Future Quotes

It looks like it's going to be Arnold Schwarzenegger or Gray Davis. You got a robot from the future or a robot with no future.
– Jay Leno
The American people deserve a budget that invests in the future, protects the most vulnerable among us and helps to create jobs and economic security.
– Carl Levin
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
– C. S. Lewis
Community means engaging constructively with like-minded nations to build strong, sustaining institutions and alliances - and bringing emerging powers into this community so future conflict becomes less likely.
– Joseph Lieberman
The assertion that all men are created equal was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.
– Abraham Lincoln
The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
– Abraham Lincoln
We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.
– Abraham Lincoln
If we are to give working mothers, fathers and their children an opportunity to live the American dream we must invest in their future.
– Blanche Lincoln
Whether it's making sure that families have access to quality health care and child care, or making sure that our children receive the best educational opportunities we can give them, we must remain committed to these needs because our children are our future.
– Blanche Lincoln
Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.
– Charles Lindbergh
But before looking to the future, let's glance back at the road we've traveled these past two years because that is the source of much of the optimism we are all feeling about the future.
– Linda Lingle
Sail on ship of state, sail on, I union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, with all its hopes of future years, is hanging on thy fate!
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act - act in the living Present! Heart within and God overhead.
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
American credibility in the world, progress in the war on terrorism, our relationships with our allies, the future of the Middle East, and the fate of Iraqis themselves depend on the resolve of the U.S. government and the American people in achieving a positive outcome in Iraq.
– Richard Lugar
The architecture of our future is not only unfinished; the scaffolding has hardly gone up.
– George Lamming
I am told that there is a proverbial phrase among the Inuit: 'A long time ago, in the future.' Let the children see our history, and maybe it will help to shape the future.
– Romeo LeBlanc
I'm not good at future planning. I don't plan at all. I don't know what I'm doing tomorrow. I don't have a day planner and I don't have a diary. I completely live in the now, not in the past, not in the future.
– Heath Ledger
I am determined that Congress should have the best possible information before making any decisions on the future of the Social Security program.
– Sheila Jackson Lee
The future belongs to people who see possibilities before they become obvious.
– Ted Levitt
As one went to Europe to see the living past, so one must visit Southern California to observe the future.
– Alison Lurie
I am treating you as my friend asking you share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you to share my future pluses.
– Katherine Mansfield
It is perhaps my greatest hope, Mr. President, that some day we'll consider tax and spending measures with no one else in mind but future generations of American taxpayers. We're tying a millstone of debt around their necks, and it is a grave mistake.
– John McCain
Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.
– Thomas Merton
Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.
– Barbara Mikulski
There is but one man to whom I am willing to entrust their future and that man's name is George Bush.
– Zell Miller
If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?
– Maria Montessori
People began to understand that with the acquisition of California the nation had obtained practically half a continent, of which the future possibilities were almost unlimited, so far as the development of natural resources and the genera production of wealth were concerned.
– John Moody
Instead of welcoming Reverend Moon, this government put me into prison. History will reveal the truth in the future and the American government and people will realize what an evil thing they did. What will they do then? They will bow down. Again, that is the way of natural subjugation.
– Sun Myung Moon
I told him everything and it was from him that I learned what my future would be.
– Jan Morris
Planning is the essence of good management and when it comes to health care we must allow states to plan for future needs. We need to cement this federal commitment to Alaskans so the state has the assurance that money vital for providing Medicaid health care will not just dry up and disappear.
– Lisa Murkowski
By working together to focus on our national priorities today we can ensure that the state of our union is strong for the future.
– Patty Murray
Fascism, the more it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity, quite apart from political considerations of the moment, believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace.
– Benito Mussolini
The future of the world belongs to the youth of the world, and it is from the youth and not from the old that the fire of life will warm and enlighten the world.It is your privilege to breathe the breath of life into the dry bones of many around you..
– Tom Mann
At this moment in our nation's history, cross-cultural understanding and global relationships are critical to the world. Now is not the time to discourage or dissuade the world's future decision-makers from studying, teaching or conducting research in the United States.
