that?"

Peter Berg, Actor

"Public education is an investment in our future"

Matt Blunt, Politician

"Creation is all space, all time - all things past, present, and future"

Matthew Fox

"The most important thing about global warming is this. Whether humans are responsible for the bulk of climate change is going to be left to the scientists, but it's all of our responsibility to leave this planet in better shape for the future generations than we found it"

Mike Huckabee, Politician

"Vision is perhaps our greatest strength... it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the centuries, it makes us peer into the future and lends shape to the unknown"

Li Ka Shing, Businessman

"So I think that is from the European perspective, for the European future, this engagement can be one of the most important and effective decisions in the last 50 years maybe"

Aleksander Kwasniewski, Politician

"I'm praying that was my one little dip in the cancer pool. I hope never to have to revisit that, but I learned a lot, I'm cancer free with a bright and hopeful future"

Julie Gold, Musician

"We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves"

John Buchan, Politician

"In simple terms, we are aligning our business today with the way we believe future systems are going to be designed, acquired and maintained"

Phil Condit, Businessman

"The form of my poem rises out of a past that so overwhelms the present with its worth and vision that I'm at a loss to explain my delusion that there exist any real links between that past and a future worthy of it"

Hart Crane, Poet

"There is nothing more important to our Nation's future, to our homeland security, and to our economy than ensuring we have a top-notch educational system that is the envy of the world"

Jim Jeffords, Politician

"The more we shelter children from every disappointment, the more devastating future disappointments will be"

Fred G. Gosman

"Treatments and therapies have never been better in the face of this disease. You have every reason to be optimistic, determined, and focused on the future. My only other advice is to cherish every moment with those you love at every stage of your journey, as I have done this summer"

Jack Layton, Politician

"Bahrain 's margin of freedom is growing day after day as we head into the future with steady steps"

Hamad bin Isla Al Khalifi

"In particular, for younger researchers on whom the future of mankind may depend. We believe that they are working with all the scientific wisdom at their disposal for the preservation of the inheritance of the earth and for the lasting survival of mankind"

Kenichi Fukui, Scientist

"I think America has a brilliant future"

Harold Evans, Journalist

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