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Future Quotes



"We've had great successes, but our future is not about our past success. It's going to be about whether we will invent things that are really going to drive our future."


"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."


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


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



"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."


"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."


"What kind of town do we want in the future, and how are we going to plan on that?"


"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."


"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."



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


"And the university's reputation will only continue to grow as stories like Elaine's are spread. Delaware State University's motto 'a past to honor, a future to insure,' couldn't be any more fitting for this transitional period you are going through."



"You never want to think the best things are in the past. You want to get yourself to believe that the best things are going to be in the future."


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


"I'm always interested in looking forward toward the future. Carving out new ways of looking at things."


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


"As a Christian your future is secure."


"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."


"What a wonderful word, future. Of all the abstractions we can articulate to ourselves, of all the concepts we have that other animals do not, how extraordinary the ability to consider a time that's never been experienced. And how tragic not to consider it. It galls us, we with such a limited future, to see someone brush it aside as meaningless, when it has an endless capacity for meaning, and an endless number of meanings that can be found within it."


"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?"



"And in the future, you know, maybe there's kids in the future for me, I don't really know. The interesting thing with me is that there has never been a woman doing what I'm doing at this level for this long. So, it's like, would Vince give me maternity leave?"


"The truly important people in our lives are always in our future."


"The taste of the usual was like cinders in his mouth, and there were moments when he felt as if he were being buried alive under his future."


"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."


"Read the stories of the past to write your story for the future."


"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."


"In charting our course to the future, we are mindful of our path from the past."


"The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be."


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