Future - Quotes & Sayings

For all my years in public life, I have believed that America must sail toward the shores of liberty and justice for all. There is no end to that journey, only the next great voyage. We know the future will outlast all of us, but I believe that all of us will live on in the future we make.

Edward Kennedy

Through a respectful exchange of ideas and emphasis on shared goals, I am confident we can put many of our disagreements behind us to ensure a better future for all Americans.

Todd Young

Somebody who can reckon with the past, who can live with the past in the present, and move towards the future - that's fabulous.

Bruce Springsteen

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.

Richard P. Feynman

If we have an atom that is in an excited state and so is going to emit a photon, we cannot say when it will emit the photon. It has a certain amplitude to emit the photon at any time, and we can predict only a probability for emission; we cannot predict the future exactly.

Richard P. Feynman

The future is called 'perhaps', which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.

Tennessee Williams

I knew I always wanted to be 50 percent social media and 50 percent traditional media. Because I believe the stars of the future will need both.

Jake Paul

Deficits mean future tax increases, pure and simple. Deficit spending should be viewed as a tax on future generations, and politicians who create deficits should be exposed as tax hikers.

Ron Paul

My future is in my past and my past is my present. I must now make the present my future.

Vladimir Horowitz

I have always been very confident and very upbeat about the future potential of India. I think it is a great country with great potential.

Ratan Tata

I want my buildings to take root and look as if they've always been there. It isn't about pastiche or adapting what's already there. It's about trying to blend the future and the past.

Moshe Safdie

If you know you can do it - if you can already chart every day in your future - then why bother? Choose to do something you have more trouble imagining. Take a chance.

Gina Barreca

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

Abdullah II of Jordan

I have a very optimistic view of my future right now. I'm very excited to see where it goes, but I try not to make plans just because I know how unpredictable life can be. Especially the life of an actor, and especially the life of an actor on 'Glee.' I just want to be happy and healthy and surrounded by people I love, as cheesy as it sounds.

Melissa Benoist

Live in the present moment. The past and future are nonexistent. Only the present can be grasped or, better, embraced.

Stephen Hough

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.

Jim Bishop

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

William James

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

Larry David

How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.

Charles Darwin

The future of communicating with customers rests in engaging with them through every possible channel: phone, e-mail, chat, Web, and social networks. Customers are discussing a company's products and brand in real time. Companies need to join the conversation.

Marc Benioff

Parents are like shuttles on a loom. They join the threads of the past with threads of the future and leave their own bright patterns as they go.

Fred Rogers

Drake was a fan before a friend. He already was a Cash Money millionaire. When opportunity came, maybe we put the most on the table. That was my thinking because I just thought that this was a very talented young man. We saw a future with him, so it was about him being comfortable.

Birdman

The children who are 'our future' will inherit a world created not just by parental devotion but by the sort of zealous, focused endeavors that can preclude good parenting.

Virginia Postrel

What people want is a sense of a better future to come.

Douglas Alexander

Who owns the future? This is the question at the heart of every stock market.

John Landgraf

We need to have a vision of the world we want to create so that we can see ourselves as collaborators with future generations in the project of shaping it.

David Grinspoon

As the fashion carousel spins ever faster, the concern is that, while the stream of newness never runs out, there's going to be a good deal more crash and burn among designers in the future.

Suzy Menkes

I don't know what the future holds. All I know is, I'm good today. Real good.

Chris Farley

While the Bible's account of the flood is one of judgment, it is also one of mercy and salvation. Likewise, our future full-size evangelistic Noah's Ark will honor the Bible as God's word and not treat it as a pagan fable.

Ken Ham

We can't turn a blind eye to the importance of the well-being of our children, and we need to pay close attention to building the future leaders of tomorrow.

Goldie Hawn

It is our character that supports the promise of our future - far more than particular government programs or policies.

William Bennett

If I could time travel into the future, my first port of call would be the point where medical technology is at its best because, like most people on this planet, I have this aversion to dying.

Neal Asher

I think the future also will not belong to those who are cynical or those who stand on the sidelines.

Paul Wellstone

The combination of brilliant ideas and entrepreneurial spirit should lead us to a safer and more secure future.

Vinod Khosla

A nascent economy needs a transparent and accountable government and an efficient civil service to help meet social needs. Its people need jobs and a belief in their country's future. A surfeit of aid has been shown to be unable to help achieve these goals.

Dambisa Moyo

True revolutionaries are like God - they create the world in their own image. 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.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

The man who can put himself in the place of other men, who can understand the workings of their minds, need never worry about what the future has in store for him.

Owen D. Young

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.

Arnold H. Glasow

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.

Arthur C. Clarke

Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.

Mason Cooley

I can't change history, I don't want to change history. I can only change the future. I'm working on that.

Boris Becker

It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen. We must dare to invent the future.

Thomas Sankara

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

Albert Einstein

We need to think of the future and the planet we are going to leave to our children and their children.

Kofi Annan

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.

James Dobson

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.

Marcel Pagnol

Innovation is the calling card of the future.

Anna Eshoo

To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.

John F. Kennedy

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Must we wait for selection to solve the problems of overpopulation, exhaustion of resources, pollution of the environment and a nuclear holocaust, or can we take explicit steps to make our future more secure? In the latter case, must we not transcend selection?

B. F. Skinner