– Betty McCollum
If the Patriots feel that Tom Brady is their man and they want to dance the dance with him in the future, then Bledsoe will be expendable.
– Al Michaels
With us air people, the future of our nation is indissolubly bound up in the development of air power.
– Billy Mitchell
The future is wider than vision, and has no end.
– Donald Grant Mitchell
Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation in turn becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources - and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on in the future.
– Alberto Moravia
Arbor Day is not like other holidays. Each of those reposes on the past, while Arbor Day proposes for the future.
– Julius Sterling Morton
The people gave me the responsibility of building the future of this nation. And I did it with honor.
– Hosni Mubarak
I think a secure profession for young people is history teacher, because in the future, there will be so much more of it to teach.
– Bill Muse
In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn.
– John Naisbitt
We are excited about the music, past and present and future, and are really looking forward to playing.
– Graham Nash
When I was born in 1942, World War II was still going. And I began to realize when I became a young adult that if we don't teach our kids a better way of relating to their fellow human beings, the very future of humanity on the planet is in jeopardy.
– Graham Nash
Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.
– Earl Nightingale
My telephone calls and meetings and decisions were now parts of a prescribed ritual aimed at making peace with the past; his calls, his meetings and his decisions were already the ones that would shape America's future.
– Richard Milhous Nixon
There is only one Bride; God is not a bigamist. He took no gentile wife under the Old Covenant, and He will not accept a pale imitation of Old Covenant Israel - modern Judaism - as His wife in the future.
– Gary North
You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn't exist.
– Azar Nafisi
We must strive to encourage East and West not only to move towards each other but also to encourage them to find a new philosophy, a philosophy which will serve as a tool determining the future of Planet Earth - our common and only shelter.
– Nursultan Nazarbayev
The bump I was trying to hide could be the future king of England.
– Bruce Oldfield
My past is my wisdom to use today... my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.
– Gene Oliver
The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.
– J. Robert Oppenheimer
If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.
– George Orwell
People believe. They believe in the desire of state government to help. They believe that the overwhelming majority of state government employees and elected officials are honest. They believe that a troubled time in the history of our state does not necessarily mean the future is forever clouded.
– Bill Owens
We must look ahead to the future. With good planning and good leadership, Colorado will remain well ahead of the curve.
– Bill Owens
Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future.
– Camille Paglia
Armageddon is not around the corner. This is only what the people of violence want us to believe. The complexity and diversity of the world is the hope for the future.
– Michael Palin
Of course there is a huge in our material welfare, religious upbringing, and things like that. But things like your family, your house, your children's education, your hope for the future, are things that throughout the Muslim world they would share very easily with their counterparts in America.
– Michael Palin
We know that when people are safe in their homes, they are free to pursue their dream for a brighter economic future for themselves and their families.
– George E. Pataki
When you wonder about the mystery of yourself, look to Christ, who gives you the meaning of life. When you wonder what it means to be a mature person, look to Christ, who is the fulfillness of humanity. And when you wonder about your role in the future of the world look to Christ.
– Pope John Paul II
There is so much deceitfulness in the heart of man, so much hypocrisie in Funeral mourning, that you may bless God for your own assurance of the sincerity of your natural affection, and religious respect to your Parents, and take delight in a just expectation, that it will be rewarded by the future respect of your children.
– John Pearson
When the sappy boughs Attire themselves with blooms, sweet rudiments Of future harvest.
– John Philips
I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.
– Eden Phillpotts
The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
– Mary Pickford
The exploration and ultimate colonization of the solar system is the only future worthy of truly great nations at this time in history. The Soviets, who cannot even feed themselves, seem to understand this.
– John S. Powers
My sacred duty is to bring together the Russian people, unite the people around clear tasks. We have one Fatherland, one people and a common future.
– Vladimir Putin
The future is now.
– Nam June Paik
Beyond the horizon... a great, creative impulse is at work - the only thing that gives this continent meaning and a guarantee of the future. Every Australian ought to climb up here... and glimpse the various, manifold life of which he is a part.
