Future Quotes

I don't have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary.
– William Gibson
I've had a growing frustration, particularly when I would go out and do book tours and interviews. I got frustrated with people asking me, How do you know what the future is going to be like? And I'd always say, I don't.
– William Gibson
The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet.
– William Gibson
I believe education in music, theater, dance, and the visual arts is one of the most I believe that as a part of the educational process, each child should have access to a music education program. That is part of a well-rounded education and can provide so much joy, now and in the future.
– Rudy Giuliani
Only mothers can think of the future-because they give birth to it in their children.
– Maxim Gorky
I think back through the years at the Scottish players like Andy Gray and Graeme Sharp, and even Alex Scott, and they have all done well. I'm not one for the future. I know that. But I think I can do a job.
– Richard Gough
The USA have recently done well in the Olympics and the Youth World Cup. So I think there will be some good young players available in the future, and not too expensive which is important to the club.
– Richard Gough
Education is the foundation upon which we build our future.
– Christine Gregoire
It is up to us to live up to the legacy that was left for us, and to leave a legacy that is worthy of our children and of future generations.
– Christine Gregoire
We must work to help all families and all communities realize their dream of a better future.
– Christine Gregoire
Whenever in future wars the battle is fought, armored troops will play the decisive role.
– Heinz Guderian
I have memories - but only a fool stores his past in the future.
– David Gerrold
I thank God tonight for freedom - - those who bought and paid for it with their lives in the past - - those who will protect it in the present and defend it in the future.
– Jim Gibbons
The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some skill to do useful service, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community-these are the most vital things education must try to produce.
– Virginia Gildersleeve
We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.
– Gunther Grass
I'm an American man, and I'm concerned about the present and the future as has as this country and its people are concerned.
– Herbie Hancock
That's one of the reasons for the title of the record, Future 2 Future, because here they are creating kind of a new musical approach, underground approach, but coming out of what used to be underground but what has become popular, which is the whole hip-hop scene.
– Herbie Hancock
The thing is, much of the way I look at music now, and its role as an aspect of culture, and creative expression for human beings in the 21st century, much of the way I look at it for a record like Future 2 Future is very similar to how I might look at it for a record like Directions in Music.
– Herbie Hancock
There are some other things I'm looking for in the future. I'm getting ready to put together something, to open up a new avenue for myself, having to do with a symphony orchestra.
– Herbie Hancock
When I did Future 2 Future, it occurred to me, that I hadn't really done anything in electric music in a while.
– Herbie Hancock
While knowledge may provide useful point of reference, it cannot become a force to guide the future.
– Herbie Hancock
Wisdom corresponds to the future; it is philosophy.
– Herbie Hancock
Without wisdom, the future has no meaning, no valuable purpose.
– Herbie Hancock
A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.
– Sydney J. Harris
I am writing this because I love you, so that sustained within your warming heart our future days remain locked-to this simple message.
– Brian Harris
In should be the duty of every soldier to reflect on the experiences of the past, in the endeavor to discover improvements, in his particular sphere of action, which are practicable in the immediate future.
– B. H. Liddell Hart
But, I don't want to assume that our tradition of excellence is a guarantee of future excellence.
– Dave Heineman
I believe education is the great equalizer. Our children are our hope for the future, so we have an obligation to provide them with the tools to succeed. There is no more powerful tool than knowledge.
– Dave Heineman
You can expect to find these four priorities - education, economic vitality, efficiency in government and the protection of families - woven into my decisions as Governor. They will serve as my compass as I work with you to chart a future course for our state.
– Dave Heineman
The world wants disarmament, the world needs disarmament. We have it in our power to help fashion future history.
– Arthur Henderson
We cannot give up hope for the future of humanity because it is our destiny to shape that future for good or ill.
– Arthur Henderson
Music is the most important thing. I'm thinking of my future. There has to be something new, and I want to be part of it. I want to lead an orchestra with excellent musicians. I want to play music which draws pictures of the world and its space.
– Jimi Hendrix
Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.
