Future Quotes

Instead of just giving lip service to improving our schools, I will actually put the kids first and the teachers union behind in giving our kids better teachers, better options and better choices for a better future.
– Mitt Romney
Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future.
– Robert Smithson
Inspiring scenes of people taking the future of their countries into their own hands will ignite greater demands for good governance and political reform elsewhere in the world, including in Asia and in Africa.
– William Hague
Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.
– Bradley Whitford
Including myself, the majority of the Korean people believe in this staunch alliance between Korea and the United States and all of us hope that our traditional alliance will be further strengthened in the future.
– Lee Myung-bak
In this bright future you can't forget your past.
– Bob Marley
In the light of our culture, these are not unreasonable questions and tactics, but if once again, we try to see the lens through which we look, we can see that there is far too great an emphasis placed on the future.
– Alan Dundes
In the future, when Microsoft leaves a security-flaw in their code it won't mean that somebody hacks your computer. It will mean that somebody takes control of your servant robot and it stands in your bedroom doorway sharpening a knife and watching you sleep.
– Daniel H. Wilson
In the future, my communications with the public and with the markets will be entirely through regular and formal channels.
– Ben Bernanke
In the future, torture will once again become the recreational sport of the rich.
– Doug Coupland
In rising financial markets, the world is forever new. The bull or optimist has no eyes for past or present, but only for the future, where streams of revenue play in his imagination.
– James Buchan
In retrospect, the Millennium marked only a moment in time. It was the events of September 11 that marked a turning point in history, where we confront the dangers of the future and assess the choices facing humankind.
– Tony Blair
In particular, for younger researchers on whom the future of mankind may depend. We believe that they are working with all the scientific wisdom at their disposal for the preservation of the inheritance of the earth and for the lasting survival of mankind.
– Kenichi Fukui
In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
– Stendhal
In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to remember seven generations in the past and consider seven generations in the future when making decisions that affect the people.
– Wilma Mankiller
In fact, I believe the first companies that make an effort to develop an authentic, transparent, and meaningful social contract with their fans and customers will turn out to be the ones that are the most successful in the future. While brands that refuse to make the effort will lose stature and customer loyalty.
– Simon Mainwaring
In fact when you combine stem cell technology with the technology known as tissue engineering you can actually grow up entire organs, so as you suggest that sometime in the future you get in an auto accident and lose your kidney, we'd simply take a few skin cells and grow you up a new kidney. In fact this has already been done.
– Robert Lanza
In every man the memory of the struggles and the heroes of the past is alive. But these memories are not incompatible with the desire for peace in the future.
– Gustav Stresemann
In 1998, Artnet was the site that convinced me that if my writing didn't exist online, it didn't exist at all. It showed me criticism's future.
– Jerry Saltz
If younger people see older people who haven't planned ahead and have to rely on charity, the young will be more likely to provide for the future. Today when someone plans poorly, the only consequence people see is a demand for more government.
– Harry Browne
If you want to have sustained joy, you have to not only make sure that you think right, but you also have to make decisions now that are going to guarantee some joy in the future.
– Joyce Meyer
If you want a future of shared prosperity, where the middle class is growing and poverty is declining, where the American Dream is alive and well, and where the United States remains the leading force for peace and prosperity in a highly competitive world, you should vote for Barack Obama.
– William J. Clinton
If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future.
– Danielle Steel
If you really want something you just hang with it. We think our future's ahead and not behind.
– Jerry Only
If you really want change, you really want it to be inclusive, where everyone's included, otherwise you're just going to have more of the same in the future.
– will.i.am
If you can see the magic in a fairytale, you can face the future.
– Danielle Steel
If you believe that the killing of innocent people is right, then you are not part of my future.
– King Abdullah II
If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract teach him to deduct.
– Fran Lebowitz
If we wish our state's growth to continue, then our future will increasingly be with industries that require a highly skilled and technically proficient workforce.
– Jay Weatherill
If we want to deliver opportunity for all, we need an economy that delivers jobs for the future.
– John Major
If we can't begin to agree on fundamentals, such as the elimination of the most abusive forms of child labor, then we really are not ready to march forward into the future.
