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Future Quotes


"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?"


"That's one of the most exciting things about Michigan's future. We need to, we must capitalize on our alternative-energy vehicles that we can produce right here."


"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."


"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."



"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."


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


"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."


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


"If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future."


"The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious."


"Denver is a city that will be far more defined by its future than its past."


"I think I will have a lot of opportunities in the future."


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


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


"Isn't it amazing the way the future succeeds in creating an appropriate past?"


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



"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."


"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 can tell the future?''More like the future mugs me from time to time.' Rachel said'I speak prophecies. The oracle spirit kind of hijacks me once in a while, and speaks important stuff that doesn't make any sense to anybody. But yeah, the prophecies tell the future."


"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."


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


"There's certainly more new SF available than when I started writing. That means there's also more bad SF available. Whether there is also more good is a matter for future historians of the field."


"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."


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