For my part, I do not feel that the scheme of future happiness, which ought by rights to be in preparation for me, will be at all interfered with by my not meeting again the man I have in my. mind.
~By James Payn ~
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.
~By Jean Rostand ~
If stability and efficiency required that there existed markets that extended infinitely far into the future - and these markets clearly did not exist - what assurance do we have of the stability and efficiency of the capitalist system?
~By Joseph E. Stiglitz ~
Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.
~By Hannah Arendt ~
It's like real life: We don't get a preview of what's coming up, thank God, and we don't build our own character from what we're going to be informed with in the future.
~By Frances Conroy ~
Furthermore I will just have to see what the future will bring me. But a change of food whets the appetite.
~By Jonathan Brandis ~
The U.S. is looking to India as more then just a marketplace for our defense products, but as a technology, aerospace and strategic partner for our future endeavors.
~By Kit Bond ~
Therefore, I think that in the celebration of the 50 years of the present reign, there must be research on the changes that the country has undergone, and in the future, it could be used as a lesson for our future actions.
~By Bhumibol Adulyadej ~
Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.
~By Nikola Tesla ~
Isn't it amazing the way the future succeeds in creating an appropriate past?
~By John Leonard ~
Yeah, that's what I'm working for. The couture house of the future.
~By John Galliano ~
I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate.
~By Arthur W. Pinero ~
The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future.
~By Philip Emeagwali ~
I could see us doing solo material in the future.
~By Nicole Appleton ~
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
~By C. S. Lewis ~
American future lies in the East. The great free markets of the Pacific Rim are the American destiny.
~By Donald Freed ~
Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.
~By George Burns ~
A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism.
~By Irving Babbitt ~
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
~By Charles de Montesquieu ~
We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.
~By Adlai E. Stevenson ~
The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of modeling technology.
~By John Spencer ~
While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.
~By Ronald Reagan ~
A part of sexuality may go to research, and a much larger part must lead to aesthetic creation. The art of the future will, because of the very opportunities and materials it will have at its command, need an infinitely stronger formative impulse than it does now.
~By John Desmond Bernal ~
Hollow commitments to action in the future are insufficient. Deferring difficult issues must not be tolerated. Our children and grandchildren expect us to speak and act decisively.
~By Jenny Shipley ~
Education is dangerous - every educated person is a future enemy.
~By Hermann Goering ~
Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion.
~By Al Goldstein ~
It is our character that supports the promise of our future - far more than particular government programs or policies.
~By William Bennett ~
This is actually a very important principle that science is learning about large systems like evolution and that futurists are learning about anticipating human society: just because a future scenario is plausible doesn't mean we can get there from here.
~By Kevin Kelly ~
We are not out to boast that there is so much percentage of growth per year. Our real concern is how it affects the lives of people, the future of our country.
~By Daw Aung San Suu Kyi ~
No one is more important to the future of our state than our teachers.
~By Mike Huckabee ~
Your future takes precedence over your past. Focus on your future, rather than on the past.
~By Gary Ryan Blair ~
Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future.
~By Marilyn Ferguson ~
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 ~
Well, the future of the Internet is... Reality.
~By Daniel Keys Moran ~
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.
~By Charisma Carpenter ~
When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.
~By Bernard Meltzer ~
You will see, in the future I will live by my watercolors.
~By Winslow Homer ~
The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.
~By Christopher Morley ~
We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
~By Frederick Douglass ~
I think daily that the country's future is being thrown to the wind.
~By Edwidge Danticat ~
The youth is the hope of our future.
~By Jose Rizal ~
If Congress does its job in this regard, the residents of Puerto Rico will be empowered to act in their own self-interest and express their future political status aspirations accordingly.
~By Dick Thornburgh ~
Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.
~By Antoine Rivarol ~
An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.
~By Samuel Alexander ~
Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.
~By Malcolm X ~
Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly; and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men.
~By Sophocles ~
The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.
~By Alvin Toffler ~
I like what the future holds. I don't like thinking about the past.
~By John Cale ~
Our real interest starts with our neighbors... the future is about regional economies.
~By Jean Charest ~
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 ~
The future has a way of arriving unannounced.
~By George Will ~
You have to be professional and think about the future.
~By Jamie Redknapp ~
If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
~By Winston Churchill ~
Without wisdom, the future has no meaning, no valuable purpose.
~By Herbie Hancock ~
I know I'm going to blow one day. My life is doomed the way it is. I have no future.