– Alexis Herman
If we are to garner sustained U.S. domestic support for future trade agreements, we have to make sure those Americans who have suffered as a consequence of past agreements have an effective social safety net, adjustment assistance, opportunities for retraining and new job creation that enables all Americans to thrive.
– Susan Rice
If we are to better the future we must disturb the present.
– Catherine Booth
If this is not done, future ages will certainly look back upon us as a people so immersed in the pursuit of wealth as to be blind to higher considerations.
– Alfred Russel Wallace
If the right people do the right things, we can walk, we can have a future. But if people don't put time into it to make it run in a right way, I don't think your team will work.
– Tim Hardaway
If the euro zone doesn't come up with a comprehensive vision of its own future, you'll have a whole range of nationalist, xenophobic and extreme movements increasing across the European Union. And, frankly, questions about the British debate on EU membership will just be a small sideshow compared to the rise of political populism.
– Nick Clegg
If other people want to talk about my future I can't control that.
– Steven Gerrard
If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn't be here. I guarantee you that.
– Michelle Obama
If I can create some space that people haven't experienced before and if it stays with them or gives them a dream for the future, that's the kind of structure I seek to create.
– Tadao Ando
If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.
– Lyndon B. Johnson
I've noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it's far enough in the future.
– Brian Eno
I've been watching more American TV because of all the great TV series that have come out in the last five to 10 years. I'm a 'Sopranos' fan, I'm a 'Wire' fan, I'm a 'Mad Men' fan. I'm a 'Deadwood' fan. It makes me optimistic for the future of storytelling on TV that producers are willing to take that kind of jump.
– Jo Nesbo
I've been doing musical theater since I was a kid. And look for a CD from me in the future. I want to write all the songs!
– Zac Efron
I've been asked to do a retrospective since I was about 28 and I always thought that was a bit odd. It's great to look forward as an artist because in the future the possibilities are infinite you look back and it's all fixed so it's a scary thing.
– Damien Hirst
I'm working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future.
– Lady Gaga
I'm sure that there are reasonable people that had some reasonable projections about the future of New Orleans, but none of those could include not trying to rebuild the city and make it better than it was before.
– Harry Connick, Jr.
I'm substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House and Congress are at odds over what the future direction should be. They're sort of playing a game and NASA is the shuttlecock that they're hitting back and forth.
– Neil Armstrong
I'm still driving along on the pop freeway of life. Thinking even further into the future, I definitely want to make an acoustic record. I want to try lots of different things.
– Katy Perry
I'm scared of the unknown future.
– Bethenny Frankel
I'm pro-life. I'll do all I can to see every baby is created with a future and potential. The legislature should do all it can to protect human life.
– Sarah Palin
I'm on a search for my future ex-wife.
– Richie Sambora
I'm not sitting dwelling about the past or stressing or fretting about something in the future.
– Jennifer Aniston
I'm not making any bets on the future.
– Michelle Williams
I'm not itching to sue Amazon or Wal-Mart... they sell a lot of books. But the future is very uncertain with books.
– John Grisham
I'm not a prophet I can only use historical reality to come to a view of the future, and my view is that Africa will return to being African and not European. The advent of colonialism was foreign to the country itself, but it will return to what it was before the Europeans arrived.
– Wilbur Smith
I'm just saying that at least for the foreseeable future there won't be any more touring.
– Glenn Danzig
I'm happy, I'm in a good place, I'm looking forward to my future.
– Katy Perry
I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.
– Peter Ustinov
I'm convinced that we can shape a different future for this country as it relates to mental health and as it relates to suicide.
– David Satcher
I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life.
– Miles Davis
I'm already the most fortunate girl in the world, so I have zero expectations for what the future will bring.
– Shailene Woodley
I'm a person that carries everything that happened to me in my past, with me into the future. I refuse to let it make me bitter. I still completely believe in love and I remain open to anything that will happen to me.
– Nicole Kidman
I'm a big laser believer - I really think they are the wave of the future.
– Courteney Cox
I'd love to do more action stuff, in the future.