– Frank Herbert
The greatest problem is not how to continue but how to exalt our existence. The call for a life beyond the grave is presumptuous, if there is no cry for eternal life prior for our deacending to the grave. Eternity is not perpetual future but perpetual presence. He has planted in us the seed of eternal life. The world to come is not only a hereafter but also a herenow.
– Abraham Joshua Heschel
Right now, I'm thinking in terms of just having a good band, man. Having a good act for the stage. Being a good performer, you know? Connected to that is future recordings, and future tunes, that kind of stuff.
– Dan Hicks
If you lose the history of F1, that could be damaging to the long-term future of F1.
– Damon Hill
The whole experience is rising to the challenge every time. You never know what might happen. You might be talking to the future world champion.
– Damon Hill
If we're going to create the best business climate to create higher paying jobs and retain our young people, we're going to have to build a workforce prepared for the opportunities of the future.
– John Hoeven
We can reach our potential, but to do so, we must reach within ourselves. We must summon the strength, the will, and the faith to move forward - to be bold - to invest in our future.
– John Hoeven
The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
– Eric Hoffer
Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.
– John Holt
You will see, in the future I will live by my watercolors.
– Winslow Homer
The difference between the Paleo-cranks and the Commie-cranks is that the Communists are in love with an America in the future that's designed in their image and the Paleos are in love with the America of the 18th Century. That's the difference, but they share a common attitude towards America as it exists today.
– David Horowitz
If I told you that the big contract had nothing to do with my signing, I'd be lying. It made the future secure for my family.
– Bobby Hull
For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.
– Hubert H. Humphrey
I am totally against the idea that a Muslim woman should not have the same opportunities as a Muslim man to learn, to open up, to work, help shape the future. To close Islam down to a sexist approach is totally intolerable and ridiculous. It's not Islam.
– King Hussein
I believe that the Arab world is never going to be a united nation, as had been hoped in the Arab Revolt, but something in a more modern context, similar to Europe. It is the only way. We have developed within each part of the Arab world our own identities, and unity in the future must be a unity of sovereign equals.
– King Hussein
My dearest wish is for the verdict of future generations to be for me and not against me, since I realize that shouldering responsibility at this point in time entails an acceptance of life's voyage under the most difficult circumstances, which are viciously inimical to those with a great heart and living conscience.
– King Hussein
We believe that peace is not just signed papers, but rather a contract between generations for the building of a more promising and less threatening future.
– King Hussein
Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind of randomization. But chicken guts are hard to read and invite flights of fancy or corruption.
– Ian Hacking
For all of the difficulties, I am somewhat optimistic about the future. In my lifetime I have seen the resiliency of American democracy.What I've come to admire is the muscularity and flexibility of this society. What I trust is its common sense.
– David Halberstam
The one with the primary responsibility to the individual's future is that individual.
– Dorcas Hardy
If we can recognize that change and uncertainty are basic principles, we can greet the future and the transformation we are undergoing with the understanding that we do not know enough to be pessimistic.
– Hazel Henderson
I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on the frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words. When I was a boy, we were taught to be discrete and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise and impatient of restraint.
– Hesiod
In the future the way that Whittaker Chambers was able to carry out forgery by typewriter will be disclosed.
– Alger Hiss
Arms control has to have a future, or none of us does. But it doesn't necessarily have to come in big packages of 600-page treaties.
– Stanley Hoffmann
In the future we'll all have 15 minutes of fame and 15 minutes of healthcare.
– Nicole Hollander
It is my firm belief that I have a link with the past and a responsibility to the future. I cannot give up. I cannot despair. There's a whole future, generations to come. I have to keep trying.
– King Hussein
Yes, prudently invested contributions to the Social Security fund may bring greater dividends, but those contributions would also face a greater risk. It would be like gambling. We should not gamble with the investments and the future of the citizens of this land.
– Daniel Inouye
I couldn't speak Japanese very well, passport regulations were changing, I felt British, and my future was in Britain. And it would also make me eligible for literary awards. But I still think I'm regarded as one of their own in Japan.
– Kazuo Ishiguro
The Southern past, the Southern present, the Southern future became one of red clay pine barrens, of chain-gang camps, of housewives dressed in flour sacks who stare all day dully down into dirty sinks.