~By Mike Tyson ~
Though I was excited about the Sojourner Truth play, it was not reassuring to think that my entire future might depend on the success of that one show.
~By Ethel Waters ~
I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.
~By Bob Dylan ~
Here once again education is crucial, it enables children to be become more aware of their rights and to exercise them in a respectful manner which helps them shape their own future.
~By Carol Bellamy ~
This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.
~By Arthur C. Clarke ~
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.
~By Abraham Lincoln ~
The future is hidden by a dark impenetrable veil, and yet we struggle to pierce through it.
~By Joseph Barber Lightfoot ~
My view is that targets, properly constructed and applied across public services have been fundamental to past successes and will be an essential part of sustaining progress into the future.
~By John Hutton ~
There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.
~By Jean Rostand ~
You can't plan for the future, because some guy's going to land in a spaceship with three heads and a big beak and take over everything.
~By Paul Kantner ~
If we care about the children, the grandchildren, the future generations, we need to make sure that they do not become the cannon fodder of the future.
~By Helen Thomas ~
You know when you're young you think you will always be. As you become more fragile, you reflect and you realize how much comfort can come from the past. Hymns can carry you into the future.
~By Andy Griffith ~
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
~By Alan Watts ~
There are a lot of new opportunities that are poking their head up in my future. I've been very fortunate that way, but for right now, what I like is what I'm doing.
~By Gavin MacLeod ~
I am hopeful about any future for whites in this country, but not entirely optimistic.
~By Helen Suzman ~
Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.
~By Henry R. Luce ~
The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet.
~By William Gibson ~
The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin.
~By David Antin ~
There is a different future that is available to North Korea, if they choose differently.
~By Mitchell Reiss ~
If a belief is not realized immediately in open deeds, it is stored up for the guidance of the future.
~By William Kingdon Clifford ~
The future infrared space telescope will cover that area in a much more efficient manner.
~By Claude Nicollier ~
I suspect there isn't an actor alive who was able to truthfully answer his family's questions after his first day's activity in his future profession.
~By Simone Signoret ~
The failure of national economic policy is costing us more than jobs; it has begun to weaken that uniquely American spirit of risk-taking, large ambition, and optimism about the future. We must rally them now to bold departures that rebuild our national morale as well as our material prosperity.
~By Mitch Daniels ~
There is no doubt that environmentally related diseases will continue to pose problems in the future.
~By Samuel Wilson ~
By encouraging conservation, increasing investments in clean, renewable sources of energy, and promoting increased domestic production of oil and gas, we can build a more secure future for our country.
~By Ron Lewis ~
The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.
~By Edgar Quinet ~
Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.
~By Adolf Hitler ~
Personally, I do not believe that we shall have greater armaments in the future than we have had in the past. On the contrary, I believe there will be a gradual diminution in this respect.
~By William Watson ~
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 ~
Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better in the future.
~By William Wordsworth ~
You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.
~By Arnold Schwarzenegger ~
Cartooning is a wonderful career, and I'd like more women to get to have it. I can't think of any reason why we won't see more syndicated female cartoonists in the future.
~By Cathy Guisewite ~
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!
~By Zac Efron ~
Few things are more important to each individual's future success or to our nation's prosperity than education.
~By Mark Kennedy ~
I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.
~By George Burns ~
Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present - and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.
~By Audrey Hepburn ~
Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being.
~By Miriam Makeba ~
We need to think of the future and the planet we are going to leave to our children and their children.
~By Kofi Annan ~
Modern as the style of Pascal's writing is, his thought is deeply impregnated with the spirit of the Middle Ages. He belonged, almost equally, to the future and to the past.
~By Lytton Strachey ~
The working class is my home country, and my future is linked with the proletariat.
~By Andrei Platonov ~
Many men hoard for the future husbands of their wives.
~By Solomon Ibn Gabirol ~
I've come to believe that whoever I am didn't start on December 14, 1946, and isn't going to end on whatever that mysterious date is in the future.
~By Patty Duke ~
I have reached a place in my life where I need to sit down and say, 'Well, what do I do? What's best for me?' I need to look into options for the future.
~By Michael Phelps ~
Surrender your forces and give yourselves and your troops the opportunity to be a part of Iraq's future and not a part of Iraq's past.
~By Peter Pace ~
This is a simple change that will provide a huge financial boost for many Americans, particularly low- to moderate-income families. It is an important step in making sure we do everything we can to encourage all Americans to save and plan for the future.
~By Jim Cooper ~
We must vote for hope, vote for life, vote for a brighter future for all of our loved ones.
~By Ed Markey ~
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