Quotes on Future

The Arab World is writing a new future; the pen is in our own hands.

Author: Abdallah Abdallah II

I don't know what the future may hold, but I know who holds the future.

Author: Ralph Abernathy

My contract is just for this year, but I have an option for next year. It is not signed at this moment, but I am only concentrating on this year. I don't know exactly what I will do in the future.

Author: Jean Alesi

I think I will have a lot of opportunities in the future.

Author: Jean Alesi

When we get to the future, I'll determine the future.

Author: George Allen, Sr.

I can't think of any more important issue. If we get this right, we'll not only preserve our landscape for future generations we'll be able to generate I think more investment and more job opportunities in the inland and we sure as hell need those jobs.

Author: John Anderson

It looks like the future's really bright.

Author: Michael Anderson

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.

Author: Richard Anderson

I am neither a sociologist nor a politician. All I can do is imagine for myself what the future will be like.

Author: Michelangelo Antonioni

I could see us doing solo material in the future.

Author: Nicole Appleton

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.

Author: Hannah Arendt

And we... right from moment one, we were always kinda up against the wall a little bit when it came to the future of the show. There were always rumors.

Author: Will Arnett

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

Author: Marcus Aurelius

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.

Author: Marcus Aurelius

Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.

Author: Roger Babson

The future will be determined in part by happenings that it is impossible to foresee; it will also be influenced by trends that are now existent and observable.

Author: Emily Balch

The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.

Author: James Baldwin

A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.

Author: Bernard Baruch

We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the future.

Author: Gregory Bateson

There's a broad with a big future behind her.

Author: Constance Bennett

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.

Author: George Benson

What kind of town do we want in the future, and how are we going to plan on that?

Author: Peter Berg

The future ain't what it used to be.

Author: Yogi Berra

Reactionary: a man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Author: Aneurin Bevan

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.'

Author: Justin Bieber

To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense.

Author: Ambrose Bierce

The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.

Author: Jim Bishop

It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Author: Jim Bishop

We now need to look beyond our immediate future and aim higher and farther.

Author: Paul Biya

We are mortgaging our future.

Author: Joan Blades

What are they going to do to me that they haven't done already? They took away my entire past. They took away my entire future. What's left for them to take?

Author: Robert Blake

I write a lot too, so I would like to write or direct in the future if I can.

Author: Alexis Bledel

I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States.

Author: Harold Bloom

Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.

Author: Niels Bohr

I don't know what my future is.

Author: Barry Bonds

In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and plural at a lower cost. If you cannot accurately predict the future then you must flexibly be prepared to deal with various possible futures.

Author: Edward Bono

Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.

Author: Corrie Boom

If we are to better the future we must disturb the present.

Author: Catherine Booth

I don't know whether I'm, like, jumping the gun but it's possible that in the future we may be able to use the information that we can't receive at the moment.

Author: Sean Booth

When all else is lost, the future still remains.

Author: Christian Bovee

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

Author: Ray Bradbury

I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.

Author: Ray Bradbury

I would like to direct in the future, but I am in no hurry with that.

Author: Jonathan Brandis

I do look forward to doing things in the future that I haven't done before. Do you know what I have always dreamt about? Playing a serial killer!

Author: Jonathan Brandis

And sometimes I sit down to write, because that is what I like to do more and more in the future.

Author: Jonathan Brandis

I think that we have a responsibility to make certain that we are fiscally responsible in order to assure, frankly, future generations don't have to pay our bills.

Author: Carol Braun

I believe you can remember the future as much as the past.

Author: Meredith Brooks

The risk presented by these lethal wastes is like no other risk, and we should not be expected to accept it or to project it into the future in order for manufacturers and utilities to make a dollar killing now.

Author: David Brower

Pension reform can be hard to talk about. In the long run, reform now means fewer demands for layoffs and less draconian measures in the future. It's in the best interest of all Californians to fix this system now.

Author: Jerry Brown

The cloud that descended on Black Rock on Monday was not for the past but the future. How much will this debacle chill the pursuit of other risky investigations?