– Vance Palmer
Education: A debt due from present to future generations.
– George Peabody
I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate.
– Arthur W. Pinero
I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.
– Dan Quayle
I've seen the future and it's much like the present only longer.
– Dan Quisenberry
Men and women were created to be jointly the guarantee of the future of the humanity - not only a physical guarantee, but also a moral one.
– Joseph Ratzinger
What makes him think a middle aged actor [Clint Eastwood], who's played with a chimp, could have a future in politics?
– Ronald Reagan
It's time that America's government lived by the same values as America's families. It's time we invested in America's future and made sure our people have the skills to compete and thrive in a 21st century economy. That's what Democrats believe.
– Harry Reid
The idea is in the mind itself, and can have no existence but in a mind that thinks; but the remote or mediate object may be something external, as the sun or moon; it may be something past or future; it may be something which never existed.
– Thomas Reid
Advertising is the art and sole of capitalism. It captures a moment of time through the lens of commerce, reflecting and affecting our lives, making us laugh and cry, while simultaneously giving traction to the engine that propels this free market economy forward into the future.
– Jef I. Richards
Congress seems to believe that 'Children are our future' is a phrase coined by tobacco advertisers.
– Jef I. Richards
Education enables people and societies to be what they can be. It is education that allows us to see that we are in this for the long haul, and it is education that will give us the tools we need to build a better future.
– Bill Richardson
Our future will not be determined by chance, but rather by the choices we make today, and in the days and weeks ahead.
– Bill Richardson
Drugs are the enemies of ambition and hope - and when we fight against drugs we are fighting for the future.
– Bob Riley
I ask you: turn a deaf ear to the special interests. Let politics stand down for a while. don't waste anytime thinking about future elections until we've done our jobs here.
– Bob Riley
Ladies and gentlemen: There can be no greater investment in Alabama's future than an investment in education.
– Bob Riley
No skill shapes a child's future success in school or in life more than the ability to read.
– Bob Riley
We must now view our problems as opportunities - historic opportunities to change the failed systems of the past and do what's right for our future.
– Bob Riley
In the darkest hour through which a human soul can pass, whatever else is doubtful, this at least is certain. If there be no God and no future state, yet even then, it is better to be generous than selfish, better to be chaste than licentious, better to be true than false, better to be brave than to be a coward.
– Frederick William Robertson
We have to bring stability to Iraq, otherwise we will be faced with a future dilemma of sending our loved ones into harms way to stop a civil war or the rise of a new tyrant born from the instability that we created.
– Jay Rockefeller
Winners live in the present tense. People who come up short are consumed with future or past. I want to be living in the now.
– Alex Rodriguez
Each of our universities must, within the very near future, embark upon substantial capital campaigns. All the major private universities in the United States have done so and so have most of the major public state institutions. The University of Nevada, Reno and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas are at least five years behind.
– James E. Rogers
Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
– Jim Rohn
Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.
– Jim Rohn
When all is said and done, and statesmen discuss the future of the world, the fact remains that people fight these wars.
– Eleanor Roosevelt
When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.
– Jean Rostand
The correct didactic analysis is one that does not in the least differ from the curative treatment. How, indeed, shall the future analyst learn the technique if he does not experience it just exactly as he is to apply it later?
– Otto Rank
The academia created 1 day greenwich time is bastardly queer and dooms future youth and nature to a hell.
– Gene Ray
These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.
– Mary Caroline Richards
When it comes to the future, there are three kinds of people: those who let it happen, those who make it happen, and those who wonder what happened.
– John M. Richardson, Jr.
Anxiety about the future never profits; we feel no evil until it comes, and when we feel it, no counsel helps; wisdom is either too early or too late.
– Arthur Somers Roche
All along the untrodden paths of the future, I can see the footprints of an unseen hand.
– Boyle Roche
Just what future the Designer of the universe has provided for the souls of men I do not know, I cannot prove. But I find that the whole order of Nature confirms my confidence that, if it is not like our noblest hopes and dreams, it will transcend them.
– Henry Norris Russell