Future Quotes

Everything that ever happened is still happening. Past, present and future keep happening in the eternity which is Here and Now.
– James Broughton
Everything about my politics has been about the future.
– David Miliband
Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.
– Steve Jobs
Everybody has to be able to participate in a future that they want to live for. That's what technology can do.
– Dean Kamen
Every year, I am reminded of the kids who aren't in the freshman class and aren't graduating. I remember every single one of them. That is the worst of times for me, to see the future snuffed out.
– Donna Shalala
Every President that went to China, I would meet them and have dinner and talk about the past and the future. That was in the '70s.
– Jet Li
Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.
– Michel de Montaigne
Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.
– Henry Miller
Even though the future seems far away, it is actually beginning right now.
– Mattie Stepanek
Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.
– Franklin D. Roosevelt
Doctors, dressed up in one professional costume or another, have been in busy practice since the earliest records of every culture on earth. It is hard to think of a more dependable or enduring occupation, harder still to imagine any future events leading to its extinction.
– Lewis Thomas
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.
– Ron Paul
Customers don't know what they want. There's plenty of good psychology research that shows that people are not able to accurately predict how they would behave in the future. So asking them, 'Would you buy my product if it had these three features?' or 'How would you react if we changed our product this way?' is a waste of time. They don't know.
– Eric Ries
Control your own destiny or someone else will.
– Jack Welch
Comedy was the key to everything. I grew up fast and controlled my future by bringing it on faster than it naturally unfolded. I cheated myself out of a childhood but then got a running headstart into adulthood that no one else could keep up with.
– Margaret Cho
Clearly, some creative thinking is badly needed if humans are to have a future beyond Earth. Returning to the Moon may be worthy and attainable, but it fails to capture the public's imagination. What does get people excited is the prospect of a mission to Mars.
– Paul Davies
Children are our future we must take care of them with maximum effort.
– Naomi Campbell
Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
– Horace
Cartooning is a wonderful career, and I'd like more women to get to have it. I can't think of any reason why we won't see more syndicated female cartoonists in the future.
– Cathy Guisewite
Cambodia possesses now the rights to look far into the future and everything for making a future construction is waiting for the Cambodian own efforts.
– Hun Sen
By failing seriously to confront the most predicable economic crisis in our nation's history, the President's policies are committing us and our children to a diminished future.
– Paul Ryan
By encouraging conservation, increasing investments in clean, renewable sources of energy, and promoting increased domestic production of oil and gas, we can build a more secure future for our country.
– Ron Lewis
By doing something positive in this world, you're helping people and the future. We're all trying to help the world... make it a better place to live. We're actually still changing the world, aren't we?
– Rick Danko
But there's one thing we are not going to compromise at all: when it comes to security of Israeli citizens and the State of Israel, there are not going to be any compromises - not now and not in the future.
– Ariel Sharon
But I dare not think too far into the future on the risk that I'll miss the present.
– Colin Farrell
Blowing up buses will not induce the Israelis to move forward, and neither will the killing of Palestinians or the demolition of their homes and their future. All this needs to stop. And we pledge that Jordan will do its utmost to help achieve it.
– King Abdullah II
Blade Runner appears regularly, two or three times a year in various shapes and forms of science fiction. It set the pace for what is essentially urban science fiction, urban future and it's why I've never re-visited that area because I feel I've done it.
– Ridley Scott
Between France and Senegal there's a history. There's a language that we both speak. There's a culture that we share and to which both of our peoples have contributed. But beyond our history, beyond our language, beyond the links that have united us for so long, what unites us today is the future.
– Francois Hollande
Because the time has come, well and truly come, for all peoples of our great country, for all citizens of our great commonwealth, for all Australians - those who are indigenous and those who are not - to come together to reconcile and together build a new future for our nation.
– Kevin Rudd
At this early stage in our evolution, now through our infancy and into our childhood and then, with luck, our growing up, what our species needs most of all, right now, is simply a future.
– Lewis Thomas
At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world.
– Charles Darwin
At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.
– Maurice Maeterlinck
As we divest ourselves of once familiar physical objects - digitize and dematerialize - we approach a 'Star Trek' future in which everything can be accessed from the fourth dimension with a few clicks or terse audibles.
