Future Quotes: Visions and Inspirations for Tomorrow (Page 8)

"So I don't really have a clear plan, in terms of music, as to where I want to head in the future"

"A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs"

"I just don't want to live like I used to. And at some point, I'm going to put a gag order on myself in terms of talking about the past. I've got to slam the door and deal with the present and the future"

Charlie Sheen, Actor

"In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future"

Stendhal, Writer

"Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future"

Jimmy Carter, President

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams"

Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady

"The best prophet of the future is the past"

George Byron, Poet

"In the unity of our nations rests the glorious future of our peoples"

Simon Bolivar, Leader

"When I was born in 1942, World War II was still going. And I began to realize when I became a young adult that if we don't teach our kids a better way of relating to their fellow human beings, the very future of humanity on the planet is in jeopardy"

Graham Nash, Musician

"The challenges of change are always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges that confront this nation and realize that we each have a role that requires us to change and become more responsible for shaping our own future"

Hillary Clinton, Politician

"The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past"

Robertson Davies, Novelist

"And we... right from moment one, we were always kinda up against the wall a little bit when it came to the future of the show. There were always rumors"

Will Arnett, Actor

"The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now"

James A. Baldwin, Author

"Isn't it a shame that future generations can't be here to see all the wonderful things we're doing with their money?"

Earl Wilson, Athlete

"Many men hoard for the future husbands of their wives"

Solomon Ibn Gabriol, Poet

"The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future"

Hubert H. Humphrey, Politician

"The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble"

Elias Canetti, Author

"There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now"

James A. Baldwin, Author

"Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before"

Audre Lorde, Poet

"Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future"

Ayn Rand, Writer

"The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell"

Zora Neale Hurston, Dramatist

"How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children"

Charles Darwin, Scientist

"At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world"

Charles Darwin, Scientist

"The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind"

Thomas Hobbes, Philosopher

"A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future"

Oliver Goldsmith, Poet

"Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy"

Alfred Adler, Psychologist

"As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man"

Samuel Richardson, Novelist

"The future starts today, not tomorrow"

Pope John Paul II, Clergyman

"There won't be editors in the future with the Internet world, with citizen reporting. That doesn't scare me"

Matt Drudge, Journalist

"I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future"

Carl Sandburg, Poet

"Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself"

Jose Ortega Y Gasset, Philosopher

"The future belongs to those who prepare for it today"

Malcolm X, Activist

"There is still a future with music, because people want music"

Maynard James Keenan, Musician

"I follow my conscience - and this is upsetting to some people, but I maintain the conscience is going to be the only thing between us and communication in the future"

Matt Drudge, Journalist

"I envision a future where there'll be 300 million reporters, where anyone from anywhere can report for any reason. It's freedom of participation absolutely realized"

Matt Drudge, Journalist