Author: Tina Brown

All of the good stuff is going to be done in the future. The stuff we are doing now is crummy compared with what will finally mature.

Author: Bill Budge

You can never plan the future by the past.

Author: Edmund Burke

I don't know that I'd necessarily want to see into the future. I don't want to know what's happening next.

Author: Yancy Butler

The best prophet of the future is the past.

Author: George Byron

Smiles form the channels of a future tear.

Author: Lord Byron

Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way.

Author: Eileen Caddy

I learn from thinking about the future, what hasn't been done yet. That's kind of my constant obsession.

Author: John Cale

I like what the future holds. I don't like thinking about the past.

Author: John Cale

I know Quebecers don't want to relive old battles; they prefer to build for the future.

Author: Kim Campbell

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Author: Albert Camus

There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.

Author: George Carlin

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.

Author: Charisma Carpenter

To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis, which is to say, a nothingness. Here and now is what we must contend with.

Author: Angela Carter

And the university's reputation will only continue to grow as stories like Elaine's are spread. Delaware State University's motto 'a past to honor, a future to insure,' couldn't be any more fitting for this transitional period you are going through.

Author: Michael Castle

To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.

Author: Carrie Catt

We know not of the future and cannot plan for it much.

Author: Joshua Chamberlain

They might in the future more than ever before engage in hunting beavers.

Author: Samuel Champlain

Our real interest starts with our neighbors... the future is about regional economies.

Author: Jean Charest

He has a future and I have a past, so we should be all right.

Author: Jennie Churchill

If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

Author: Winston Churchill

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

Author: Winston Churchill

In my opinion, the president is right to address future funding, even though Social Security will show a surplus through 2018 and will not run out of funds until 2042.

Author: Nick Clooney

I decided that the only way there would be a future was to start to cut back.

Author: Benjamin Cohen

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

Author: Samuel Coleridge

I've got two young kids. I don't know what the future holds.

Author: Robbie Coltrane

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

Author: Confucius

School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect so why bother.

Author: Tre Cool

Why have we had to invent Eden, to live submerged in the nostalgia of a lost paradise, to make up utopias, propose a future for ourselves?

Author: Julio Cortazar

It also allows you to look as though you're not particularly from the present, future or past, either.

Author: Doug Coupland

In the future as in the past, both Clausewitz and Sun Tzu will undoubtedly have a lot to offer.

Author: Martin Creveld

The future will be the child of the past and the present, even if a rebellious child.

Author: George Crumb

You go out there and ask them what their future is today. If we don't build that today, there's nothing.

Author: Richard Daley

Run to meet the future or it's going to run you down.

Author: Anthony D'Angelo

I'm just saying that at least for the foreseeable future there won't be any more touring.

Author: Glenn Danzig

I was planning on my future as a homeless person. I had a really good spot picked out.

Author: Larry David

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

Author: Thomas Dewey

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

Author: Cory Doctorow

The public made me and then encouraged me for many years, and my future even now depends upon it.

Author: Placido Domingo

We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.

Author: Frederick Douglass

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

Author: Peter Drucker

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Author: Peter Drucker

I never think too far into the future. I'm too busy thinking about tomorrow's news.

Author: Matt Drudge

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Author: Wayne Dyer

Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.

Author: Bob Dylan

We need to open up the future. We also need to keep everything valuable from the past.

Author: John Eaton

I've never been able to predict the future of anything.

Author: Bob Edwards

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!

Author: Zac Efron

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Author: Albert Einstein

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

Author: Albert Einstein

I can't say I can foresee the future and tell the stars, you know. But I do have an understanding for my own reality, just elements and things that I've learned from.

Author: Jenna Elfman

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.

Author: Albert Ellis

The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future.

Author: Philip Emeagwali

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

Author: Ralph Emerson

Create your future from your future not your past.

Author: Werner Erhard

The girl with a future avoids a man with a past.

Author: Evan Esar

Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.

Author: Euripides

I want a new contract. I'm happy at United and I see my future here.

Author: Rio Ferdinand

Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future.

