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Future Quotes


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


"We must reinvent a future free of blinders so that we can choose from real options."


"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."


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


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


"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."


"The 1980s will seem like a walk in the park when compared to new global challenges, where annual productivity increases of 6% may not be enough. A combination of software, brains, and running harder will be needed to bring that percentage up to 8% or 9%."


"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."


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


"Tomorrow is the mysterious unknown guest."


"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."


"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."


"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."


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


"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."


"Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too."


"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."


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


"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."


"I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer."


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


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


"The most reliable way to forecast the future is to try to understand the present."


"There's been a big void out there, in terms of where I've been and what I am currently working on, I'd like to fill that void now and share my exciting plans for the future."


"The dark shadow we seem to see in the distance is not really a mountain ahead, but the shadow of the mountain behind - a shadow from the past thrown forward into our future. It is a dark sludge of historical sectarianism. We can leave it behind us if we wish."


"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 would like to direct in the future, but I am in no hurry with that."
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