Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
~By Lester Bangs ~
Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature.
~By Walter Savage Landor ~
The future and eternity are two entirely different things.
~By Doug Coupland ~
Every thought we think is creating our future.
~By Louise L. Hay ~
Darlin... be-bop is the music of the future.
~By Dexter Gordon ~
As founder and co-chair of the upper Mississippi River Congressional task force, I have long sought to preserve the river's health and historical multiple uses, including as a natural waterway and a home to wildlife, for the benefit of future generations of Americans.
~By Ron Kind ~
In should be the duty of every soldier to reflect on the experiences of the past, in the endeavor to discover improvements, in his particular sphere of action, which are practicable in the immediate future.
~By B. H. Liddell Hart ~
Thirteen thousand dollars a year is not enough to raise a family. That's not enough to pay your bills and save for their future. That's barely enough to provide for even the most basic needs.
~By Thomas Carper ~
When the sappy boughs Attire themselves with blooms, sweet rudiments Of future harvest.
~By John Philips ~
Denver is a city that will be far more defined by its future than its past.
~By John Hickenlooper ~
It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
~By Edgar Allan Poe ~
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
~By H. G. Wells ~
I think the future stopped looking American when you think back to Blade Runner and Neuromancer, when it started to look more Japanese.
~By Iain Banks ~
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 ~
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 ~
A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.
~By Denis Waitley ~
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 ~
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
~By Roger Babson ~
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 ~
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.
~By Gustav Stresemann ~
I believe that children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they possess inside.
~By Whitney Houston ~
All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.
~By George Orwell ~
Call us the future from your past.
~By Fred Schneider ~
Our purpose in this project is to begin to turn that fear of cancer, actually America's greatest fear, into a future, not only free of fear, but full of hope.
~By Andrew von Eschenbach ~
I never have planned a whole lot of future. It's one day at a time.
~By Darrell Royal ~
I mean that at least 80% of the Russian people feel destitute. It's the people who had their past and future taken from them - they don't get paid - many of them face a wall. They have nowhere to go.
~By Aleksandr Lebed ~
It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
~By Gertrude Stein ~
Let us seize the special opportunity that is ours to act boldly and decisively at a time when the eyes of our fellow citizens, both present and future, are upon us.
~By Bob Taft ~
Look at the United States today. We have made mistakes in the past. We have had shortcomings. We shall make mistakes in the future and fall short of our own best hopes.
~By Henry Cabot Lodge ~
If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe.
~By Simone Weil ~
The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.
~By John Maynard Keynes ~
But the truth of the matter is that there is there is an opportunity for them to participate in the economic and political future of the country and certainly in the security life of the country.
~By John Abizaid ~
We can choose between the future and the past, between reason and ignorance, between true compassion and mere ideology.
~By Ron Reagan ~
It's just really hard to work and get better, building and planning for the future with the new Monte Carlo and keeping the race team intact and keeping them healthy.
~By Dale Earnhardt ~
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 ~
The problem that faces our country today, the last 30 years we have lived off the future, and the bill is coming due. So there cannot be anything that is not put on the table. There will not be one American that will not be called to sacrifice. Those that are more well-to-do will be called to sacrifice to a greater extent.
~By Tom Coburn ~
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 ~
One of my few shortcomings is that I can't predict the future.
~By Lars Ulrich ~
I'm sure that was the right step, even though, formally speaking, it may seem disadvantageous for a president to resign. But, looking into what is happening today and what is going to happen in the future, I think history will show I made the right decision.
~By Eduard Shevardnadze ~
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.
~By Eden Phillpotts ~
Distant replay morphs into instant replay, and future replay cannot be far off.
~By John Thorn ~
The golden age has not passed; it lies in the future.
~By Paul Signac ~
Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.
~By Bob Dylan ~
Americans simply ask for, not just Democrats in the House but also the Senate has asked the President for a clear plan as it relates to dealing with the issue of Iraq and our troops and making sure that we can bring families together in the very near future.
~By Kendrick Meek ~
The most important thing about global warming is this. Whether humans are responsible for the bulk of climate change is going to be left to the scientists, but it's all of our responsibility to leave this planet in better shape for the future generations than we found it.
~By Mike Huckabee ~
It's nice to establish yourself as an actor first and a singer second. Proof is such a tremendous piece of work, and I'm incredibly lucky to be a part of it. I'm sure that the musicals will happen in the future, though.
~By Neil Patrick Harris ~
I know I'm going to blow one day. My life is doomed the way it is. I have no future.
~By Mike Tyson ~
You will attract the younger generation and they might well prove tougher than the older generation. What we are trying to do is to look at the future and see what we can do to bring some stability back to people's lives.
~By Ian Botham ~
While knowledge may provide useful point of reference, it cannot become a force to guide the future.
~By Herbie Hancock ~
I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future.
~By Oliver Stone ~
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.
