He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.
~By Olympia Brown ~
Aesthetically, we were enormously successful. Economically... there was no success. It was all about music of the future and unfortunately it was a band that didn't have any future.
~By Wayne Kramer ~
We have the American people properly concerned about the future of our country and the world.
~By Hamilton Jordan ~
We are well aware from which countries and through which countries the terrorists are receiving support. In the immediate future I shall be calling upon the leaders of these states to put a stop to this kind of activity.
~By Boris Yeltsin ~
The wars of the future will be fought by computer technicians and by lawyers and high-altitude specialists, and that may mean war will be increasingly abstract, hard to think about and hard to control.
~By Michael Ignatieff ~
Now since France has three times in sixty years failed to obtain practical results from Political revolutions, all Europe is apt to press forward into new Social doctrine to regulate the future.
~By Lajos Kossuth ~
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.
~By David R. Brower ~
When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture.
~By Doug Coupland ~
The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future.
~By Joel A. Barker ~
In the future, torture will once again become the recreational sport of the rich.
~By Doug Coupland ~
My duty as a teacher is to train, educate future programmers.
~By Niklaus Wirth ~
Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.
~By Barbara Grizzuti Harrison ~
Few things are more important to each individual's future success or to our nation's prosperity than education.
~By Mark Kennedy ~
Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.
~By Jose Ortega y Gasset ~
People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I've got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. There's no future in it.
~By Sparky Anderson ~
Isn't it amazing the way the future succeeds in creating an appropriate past?
~By John Leonard ~
The mission for the day is to encourage students to think beyond traditional career opportunities, prepare for future careers and entrance into the workplace.
~By Allen Tate ~
Put simply, I want to treat my readers as partners and not crooks. There is no future in calling your most active promoters crooks.
~By Cory Doctorow ~
No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
~By Alan Watts ~
The future is wider than vision, and has no end.
~By Donald G. Mitchell ~
My own nature hovers between neurotic and paranoid. I've developed the habit of mentally listing things that make me optimistic about the future. I do it every day.
~By Martha Beck ~
The future is electronic. It's radio, television and the Internet; it's not really newspapers anymore.
~By Will McDonough ~
The cosmical importance of this conclusion is profound and the possibilities it opens for the future very remarkable, greater in fact than any suggested before by science in the whole history of the human race.
~By Francis William Aston ~
These are they whose youth was violently severed by war and death; a word on the telephone, a scribbled line on paper, and their future ceased. They have built up their lives again, but their safety is not absolute, their fortress not impregnable.
~By Winifred Holtby ~
We believe that an Iraqi founding national assembly, freely elected, must decide the future of Iraq.
~By Jalal Talabani ~
The current wisdom now is that if the three networks are covering the news the same way the difference is the anchor people. I think that won't be true in the future.
~By Roone Arledge ~
We can still find middle ground, truly secure our borders, deal with those already here and address our labor needs. But those who advocate giving current illegal aliens and future guest workers a special path to citizenship must compromise.
~By John Shadegg ~
Our work is before us. It cannot be passed to future legislatures and must not be passed to future generations. May we boldly seize the moment with singular unity. And may we build a Texas of unlimited possibility.
~By Rick Perry ~
I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future.
~By Tadao Ando ~
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.
~By Louise J. Kaplan ~
The future... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done.
~By Edward Young ~
You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.
~By Richard Bach ~
We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there.
~By Charles Kettering ~
I've said it before, but it's absolutely true: My mother gave me my drive, but my father gave me my dreams. Thanks to him, I could see a future.
~By Liza Minelli ~
Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.
~By Coco Chanel ~
With these kinds of proposals, the devil is in the details. We're going to examine this realignment closely. We will fight any measure that compromises our needs - now or in the future.
~By John B. Larson ~
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.
~By Bob Riley ~
Iowa is home to teachers, farmers, lawyers, factory workers, and many others who work hard every day to provide the best for their families and their future.
~By Leonard Boswell ~
Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.
~By Peter Drucker ~
In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first... The first object of any good system must be that of developing first class men.
~By Frederick W. Taylor ~
In the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.
~By Andy Warhol ~
The future of Conservatism lies in our beliefs and values, not by throwing them away. We need to shed associations that bind us to past failures, but hold faith with those things that make us Conservatives.
~By Iain Duncan Smith ~
The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it.
~By Dietrich Fischer Dieskau ~
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.
~By Joseph Beuys ~
Today, it is clear that Internet organizing is vital to our future success.
~By Martin Frost ~
Detroit is saying that the hydrogen vehicle is the vehicle of the future. But it's 15 years from now.
~By Ed Markey ~
No other investment yields as great a return as the investment in education. An educated workforce is the foundation of every community and the future of every economy.
~By Brad Henry ~
Social Security is a program that should be strengthened and preserved for future generations.
~By Diane Watson ~
Thus, only in a hopeful and confident temper, in a proud and constructive spirit, will we rescue the present and safeguard the future of our beloved country.
~By Bainbridge Colby ~
It's shortsighted not to view the education of a future generation of Americans as a priority for all Americans.
