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Future Quotes


"The trouble with the future is that is usually arrives before we're ready for it."


"I think the future also will not belong to those who are cynical or those who stand on the sidelines."


"I have made good judgements in the past. I have made good judgements in the future."


"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."


"An asteroid or a supervolcano could certainly destroy us, but we also face risks the dinosaurs never saw: An engineered virus, nuclear war, inadvertent creation of a micro black hole, or some as-yet-unknown technology could spell the end of us."


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


"In choosing Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate, John McCain has chosen for the future."


"We know not of the future and cannot plan for it much."


"To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense."


"I see a vision, its the vision of tomorrow,no force can stop it from manifesting, not even the sun nor the moon."


"One of the deepest functions of a living organisms is to look ahead... to produce future."


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


"Pension reform can be hard to talk about. In the long run, reform now means fewer demands for layoffs and less draconian measures in the future. It's in the best interest of all Californians to fix this system now."


"The future comes quickly. Before you know it, you turn around and it's tomorrow."


"Future generations are not going to ask us what political party were you in. They are going to ask what did you do about it, when you knew the glaciers were melting."


"After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world hangs."


"The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?"


"We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims."


"I think that we have a responsibility to make certain that we are fiscally responsible in order to assure, frankly, future generations don't have to pay our bills."


"No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now."


"The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling of a freer and wiser humanity."


"I'm just saying that at least for the foreseeable future there won't be any more touring."


"In my opinion, the president is right to address future funding, even though Social Security will show a surplus through 2018 and will not run out of funds until 2042."


"I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is."


"When we get to the future, I'll determine the future."


"My theme is going to be: Together we can win the future. The right policies lead to the right results. And I'm going to argue that President Obama will lose the future because the wrong policies lead to the wrong results."


"We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is."


"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."


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


"Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too."


"Why have we had to invent Eden, to live submerged in the nostalgia of a lost paradise, to make up utopias, propose a future for ourselves?"


"I know no way of judging the future but by the past."


"You no longer have much in the way of knowing what to do in a big, epic novel about the future, because nobody knows what the hell is going to happen."


"And sometimes I sit down to write, because that is what I like to do more and more in the future."
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