– Randall Jarrell
There is nothing more important to our Nation's future, to our homeland security, and to our economy than ensuring we have a top-notch educational system that is the envy of the world.
– James Jeffords
It does seem so pleasant to talk with an old acquaintance who knows what you know. I see so many new folks nowadays who seem to have neither past nor future. Conversation has got to have some root in the past, or else you have got to explain every remark you make, and it wears a person out.
– Sarah Orne Jewett
I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
– Pauline Kael
Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.
– Garson Kanin
Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.
– Helen Keller
While the Government has a responsibility to its citizens to be prepared, to take steps to protect them, it is also the Government's role to ensure that her citizens can continue with their role - which is to be productive, to generate jobs, to put meals on their tables, to guide our children to a bright future.
– Dirk Kempthorne
You have it within your grasp to be regarded as one of the greatest legislative sessions in the history of the state. If you're bold and if you're ready to aggressively reach for our future, all the ingredients are here. The opportunities are waiting for us.
– Dirk Kempthorne
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
– John F. Kennedy
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.
– John F. Kennedy
I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.
– John F. Kennedy
I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty, which will protect the beauty of our natural environment, which will preserve the great old American houses and squares and parks of our national past and which will build handsome and balanced cities for our future.
– John F. Kennedy
Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.
– John F. Kennedy
To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.
– John F. Kennedy
From the moment I take office, I will stand up to the special interests and stand with hardworking families so that we can give America back its future and its ideals.
– John F. Kerry
NAFTA recognizes the reality of today's economy - globalization and technology. Our future is not in competing at the low-level wage job; it is in creating high-wage, new technology jobs based on our skills and our productivity.
– John F. Kerry
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
– Charles F. Kettering
The future can be anything we want it to be, providing we have the faith and that we realize that peace, no less than war, required blood and sweat and tears.
– Charles F. Kettering
The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present.
– Ellen Key
The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
– John Maynard Keynes
The right to private property meant at the same time the right and duty to be personally concerned about your own well-being, to be personally concerned about your family's income, to be personally concerned about your future. This is hard work.
– Mikhail Khodorkovsky
If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in the struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolute night of bitterness, and your chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos.
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, There lived a great people - a black people - who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization.
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
I may return to the stage, but not in the foreseeable future.
– Ben Kingsley
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.
– Herb Kohl
It is a sad commentary that today we face a choice between having schools that are a monument to our past - or schools that will be the lifeblood of our future. But since that is our choice, let us resolve to choose wisely.
– Ted Kulongoski
The power to shape Oregon's future remains where it has always been - in our collective hands.
– Ted Kulongoski
We cannot turn the clock back nor can we undo the harm caused, but we have the power to determine the future and to ensure that what happened never happens again.
– Paul Kagame
If we intend to provide a better life, and a better world, for future generations, we can't ignore the quality of the environment we leave them.
– John Kasich
I'm interested in stories about people as we knew them in the near-recent future.
– Philip Kaufman
Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.
– Bil Keane
In the course of fighting the present fire, we must not abandon our efforts to create fire-resistant structures of the future.
– Randy Kehler
The future is religion and commerce, aphrodisiac and Benzedrine, a mother of mysterious comfort and a mistress of familiar ravishments ever on the verge of embracing or destroying us.
– Eugene Kennedy
We not only romanticize the future; we have also made it into a growth industry, a parlor game and a disaster movie all at the same time.
– Eugene Kennedy
Bahrain 's margin of freedom is growing day after day as we head into the future with steady steps.
– Hamad bin Isla Al Khalifi
Fortunately for children, the uncertainities of the present always give way to the enchanted possibilities of the future.
– Gelsey Kirkland
Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there.
– John P. Kotter
We are a blessed people and, with God s guidance, our smiles might even become laughter in the not too distant future.
– John Agyekum Kufuor
From politics and business to music and food to culture, African-Americans have helped to shape our state's colorful past and its future.
– Mary Landrieu
The future looks extremely bright indeed, with lots of possibilities ahead - big possibilities. Like the song says, We've just begun.
– Bruce Lee