Quotes about future
future illusion persistent
The distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion Albert Einstein
future past looking-to-the-future
We are always looking into the future, but we see only the past. Sophie Swetchine
future age use
Every generation enjoys the use of a vast hoard bequeathed to it by antiquity, and transmits that hoard, augmented by fresh acquisitions, to future ages. Thomas B. Macaulay
future men land
And then, the Earth being small, mankind will migrate into space, and will cross the airless Saharas which separate planet from planet and sun from sun. The Earth will become a Holy Land which will be visited by pilgrims from all the quarters of the Universe. Finally, men will master the forces of Nature; they will become themselves architects of systems, manufacturers of worlds. William Winwood Reade
future opportunity inheritance
The future is not an inheritance, it is an opportunity and an obligation. William J. Clinton
future people giving
The new energy future is decentralised, entrepreneurial and needs people like you to say 'Give me a clean car, give me solar shingles to put on my roof - give me a clean future'
future helping-others making-a-difference
We cannot build our own future without helping others to build theirs.
future vision shelves
The future has no shelf life Warren G. Bennis
future madness certain
Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized upon by a madness which forced them to commit the very acts which make it certain that what they dread will happen. Rebecca West
future achievement challenges
The future is not a gift: it is an achievement. Every generation helps make its own future. This is the essential challenge of the present Robert Kennedy
future motto
For the future, the motto is, "No days unalert." Robert Greene
future issues firsts
It is time to understand the environment for what it is: the national security issue of the early twenty-first century. Robert D. Kaplan
future believe shapes
What you believe about the future shapes, informs, and determines how you live now. Rob Bell
future heart chance
Tomorrow I see change, a chance to build a new. Built on spirit intent of heart, and ideals based on truth. Tupac Shakur
future looks littles
They who look but little into futurity, have, perhaps, the quickest sensation of the present. Samuel Johnson
future pregnancy goal
It is said that the present is pregnant with the future. Voltaire
future pennies fantasy
As chairman of the Senate subcommittee responsible for NASA appropriations, I say not a penny for this nutty fantasy. William Proxmire
future looks human-nature
Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature. Walter Savage Landor
future happy-accidents used
The future is not what it used to be. Yogi Berra
future past two
There are two processes which we adopt consciously or unconsciously when we try to prophesy. We can seek a period in the past whose conditions resemble as closely as possible those of our day, and presume that the sequel to that period will, save for some minor alterations, be similar. Secondly, we can survey the general course of development in our immediate past, and endeavor to prolong it into the near future. The first is the method the historian; the second that of the scientist. Only the second is open to us now, and this only in a partial sphere. Winston Churchill
future reality thinking
I think the most important issue we have as a people is what we started, and that is to begin to trust our own thinking again and belive in ourselves enough to think that we can articulate our own vision of the future and then work to make sure that that vision becomes a reality. Wilma Mankiller
future harvest-time years
Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done and not some future day or future year. It is today that we fit ourselves for the greater usefulness of tomorrow. Today is the seed time, now are the hours of work, and tomorrow comes the harvest and the playtime. W. E. B. Du Bois
future past perfect
The past is always tense, the future perfect. Zadie Smith
future guarantees behavior
But the only possible guarantee of the future is responsible behavior in the present. Wendell Berry
future obsession granted
Our obsession with security is a measure of the power we have granted the future to hold over us.
future cutting trying
We have embraced the 21st century by entering such cutting-edge industries as brick, carpet, insulation and paint. Try to control your excitement. Warren Buffett
future desperate rage
All futurity seems teeming with endless destruction never to be repelled; Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage. William Blake
future rage desperate
Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage.
future moon men
By the year 2000 we will undoubtedly have a sizable operation on the Moon, we will have achieved a manned Mars landing and it's entirely possible we will have flown with men to the outer planets. Wernher von Braun
future believe years
If we were to start today on an organized and well-supported space program I believe a practical passenger rocket can be built and tested within ten years.
future flying grandfather
There are flying grandfathers. But I intend to be an orbiting grandfather.
future moon dancing
My friends they were dancing here in the streets of Huntsville when our first satellite orbited the Earth. They were dancing again when the first Americans landed on the Moon. I'd like to ask you, don't hang up your dancing slippers.
future home men
The first men who set out for Mars had better make sure they leave everything at home in apple-pie order. They won't get back to earth for more than two and a half years. The difficulties of a trip to mars are formidable. . . . What curious information will these first explorers carry back from Mars? Nobody knows-and its extremely doubtful that anyone now living will ever know. All that can be said with certainty today is this: the trip will be made, and will be made . . . someday.