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Future Quotes


"Look at the United States today. We have made mistakes in the past. We have had shortcomings. We shall make mistakes in the future and fall short of our own best hopes."


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



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


"There is a different future that is available to North Korea, if they choose differently."


"How in heaven's name can a nation with a $1 trillion surplus threaten so much scientific research so vital to its future?"


"I knew I could not cope with the future unless I was able to rediscover the past."


"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."


"Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future."


"We need to open up the future. We also need to keep everything valuable from the past."



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


"I understand perfectly. Darquesse isn't a separate entity. She isn't another person. She's you. If you make the wrong choices, if you stop loving the people who love you, if you allow the world to twist and turn and change you, then yes, the future we've seen will come to pass. But if you fight, and if you kick, and struggle, and refuse to give in to the apathy, or the anger, or the hopelessness, then you'll change the future, and you'll walk your own path. And I'll be right there beside you, Valkyrie. I'll always be beside you."


"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."


"In addition, I'm finishing a track for the movie 'Waking Up In Reno', but there are numerous other singers I look forward to recording with in the near future."



"The risk presented by these lethal wastes is like no other risk, and we should not be expected to accept it or to project it into the future in order for manufacturers and utilities to make a dollar killing now."


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



"Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing 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."


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


"The future goes in incredible speed!"


"For all of its uncertainty, we cannot flee the future."


"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."


"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."


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


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


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


"Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past."



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