~By Alfred Russel Wallace ~
Through first-class education, a generation marches down the long uncertain road of the future with confidence.
~By Wynton Marsalis ~
Thanking you once more, I want to wish you the best of luck for your future life and to conclude by saying to you: Dream your dreams and may they come true!
~By Felix Bloch ~
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.
~By Angela Carter ~
For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.
~By Hubert H. Humphrey ~
To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.
~By Robert M. Pirsig ~
I would like to direct in the future, but I am in no hurry with that.
~By Jonathan Brandis ~
In the future, when we get serious about executing things correctly, this thing will be very easy to do. If we find out that this technique does not work, I don't intend to step on dead bodies to achieve something because I don't have that kind of ambition. My ambition is to help people.
~By Panayiotis Zavos ~
The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some skill to do useful service, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community - these are the most vital things education must try to produce.
~By Virginia Gildersleeve ~
I don't know what my future is.
~By Barry Bonds ~
My mission is a cosmic mission. My concern is for all of humanity, and not only this present world, but the world hereafter. My mission penetrates the past, present, and future, and encompasses all humanity.
~By Sun Myung Moon ~
This enemy of peace in the world today is unlike any we have seen in the past, and our military is learning from, and building on, previous successes while carrying peace and freedom into the future.
~By Mark Kennedy ~
Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.
~By James Dobson ~
We do have some assistance from the World Bank but not from the IMF. We are not borrowing yet, but we are considering, in the future, borrowing from the Kuwait Fund to support our infrastructure development.
~By Jose Ramos Horta ~
The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.
~By James Thurber ~
The future is electronic. It's radio, television and the Internet; it's not really newspapers anymore.
~By Will McDonough ~
American future lies in the East. The great free markets of the Pacific Rim are the American destiny.
~By Donald Freed ~
The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious.
~By John Sculley ~
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 ~
Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.
~By Ann Landers ~
In securing the future of the planet, we secure happiness for ourselves. One of the aims of the Greens is to turn around the tide of pessimism amongst the young people of the world.
~By Bob Brown ~
The immediate future is going to be tragic for all of us unless we find a way of making the vast educational resources of this country serve the true purpose of education, truth and justice.
~By Anne Sullivan Macy ~
Just two weeks ago, millions of Iraqis defied the threats of terrorists and went to the polls to determine their own future. I congratulate the Iraqi people for the courage they've shown in making these elections so successful.
~By Bill Frist ~
Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.
~By Garson Kanin ~
But the primary reason for wanting the dollar to become more competitive in the near future is that we may need an increase in exports this year and in 2007 to sustain the economy's current pace of expansion.
~By Martin Feldstein ~
A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
~By Honore de Balzac ~
But, sir, they have written me down upon the history of the country as worthy of expulsion, and in no unkindness I must tell them that for all future time my self-respect requires that I shall pass them as strangers.
~By Preston Brooks ~
A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.
~By Leonard Bernstein ~
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
~By Peter Drucker ~
That got me to L.A. and reintroduced me to my future husband.
~By Marg Helgenberger ~
Send me one hundred francs on our future deals, otherwise I will disappear in a cataclysm.
~By Camille Claudel ~
While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both good and evil, since the world is made to that mingled pattern.
~By Dorothy L. Sayers ~
To that movement, consecrated by religious principle, sustained by an awful sense of justice, and cheered by the brightest hopes of future good, all our powers, talents, and attainments are devoted.
~By George Ripley ~
I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate.
~By Arthur W. Pinero ~
I wanted to rock back and forth between myth and distant futures, yesterday, today, and tomorrow. It felt a bit like prophecy and a bit like storytelling.
~By George Murray ~
All historical experience demonstrates the following: Our earth cannot be changed unless in the not too distant future an alteration in the consciousness of individuals is achieved.
~By Hans Kung ~
APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums.
~By Edsger Dijkstra ~
I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.
~By Patrick Henry ~
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.
~By Graham Nash ~
It is our hope that in future discussions with the Mexican government, you will encourage Mexico to do its part to address illegal immigration rather than encourage their citizens to illegally enter the U.S.
~By Elton Gallegly ~
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.
~By Joe Lieberman ~
I am here before you tonight to dedicate this administration to bringing a new renaissance of neighborhood life and community spirit, a renewal of confidence in the future of our city and a revival of opportunity for all Chicago.
~By Jane Byrne ~
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.
~By Stephen Fry ~
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 ~
America cannot turn its back on the economic future and women-owned businesses are part of that future.
~By Ruben Hinojosa ~
Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.
~By Charles Lindbergh ~
We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.
~By Richard P. Feynman ~
We've had to set a workshop up; we've had to equip the workshop and everything else. But all that equipment is there now and whatever projects they want to use it for in the future.
~By David Leslie ~
Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.
~By Dean Acheson ~
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 ~
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