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Future Quotes


"For one thing, one of the wonderful things that we now have is instead of the huge budget surpluses that President Clinton left us with, we now have these huge deficits that we're going to be facing into the future."


"But there is a need to explore ways we can preserve the promise of Social Security for future generations."


"That's kind of like how jazz is sometimes. You're out there predicting the future, and no one believes you."


"The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine."


"If you really want something you just hang with it. We think our future's ahead and not behind."



"The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive."


"A coldly rationalist individualist can deny that he has any obligation to make sacrifices for 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."


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


"As we become the distant past, you become a future few of us would have imagined."



"There is no future. This is the season. Get to the Super Bowl."


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



"The future was one thing that could never be broken, because it had not yet had the chance to be anything."


"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."


"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."


"Tomorrow is the mysterious unknown guest."


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


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



"Taking part in these types of programs is crucial to our youth and crucial to the future of this game."


"I listen to other guitar players, yeah. It gives me new concepts and shows me where the instrument is going for the future and it is going some places. There are some musicians who are really putting out a good vibe with new theories. I try and keep up."


"Without a Mayaguez, or something comparable that we don't see in the immediate future, there is probably no one thing the President can do to himself to turn this situation around."


"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."


"The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors."


"We certainly will prepare consciously and professionally, but still you cannot predict the future."


"The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn."


"For the future, I would suggest avoiding subjects of too vast a scale. It would be useful to make out a list of fundamental questions on the matter to be dealt with, and discuss only those."


"It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago."


"The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given by heredity."


"We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible."


"Yes, the future certainly looks brighter now. I'm very happy with my group."


"Even in my darkest times I knew I had a good future ahead of me."


"I don't know what the future may hold, but I know who holds the future."


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


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


"Social Security is a program that should be strengthened and preserved for future generations."
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