– James Wolcott
As much as we all talk about the future and how so many things are merging, there is a simplicity that is crucial.
– Ryan Seacrest
As more people use social media to tell the story of the future, the wants and needs of more people will be reflected.
– Simon Mainwaring
As long as our civilisation keeps trundling along generally forwards, then there is the possibility of a future where ethnicity is merely an interesting badge, not a uniform you can't take off.
– David Mitchell
As long as I do a good job, I believe the future is going to take care of itself, but actually I like very much being in elected office and there is no consideration about doing anything different until I can be assured that we are going to have the best voting systems in the country.
– Katherine Harris
As I've said, there were patriots who supported this war, and patriots who opposed it. And all of us are united in appreciation for our servicemen and women, and our hopes for Iraqis' future.
– Barack Obama
As children, as we learn what things are, we are slowly learning to dismiss them visually. As adults, entirely submerged in words and concepts, we spend almost all of our time thinking and worrying about the past and the future, hardly ever looking at or engaging with the world visually.
– Chris Ware
As an American I wanted to explore... why are we the only first world country that still has capital punishment? Is it because we're too afraid to really examine the system, or is it because we really truly believe that this is the best way to deter future crime?
– Jodi Picoult
As a nation we have the right to decide our own affairs, to mould our own future. This does not pose any danger to anybody. Our nation is fully aware of the responsibility for its own fate in the complicated situation of the contemporary world.
– Lech Walesa
As a kid, I'd go into the bathroom when I was having a tantrum. I'd be in the bathroom crying, studying myself in the mirror. I was preparing for future roles.
– Adam Sandler
As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.
– Samuel Richardson
Anything you're trying to will is focused on the future it's always associated with some sort of anxiety that makes the present moment somewhat uncomfortable.
– Martha Beck
And when these advances are made, hydrogen can fill critical energy needs beyond transportation. Hydrogen can also be used to heat and generate electricity for our homes. The future possibilities of this energy source are enormous.
– Dan Lipinski
And time itself? Time was a never-ending medium that stretched into the future and the past - except there was no future and no past, but an infinite number of brackets, extending either way, each bracket enclosing its single phase of the Universe.
– Clifford D. Simak
And that's the mission of The Innocence Project in New York, is to exonerate people who have been wrongfully convicted, and also work from a policy angle with Congress and state legislatures to prevent future wrongful convictions.
– John Grisham
And that's how we build the economy of the future. An economy with more jobs and less debt, we root it in fairness. We grow it with opportunity. And we build it together.
– Elizabeth Warren
And as I grew older, I then auditioned for the Royal Academy of Music in London, and they said, well, no, we won't accept you, because we haven't a clue - you know - of the future of a so-called 'deaf' musician. And I just couldn't quite accept that.
– Evelyn Glennie
An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.
– Samuel Alexander
America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.
– Frederick Douglass
Also, it is interesting that developing countries, with China and India perhaps in the lead, where the future of the global environment will be decided are now on board with the case for sustainable development.
– Maurice Strong
All I can say is that I'm getting married in the future. I've narrowed it down to that.
– Tiger Woods
All historical experience demonstrates the following: Our earth cannot be changed unless in the not too distant future an alteration in the consciousness of individuals is achieved.
– Hans Kung
Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
– Steve Jobs
After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world hangs.
– Wallace Stevens
After the Berlin Wall came down I visited that city and I will never forget it. The abandoned checkpoints. The sense of excitement about the future. The knowledge that a great continent was coming together. Healing those wounds of our history is the central story of the European Union.
– David Cameron
After all, the past is our only real guide to the future, and historical analogies are instruments for distilling and organizing the past and converting it to a map by which we can navigate.
– Michael Mandelbaum
Africa has no future.
– V. S. Naipaul
Adolescence represents an inner emotional upheaval, a struggle between the eternal human wish to cling to the past and the equally powerful wish to get on with the future.
– Louise J. Kaplan
AARP knows the future is bright for a generation that's going to remain healthy and vital for 10, 20, 30, 40 more years. AARP has the information and resources people need throughout their process of reinvention.