Author: Marilyn Ferguson

The future of publishing lies with the small and medium-sized presses, because the big publishers in New York are all part of huge conglomerates.

Author: Lawrence Ferlinghetti

For one thing, one of the wonderful things that we now have is instead of the huge budget surpluses that President Clinton left us with, we now have these huge deficits that we're going to be facing into the future.

Author: Geraldine Ferraro

The future is the worst thing about the present.

Author: Gustave Flaubert

You have to be able to risk your identity for a bigger future than the present you are living.

Author: Fernando Flores

The cynical part of the answer is that I expect to see a good deal more space opera, set far enough in the future as to be disconnected from contemporary issues.

Author: John Ford

There's certainly more new SF available than when I started writing. That means there's also more bad SF available. Whether there is also more good is a matter for future historians of the field.

Author: Alan Foster

Our lifestyle, our wildlife, our land and our water remain critical to our definition of Wyoming and to our economic future.

Author: Dave Freudenthal

I go to school the youth to learn the future.

Author: Robert Frost

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.

Author: Stephen Fry

We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.

Author: R. Fuller

Yeah, that's what I'm working for. The couture house of the future.

Author: John Galliano

If you do not think about your future, you cannot have one.

Author: John Galsworthy

How in heaven's name can a nation with a $1 trillion surplus threaten so much scientific research so vital to its future?

Author: David Gergen

Even in my darkest times I knew I had a good future ahead of me.

Author: Balthazar Getty

The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet.

Author: William Gibson

The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet.

Author: William Gibson

My theme is going to be: Together we can win the future. The right policies lead to the right results. And I'm going to argue that President Obama will lose the future because the wrong policies lead to the wrong results.

Author: Newt Gingrich

In choosing Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate, John McCain has chosen for the future.

Author: Rudy Giuliani

Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present, and what to plan for in the future.

Author: Arnold Glasgow

The trouble with the future is that is usually arrives before we're ready for it.

Author: Arnold Glasgow

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

Author: Al Gore

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.

Author: Richard Gough

Their future is ahead of them.

Author: Curt Gowdy

With terrorist groups like al Qaeda, you can't learn what you want to learn about their capabilities and their future plans by taking a picture of it, and they've learned not to use the telephone.

Author: Bob Graham

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.

Author: Jennifer Granholm

That's one of the most exciting things about Michigan's future. We need to, we must capitalize on our alternative-energy vehicles that we can produce right here.

Author: Jennifer Granholm

Perhaps at a later point important developments will be traced back to September 11. But for now we do not know which of the many scenarios will actually hold in the future.

Author: Jurgen Habermas

What's crucial is that the IRA produce a credible statement that paramilitary and criminality activity is a thing of the past. That they are committed to a future which is exclusively peaceful and democratic.

Author: Peter Hain

The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given by heredity.

Author: G. Hall

I'm always interested in looking forward toward the future. Carving out new ways of looking at things.

Author: Herbie Hancock

A coldly rationalist individualist can deny that he has any obligation to make sacrifices for the future.

Author: Garrett Hardin

My district includes the two urban centers of Charlotte and Fayetteville, as well as large rural areas. Obviously, these diverse segments of North Carolina require different approaches to meeting current and future transportation demands.

Author: Robin Hayes

Every man is his own ancestor, and every man is his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past.

Author: Frederick Hedge

In charting our course to the future, we are mindful of our path from the past.

Author: Brad Henry

I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.

Author: Patrick Henry

I know no way of judging the future but by the past.

Author: Patrick Henry

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.

Author: Alexis Herman

If nations always moved from one set of furnished rooms to another - and always into a better set - things might be easier, but the trouble is that there is no one to prepare the new rooms. The future is worse than the ocean - there is nothing there.

Author: Alexander Herzen

For every minute, the future is becoming the past.

Author: Thor Heyerdahl

Denver is a city that will be far more defined by its future than its past.

Author: John Hickenlooper

In the future the way that Whittaker Chambers was able to carry out forgery by typewriter will be disclosed.

Author: Alger Hiss

He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.

Author: Adolf Hitler