Future Quotes

"I write a lot too, so I would like to write or direct in the future if I can"

Alexis Bledel, Actress

"The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving"

Gloria Steinem, Activist

"What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?"

Thomas Kempis, Writer

"The future is made of the same stuff as the present"

Simone Weil, Philosopher

"If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe"

Simone Weil, Philosopher

"In the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes"

Andy Warhol, Artist

"It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream"

Edgar Allan Poe, Poet

"The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future"

Lord Acton, Historian

"You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future"

Warren G. Bennis, Psychologist

"Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion"

Al Goldstein, Publisher

"The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment"

Warren G. Bennis, Psychologist

"I am totally against the idea that a Muslim woman should not have the same opportunities as a Muslim man to learn, to open up, to work, help shape the future. To close Islam down to a sexist approach is totally intolerable and ridiculous. It's not Islam"

King Hussein I, Statesman

"We believe that peace is not just signed papers, but rather a contract between generations for the building of a more promising and less threatening future"

King Hussein I, Statesman

"Only through acknowledgment of the erasure and void of Jewish life can the history of Berlin and Europe have a human future"

Daniel Libeskind, Architect

"Send me one hundred francs on our future deals, otherwise I will disappear in a cataclysm"

Camille Claudel, Sculptor

"The future of Indo-Pak cricket will depend on how the peace process goes"

Imran Khan, Politician

"As for the future, we are equally determined to explore all possibilities of getting rid, once and for all, of the huge Arab minority which originally threatened us"

Moshe Sharett, Statesman

"Projecting a persuasive image of a desirable and practical future is extremely important to high morale, to dynamism, to consensus, and in general to help the wheels of society turn smoothly"

Herman Kahn, Scientist

"Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more; if future fortunes were known before!"

John Dryden, Poet

"In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and plural at a lower cost. If you cannot accurately predict the future then you must flexibly be prepared to deal with various possible futures"

Edward de Bono, Psychologist

"When I joined the Communist movement in 1935 it was based upon the belief that mankind's future was to be found there. Certainly, millions who joined it the world over, like myself, didn't join it for profit"

Albert Maltz, Author

"The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments"

Gustave Flaubert, Novelist

"God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are"

Billy Graham, Clergyman

"Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself"

Andrew Carnegie, Businessman

"The people in charge, globally, are maniacs. They are maniacs, and unless we do something about it these people are going to deprive us of a future"

Thom Yorke, Musician

"The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country"

J. Robert Oppenheimer, Physicist

"Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place - service - social service - the ants creed, the bees creed"

John Galsworthy, Author

"If you do not think about your future, you cannot have one"

John Galsworthy, Author

"I was planning on my future as a homeless person. I had a really good spot picked out"

Larry David, Actor

"We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are"

Henry A. Kissinger, Statesman

"The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify the future"

Jorge Luis Borges, Poet

"When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness"

Alexis de Tocqueville, Historian

"Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future"

Ulysses S. Grant, President

"I'm pro-life. I'll do all I can to see every baby is created with a future and potential. The legislature should do all it can to protect human life"

Sarah Palin, Politician

"Let the future remain uncertain, for that is the canvas to receive our desires"

Brian Herbert, Author

"The Universe operates on a basic principle of economics: everything has its cost. We pay to create our future, we pay for the mistakes of the past. We pay for every change we make . . . and we pay just as dearly if we refuse to change"

Brian Herbert, Author

"The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future"

Marya Mannes, Journalist

"As a matter of fact, when compression technology came along, we thought the future in 1996 was about voice. We got it wrong. It is about voice, video, and data, and that is what we have today on these cell phones"

Steve Buyer, Politician

"Parents are like shuttles on a loom. They join the threads of the past with threads of the future and leave their own bright patterns as they go"

Fred Rogers, Celebrity

"The future for us is the foreseeable future. The South Asian, however, feels that it is perfectly realistic to think of a 'long time' in terms of thousands of years"

Edward T. Hall, Scientist

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