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Future Quotes


"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."


"Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present, and what to plan for in the future."


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


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



"As a Christian your future is secure."


"You will in the future hear me on a pop album, but that's just the experimental side of me."


"I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate."


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


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


"We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror."


"My contract is just for this year, but I have an option for next year. It is not signed at this moment, but I am only concentrating on this year. I don't know exactly what I will do in the future."


"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?"


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


"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."


"You go out there and ask them what their future is today. If we don't build that today, there's nothing."


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


"I can't say I can foresee the future and tell the stars, you know. But I do have an understanding for my own reality, just elements and things that I've learned from."


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


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


"Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible."


"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."


"A fixed image of the future is in the worst sense ahistorical."



"If we can't begin to agree on fundamentals, such as the elimination of the most abusive forms of child labor, then we really are not ready to march forward into the future."


"To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis, which is to say, a nothingness. Here and now is what we must contend with."


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


"The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face."


"Our lifestyle, our wildlife, our land and our water remain critical to our definition of Wyoming and to our economic future."


"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."


"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."


"I believe you can remember the future as much as the past."


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


"The 20th Century was the century of Aviation and the century of Globalization. The next century will be the century of Space."
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