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Future Quotes


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


"Perhaps at a later point important developments will be traced back to September 11. But for now we do not know which of the many scenarios will actually hold in the future."


"ALEC is one great organization, I think, for growing future political leaders."


"What's crucial is that the IRA produce a credible statement that paramilitary and criminality activity is a thing of the past. That they are committed to a future which is exclusively peaceful and democratic."


"Iraq assumes responsibility for its own future... They have got to step up."


"In the future the way that Whittaker Chambers was able to carry out forgery by typewriter will be disclosed."


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


"There's no future in spending our present worrying about our past."


"There is no justifiable prediction about how the hypothesis will hold up in the future; its degree of corroboration simply is a historical statement describing how severely the hypothesis has been tested in the past."


"I write a lot too, so I would like to write or direct in the future if I can."


"You never want to think the best things are in the past. You want to get yourself to believe that the best things are going to be in the future."


"Every possibility already exists. All knowledge, all discoveries, and all inventions of the future, are in the Universal Mind as possibilities, waiting for the human mind to draw them forth.Every creation and invention in history has also been drawn from the Universal Mind, whether the person consciously knew that or not."


"I decided that the only way there would be a future was to start to cut back."


"The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future."


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


"What are they going to do to me that they haven't done already? They took away my entire past. They took away my entire future. What's left for them to take?"



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


"Yeah, that's what I'm working for. The couture house of the future."


"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."


"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."


"If nations always moved from one set of furnished rooms to another - and always into a better set - things might be easier, but the trouble is that there is no one to prepare the new rooms. The future is worse than the ocean - there is nothing there."


"You will see, in the future I will live by my watercolors."


"The risk presented by these lethal wastes is like no other risk, and we should not be expected to accept it or to project it into the future in order for manufacturers and utilities to make a dollar killing now."


"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."


"I can't think of any more important issue. If we get this right, we'll not only preserve our landscape for future generations we'll be able to generate I think more investment and more job opportunities in the inland and we sure as hell need those jobs."


"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."


"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."


"The future is called 'perhaps,' which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you."


"All of the good stuff is going to be done in the future. The stuff we are doing now is crummy compared with what will finally mature."


"The prudent course is to make an investment in learning, testing and understanding, determine how the new concepts compare to how you now operate and thoughtfully determine how they apply to what you want to achieve in the future."
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