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Future Quotes



"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."


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


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



"I've got two young kids. I don't know what the future holds."


"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."


"No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now."


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



"It is difficult to think of anything more important than providing the best education possible for our children. They will develop the next technologies, medical cures, and global industries, while mitigating their unintended effects, or they will fail to do these things and consign us all to oblivion."


"It's a very cheery thing to come into London by any of these lines which run high and allow you to look down upon the houses like this."I thought he was joking, for the view was sordid enough, but he soon explained himself."Look at those big, isolated clumps of buildings rising up above the slates, like brick islands in a lead-coloured sea.""The board-schools.""Light-houses, my boy! Beacons of the future! Capsules with hundreds of bright little seeds in each, out of which will spring the wiser, better England of the future."


"You have to be able to risk your identity for a bigger future than the present you are living."



"Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future."


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


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


"The future of publishing lies with the small and medium-sized presses, because the big publishers in New York are all part of huge conglomerates."



"It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task."



"All this improvement is great, but all that does is get us in the game to play for improvements that we need in the future, so that we can be aggressive in the marketplace."


"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 you live forever and don't age, it gives you time to hope."


"Tomorrow is the mysterious unknown guest."


"You can't plan for the future, because some guy's going to land in a spaceship with three heads and a big beak and take over everything."


"We need to take steps to strengthen and mend Social Security so that its promise of a secure retirement is just as real for seniors in the future as it is today."


"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."


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


"In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and plural at a lower cost. If you cannot accurately predict the future then you must flexibly be prepared to deal with various possible futures."


"The USA have recently done well in the Olympics and the Youth World Cup. So I think there will be some good young players available in the future, and not too expensive which is important to the club."



"The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling of a freer and wiser humanity."



"Deficits mean future tax increases, pure and simple. Deficit spending should be viewed as a tax on future generations, and politicians who create deficits should be exposed as tax hikers."


"I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely seriously disturb himself or herself and how to overcome disturbance when it occurs."


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


"One of the deepest functions of a living organisms is to look ahead... to produce future."


"I never have plans for the future as you never know how things will turn out."
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