~By Mel Martinez ~
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.
~By Jennifer Granholm ~
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.
~By Jude Law ~
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.
~By Charles Darwin ~
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.
~By Mikhail Khodorkovsky ~
I never think too far into the future. I'm too busy thinking about tomorrow's news.
~By Matt Drudge ~
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.
~By John Naisbitt ~
I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate.
~By Arthur W. Pinero ~
The single most important thing we can do today to ensure a strong, successful future for Wisconsin is invest in our kids early - because what we do now will determine what kind of state Wisconsin will be 10, 20, even 50 years from now.
~By Jim Doyle ~
What kind of town do we want in the future, and how are we going to plan on that?
~By Peter Berg ~
In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.
~By Eric Hoffer ~
And it's also producing a growth in debt to the United States that will weight very heavily in a country that has to address issues like having more old people to be covered by Social Security or by pension in the future.
~By Rodrigo Rato ~
To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
~By Plutarch ~
Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.
~By Jim Rohn ~
Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision.
~By Marion Zimmer Bradley ~
Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
~By Victor Hugo ~
Elections are also about the future - the pledges that we are making for this country. For those who care about equality and fairness in the UK, and beyond, Labour really is the only choice.
~By Anne Campbell ~
Why does everyone think the future is space helmets, silver foil, and talking like computers, like a bad episode of Star Trek?
~By Tracey Ullman ~
For me, this world of questions and the provisional, this chase after an answer that was always put off to the next day, all that was euphoric. I lived in the future.
~By Francois Jacob ~
Whenever in future wars the battle is fought, armored troops will play the decisive role.
~By Heinz Guderian ~
God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.
~By Billy Graham ~
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.
~By Jay Rockefeller ~
Study the past, if you would divine the future.
~By Confucius ~
The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.
~By Marcel Pagnol ~
Even though the future seems far away, it is actually beginning right now.
~By Mattie Stepanek ~
I have a lack of fear, whereas in the past the fear of failure was a powerful motivator. Anyway, I have great expectations for the future, but I just don't know if I'm the monarch of all I survey.
~By Sylvester Stallone ~
I think you need people of principle, of character, that are leaders, that take stands on important tough issues that will affect the future of this country.
~By Sean Hannity ~
Nonetheless, Article 5 makes clear that if an Iraqi civilian who is not a member of the armed forces, has engaged in attacks on Coalition forces, the Geneva Convention permits the use of more coercive interrogation approaches to prevent future attacks.
~By John Yoo ~
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
~By Albert Einstein ~
As a child our dreams got scattered all about and all our future prospects got scattered to so many places, and we spend our lives trying to find the little pieces that make up our lives and make up the dreams that we had as a child that got blown away in the windstorm.
~By Terrence Howard ~
We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still.
~By Lewis Thomas ~
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.
~By Thomas Merton ~
Why do people so love to wander? I think the civilized parts of the World will suffice for me in the future.
~By Mary Cassatt ~
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
~By Buddha ~
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.
~By Carl Sandburg ~
Baseball's future? Bigger and bigger, better and better! No question about it, it's the greatest game there is!
~By Ted Williams ~
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.
~By Alan Dean Foster ~
After voluntary exertions on the part of our people to which the history of the world furnishes no parallel, is the old root of bitterness still to remain in the ground, to sprout and bear fruit in the future as it has borne fruit in the past?
~By Robert Dale Owen ~
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.
~By Benito Mussolini ~
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.
~By Geraldine Ferraro ~
Future generations are not going to ask us what political party were you in. They are going to ask what did you do about it, when you knew the glaciers were melting.
~By Martin Sheen ~
With respect to the environment in our state and our state's future - in addition to water which is very important here - I think it is crucial for him to make a sincere commitment to energy efficiency, fuel efficiency, by helping us to produce those cars of the future.
~By Jennifer Granholm ~
I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future.
~By Van Jones ~
There's been a big void out there, in terms of where I've been and what I am currently working on, I'd like to fill that void now and share my exciting plans for the future.
~By Priscilla Presley ~
In all my life and in the future, I will always be a faithful and loyal servant to all of my compatriots.
~By Norodom Sihamoni ~
The cost of adding a feature isn't just the time it takes to code it. The cost also includes the addition of an obstacle to future expansion. The trick is to pick the features that don't fight each other.
~By John Carmack ~
Hydrogen holds great promise to meet many of our future energy needs, and it addresses national security and our environmental concerns. Hydrogen is the simplest, most abundant element in the universe.
~By Dan Lipinski ~
You can be diagnosed and treated early. And there is hope for the future.
~By Teri Garr ~
I think it makes people in the Pentagon kind of nervous to know that chemical agents and environmental factors could cause so much damage in terms of what may happen in the future.
~By Bernard Sanders ~
Our lifestyle, our wildlife, our land and our water remain critical to our definition of Wyoming and to our economic future.
~By Dave Freudenthal ~
This war is being played in the realm of public opinion and has dire consequences for our soldiers in Iraq, the future of our country, and freedom around the world.
~By John Doolittle ~
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