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Future Quotes


"It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising."


"Well, clearly, for me in the immediate future, it is grappling, like so many other governors are grappling, with the economic woes of these states. We were all hoping to see some federal relief."


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


"As far as the future for the Showtime episodes that have already aired, we are sold into syndication so we'll be appearing primarily on the Fox syndicated networks and then eventually the SCI FI Channel. So, we'll be around for a while."


"Seeds you plant today determine the harvest you reap tomorrow."


"Put simply, I want to treat my readers as partners and not crooks. There is no future in calling your most active promoters crooks."


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


"Getting our military back on stable footing won't happen overnight. We must start this process now, since future engagements are likely and allies are scarce."


"Some pirates achieved immortality by great deeds of cruelty or derring-do. Some achieved immortality by amassing great wealth. But the captain had long ago decided that he would, on the whole, prefer to achieve immortality by not dying."


"No one is more important to the future of our state than our teachers."


"The subject of criminal rehabilitation was debated recently in City Hall. It's an appropriate place for this kind of discussion because the city has always employed so many ex-cons and future cons."


"The second album of Black Mages is currently in the process of recording and the basic tracks have already been completed. Hopefully sometime in the future we will be able to have a concert."


"We've had to set a workshop up; we've had to equip the workshop and everything else. But all that equipment is there now and whatever projects they want to use it for in the future."


"I've seen the future and it's much like the present only longer."


"We need not be afraid of the future, for the future will be in our own hands."


"It's been a difficult thing because some great opportunities have come and I've just been holding my breath and praying... I'm basically gambling hoping something will come along this season and if not, I don't know what the future holds."


"It's easy to imagine ways the future can be ugly and depressing. It's harder, but more worthwhile, to imagine plausible ways we can make it better."


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


"The future is electronic. It's radio, television and the Internet; it's not really newspapers anymore."


"All along the untrodden paths of the future, I can see the footprints of an unseen hand."


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


"To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open."


"The taste of the usual was like cinders in his mouth, and there were moments when he felt as if he were being buried alive under his 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."


"Everything born has to die, in order to make room for the future."


"In the future, man will be able to create an artificial Sun which is very similar to the Sun in the sky that was once upon a time worshipped as a god!"


"Since the future is unknown, in every step forward we walk to the unknown!"



"The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment."


"Sometimes writers write about a world that does not yet exist. We do it for a hundred reasons. (Because it's good to look forward, not back. Because we need to illuminate a path we hope or we fear humanity will take. Because the world of the future seems more enticing or more interesting than the world of today. Because we need to warn you. To encourage. To examine. To imagine.) The reasons for writing about the day after tomorrow, and all the tomorrows that follow it, are as many and as varied as the people writing."


"I think in order to move forward into the future, you need to know where you've been."


"When the sappy boughs Attire themselves with blooms, sweet rudiments Of future harvest."


"You mustn't take what I say as gospel because no one can second-guess the future."


"We're trying to set up a movie for me in the near future. It's going to be similar to the story of how I got discovered. Kinda like my own version of '8 Mile.'"


"I understand perfectly. Darquesse isn't a separate entity. She isn't another person. She's you. If you make the wrong choices, if you stop loving the people who love you, if you allow the world to twist and turn and change you, then yes, the future we've seen will come to pass. But if you fight, and if you kick, and struggle, and refuse to give in to the apathy, or the anger, or the hopelessness, then you'll change the future, and you'll walk your own path. And I'll be right there beside you, Valkyrie. I'll always be beside you."


"If the whole world shared such experiences, we would then have common dreams and everybody could begin thinking about tomorrow. And if everybody thinks about tomorrow, then someday we can visit the sky together."
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