Future Quotes

"For the next century, the Republicans have agreed that we will promote the dignity and future of every individual by building a free society under a limited, accountable government that protects liberty, security and prosperity for a brighter American dream"

Todd Tiahrt, Politician

"The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future"

E. T. Bell, Mathematician

"I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority"

E. B. White, Writer

"If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work"

Jacques Yves Cousteau, Explorer

"If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract teach him to deduct"

Fran Lebowitz, Journalist

"The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be"

Paul Valery, Poet

"My view is that targets, properly constructed and applied across public services have been fundamental to past successes and will be an essential part of sustaining progress into the future"

John Hutton, Educator

"In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to remember seven generations in the past and consider seven generations in the future when making decisions that affect the people"

Wilma Mankiller, Statesman

"I don't think anybody anywhere can talk about the future of their people or of an organization without talking about education. Whoever controls the education of our children controls our future"

Wilma Mankiller, Statesman

"The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be"

Paul Valery, Poet

"The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people"

Christopher Morley, Author

"The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on"

Barack Obama, President

"Our combat mission is ending, but our commitment to Iraq's future is not"

Barack Obama, President

"As I've said, there were patriots who supported this war, and patriots who opposed it. And all of us are united in appreciation for our servicemen and women, and our hopes for Iraqis' future"

Barack Obama, President

"The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue"

Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician

"Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past"

Bob Dylan, Musician

"I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change"

Bob Dylan, Musician

"Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living"

John Dewey, Philosopher

"Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future"

Susan Sontag, Author

"Wherever my work may take me in the near future even if you should see me one day within the fortress - you can always count on me as your reliable assistant"

Hjalmar Schacht, Economist

"I think the important thing now is to have a celebration and then with determination move into our common, shared, different future"

Michael D. Higgins, Politician

"The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips"

J. Paul Getty, Businessman

"I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro. This is a passionately racist country; it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future"

Susan Sontag, Author

"Head Start's ability to improve the educational skills and opportunities of Latino children will be an important component of America's future success"

Joe Baca, Politician

"The wave of the future is coming and there is no fighting it"

Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Writer

"Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation's history and the world's future"

Joe Baca, Politician

"Ireland has made its choice for the future and it has chosen the version of Irishness it will build. I know, and I will work with head and heart to be part of it with all of you in creating that future one in which all of us can be part of and part of us too"

Michael D. Higgins, Politician

"Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature"

Walter Savage Landor, Poet

"APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums"

Edsger Dijkstra, Scientist

"The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present"

Bill Watterson, Cartoonist

"The future ain't what it used to be"

Yogi Berra, Athlete

"To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light"

Jean Baudrillard, Sociologist

"America, which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today, hardly stops to enjoy it, in her insatiable appetite for the future"

Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Writer

"The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens"

Rainer Maria Rilke, Poet

"Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present - and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future"

Audrey Hepburn, Actress

"An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations"

Charles de Montesquieu, Philosopher

"One faces the future with one's past"

Pearl S. Buck, Novelist

"Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins"

Carlos Santana, Musician

"While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course"

Larry Bird, Coach

"The second album of Black Mages is currently in the process of recording and the basic tracks have already been completed. Hopefully sometime in the future we will be able to have a concert"

Nobuo Uematsu, Composer

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