– Ashley Tisdale
I'd like to think that the actions we take today will allow others in the future to discover the wonders of landscapes we helped protect but never had the chance to enjoy ourselves.
– Annie Leibovitz
I'd like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future.
– Garth Brooks
I'd like now and into the future to play a bigger role not only in Wisconsin and the Midwest, but nationally. I'd like to have an impact.
– Scott Walker
I would tell 17-year-olds to be proud of who you are. Don't try to change yourself for others. Focus on school and your future. Boys and friends will come and go, just focus on you and your future.
– Lea Michele
I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States.
– Harold Bloom
I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming.
– Brian Eno
I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
– E. B. White
I wished to go completely outside and to make a symbolic start for my enterprise of regenerating the life of humankind within the body of society and to prepare a positive future in this context.
– Joseph Beuys
I welcome and seek your ideas, but do not bring me small ideas bring me big ideas to match our future.
– Arnold Schwarzenegger
I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did.
– Elia Kazan
I was planning on my future as a homeless person. I had a really good spot picked out.
– Larry David
I was offered a choice of a flat salary up front or a percentage of the film's future earnings. I took the up front money. Nobody could have figured what Halloween would ultimately become.
– Donald Pleasence
I was cast in 'Thor' and I'm cast as a Nordic god. If you know anything about the Nords, they don't look like me but there you go. I think that's a sign of the times for the future. I think we will see multi-level casting. I think we will see that, and I think that's good.
– Idris Elba
I was a peripheral visionary. I could see the future, but only way off to the side.
– Steven Wright
I want to do very useful buildings and I would like to find a method of producing these buildings through our technology because I think that this is the only way that we will gain wonderful environment easily in the future.
– Minoru Yamasaki
I try not to worry about the future - so I take each day just one anxiety attack at a time.
– Tom Wilson
I think within Japan there is talk about how there is the need to reassess the future of the U.S.-Japan alliance.
– Lee Myung-bak
I think there's a future where the Web and print coexist and they each do things uniquely and complement each other, and we have what could be the ultimate and best-yet array of journalistic venues.
– Dave Eggers
I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession.
– John Wooden
I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely seriously disturb himself or herself and how to overcome disturbance when it occurs.
– Albert Ellis
I think the future also will not belong to those who are cynical or those who stand on the sidelines.
– Paul Wellstone
I think that the present is worth attention, one shouldn't sacrifice it to future conceptions of, of this future or that future.
– Tom Stoppard
I think that the first thing is you should have a strategic asset allocation mix that assumes that you don't know what the future is going to hold.
– Ray Dalio
I think that in the future, clocks won't say three o'clock anymore. They'll just get right to the point and rename three o'clock 'Pepsi.'
– Doug Coupland
I think of the past and the future as well as the present to determine where I am, and I move on while thinking of these things.
– Tadao Ando
I think my view is that whenever you project into the future you're never likely to be accurate in the details, or the paraphernalia and style. It's in the spirit of it.
– Stephen Fry
I think life is far too short to concentrate on your past. I rather look into the future.
– Lou Reed
I think it's very clear that the American people are frustrated with this move toward socialism. And so whether you're back or white, if you believe that the conservative construct is in the best interest of our future, than you too would be voting with Republicans, and if you had the opportunity to run you'd join us as well.
– Tim Scott
I think in the future we need to look at our youth department to provide more players for the first team think it is important for a club to have a good amount of players that have roots with the club and region.
– Arsene Wenger
I think I'm going to be making country records for as long as I can see into the future. It's much more down-home and real.
– Neil Young
I think Gingrich has embarrassed the party over time. Whether he'll do it again in the future, I don't know. But Gov. Romney never has.
– Chris Christie
I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.
– Carl Sandburg
I suppose I'm intrigued with the bad traits of society, because I'm a part of society, and the bad traits pose the dangerous questions for our future.
– Jude Law
I stopped predicting the future a long time ago.
– Fred Durst
I stopped thinking about it after trying to figure out what are the lessons learned, and there are so many. After I had basically sorted that out, I figured it's time to really look at the future and not at the past.
– Kalpana Chawla
I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?
– George Byron