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Future Quotes


"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."


"One of my few shortcomings is that I can't predict the future."


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


"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."


"I am neither a sociologist nor a politician. All I can do is imagine for myself what the future will be like."


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


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


"For every minute, the future is becoming the past."


"I do look forward to doing things in the future that I haven't done before. Do you know what I have always dreamt about? Playing a serial killer!"


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


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


"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."


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


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


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


"The future is much like the present, only longer."


"My district includes the two urban centers of Charlotte and Fayetteville, as well as large rural areas. Obviously, these diverse segments of North Carolina require different approaches to meeting current and future transportation demands."


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


"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."


"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."


"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."


"During my 8 years as chairman, I had the privilege to peer into the future to see dynamic citizen astronauts returning to and from the heavens which we can expect in the future."


"I knew I could not cope with the future unless I was able to rediscover the past."


"The German future lies in the hands of our Fuehrer."


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


"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."


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