– Jane Pauley
A women who doesn't wear perfume has no future.
– Coco Chanel
A store's best advertisement is the service its goods render, for upon such service rest the future, the good-will, of an organization.
– James Cash Penney
A ring means a commitment. But more than that, it means that you've talked about your shared future and have decided together on a shared vision of it.
– Patti Stanger
A perfect storm is in the making: financial uncertainty, economic downturn, government cuts, rising unemployment and a future that looks less clear the more we try to fathom it.
– Jonathan Sacks
A nation that does not stand for its children does not stand for anything and will not stand tall in the future.
– Marian Wright Edelman
A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
– Honore de Balzac
A lost election can have the jolt of a drop through the gallows door, leading to a dark night of the soul in which the future presses down like a cloud that will never lift.
– James Wolcott
A healthy vision of the future is not possible without an accurate knowledge of the past.
– Daisaku Ikeda
A government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this nation.
– Barbara Jordan
A globalized world is by now a familiar fact of life. Building walls or moats may sound appealing, but the future belongs to those who tend to their people and then boldly engage the rest of the world, near and far.
– Jon Meacham
A coldly rationalist individualist can deny that he has any obligation to make sacrifices for the future.
– Garrett Hardin
'Robopocalypse' explores the intertwined fates of regular people who face a future filled with murderous machines. It follows them as humanity foments the robot uprising, fails to recognize the coming storm, and then is rocked to the core by methodical, crippling attacks.
– Daniel H. Wilson
Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.
– Alfred Adler
I can assure you that those villains [American's and British] will recognize, will discover in appropriate time in the future how stupid they are and how they are pretending things which have never taken place.
– Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
In some ways, September 11, 2001, seems a long time ago. Yet we have done so much in only a few years, and we will continue to do so in the future, to prevent such attacks on America.
– George Allen
The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.
– Stephen Ambrose
Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.
– Henri Frederic Amiel
What we call little things are merely the causes of great things; they are the beginning, the embryo, and it is the point of departure which, generally speaking, decides the whole future of an existence. One single black speck may be the beginning of a gangrene, of a storm, of a revolution.
– Henri Frederic Amiel
I have a great belief in the future of my people and my country.
– Marian Anderson
Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, ''This is a misfortune'' but ''To bear this worthily is good fortune.''
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
We invite all people to join us in working for a future of opportunity and hope.
– Abdallah II
America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.
– Jane Addams
I have seen the future and it is very much like the present, only longer.
– Kehlog Albran
IAzeris want to know why the Armenian lobby is so influential. What is the U.S. Congress afraid of? Is this lobby stronger than justice or truth or even elementary logic? Is it more important than future gigantic joint projects between Azerbaijan and the United States?
– Ilham Aliyev
Relying on journalists and stock-market professionals for one's view of the internet's future is like relying on a referendum of sugared-up 11-year-olds for an assessment of the Jolly Rancher and Pokemon industries.
– Kurt Anderson
Sports broadcasters are the only reporters who describe past events in the future tense.
– Burnett Anderson
Cricket World Cup 2007, provides us with a singular opportunity to propel the economy on a higher growth path and to achieve higher future potential growth rates. We need, however, to make the required investments now to benefit fully from Cricket World Cup.
– Kenny Davis Anthony
You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.
– Richard Bach
Is there any progress in horticulture? If not, it is dead, uninspiring. We cannot live in the past, good as it is; we must draw our inspiration from the future.
– Liberty Hyde Bailey
I think and hope and believe that the Japanese government and the people of Japan will be happy and content with the progress of justice in this case and that it will not become a great issue in the future.
– Howard Baker
There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.
– James A. Baldwin
Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future.
– J. G. Ballard
The Internet: Transforming Society and Shaping the Future Through Chat.
– Dave Barry
Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
– Simone de Beauvoir
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.
– George Benson
A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.
– Leonard Bernstein
Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.
– Aneurin Bevan
Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.
– Jim Bishop
Biofuels are the future of energy in this nation and around the world, and the National Corn-To-Ethanol Research Center is at the forefront of this developing industry.
– Rod Blagojevich