future
Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘future’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“I was cast in ‘Thor’ and I’m cast as a Nordic god. If you know anything about the Nords, they don’t look like me but there you go. I think that’s a sign of the times for the future. I think we will see multi-level casting. I think we will see that, and I think…
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“If we want to deliver opportunity for all, we need an economy that delivers jobs for the future.” -John Major
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“We inadvertently bombed the Chinese Embassy. But Clinton now is working very hard. He has sent a letter of apology to the Chinese. And, he’s also given them a gift certificate for future nuclear secrets.” -David Letterman
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“I am not interested in the past, except as the road to the future.” -Gianni Versace
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“The strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz, if you like.” -Ben Okri
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“The subject of criminal rehabilitation was debated recently in City Hall. It’s an appropriate place for this kind of discussion because the city has always employed so many ex-cons and future cons.” -Mike Royko
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“One of the most important things that I did to turn my life around was to realize and to accept that from this minute, that’s all we have. Everything that happened behind us we cannot change so you might as well look to the future.” -Nick Carter
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“In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to remember seven generations in the past and consider seven generations in the future when making decisions that affect the people.” -Wilma Mankiller
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“No one is more important to the future of our state than our teachers.” -Mike Huckabee
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“Sometimes when I’m going to sleep, I think, ‘Oh God, my future husband is out there somewhere and I might know him, or I might not, and I wonder what he’s doing and I wonder if he knows me.’ I just always think that’s so fascinating, that even when you were two years old, your…
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“There’s no artist in this world that doesn’t enjoy the dream that if they have bad reviews now, the story of Keats can redeem them, in their fantasy or imagination, in the future. I think Keats’ poem ‘Endymion’ is a really difficult poem, and I’m not surprised that a lot of people pulled it apart…
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“When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments for the Shell oil company, I was frequently reminded of an Arabic saying: ‘Those who claim to foresee the future are lying, even if by chance they are later proved right.’” -Vince Cable
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“I believe it is essential for our planetary future to develop tools that can change the consciousness which has created the crisis that we are in.” -Stanislav Grof
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“I never have planned a whole lot of future. It’s one day at a time.” -Darrell Royal
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“The Arab World is writing a new future the pen is in our own hands.” -Abdallah II
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“Blade Runner appears regularly, two or three times a year in various shapes and forms of science fiction. It set the pace for what is essentially urban science fiction, urban future and it’s why I’ve never re-visited that area because I feel I’ve done it.” -Ridley Scott
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“Sometimes I make very selfish choices like I did ‘Once Upon A Time’ for my inner 8-year-old and my hypothetical future child. I’ve done some movies because I would regret them if I didn’t, but other projects I’ve done because they’ve scared me or if I felt I needed to do a big romantic comedy…
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“I had been feeling a little rum. I didn’t think it was anything serious because years ago I felt a lump and it was benign. I assumed this would be too. It kind of takes the wind out of your sails, and I don’t know what the future holds, if anything.” -Maggie Smith
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“Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion.” -Al Goldstein
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“When you’re poor, you know nothing about the future, you know nothing about the world, nothing that goes on outside 300 yards around you.” -Lee Trevino
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“President Obama’s 100-day plan is pretty impressive. I think it’s a Wow 100-plus days. The administration is not operating from fear, it is trying to drive change for the future, and that’s a good thing.” -Andrea Jung
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“Like many other touchstones of twenty-first-century pop culture, ‘The Sopranos’ was hatched in the late Nineties, predicting a future that never arrived. It was designed for a decade that would be just like the Nineties, except more so, in an America that enjoyed seeing itself as smarter and braver and freer than ever before.” -Rob…
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“Isn’t it amazing the way the future succeeds in creating an appropriate past?” -John Leonard
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“If younger people see older people who haven’t planned ahead and have to rely on charity, the young will be more likely to provide for the future. Today when someone plans poorly, the only consequence people see is a demand for more government.” -Harry Browne
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“I think of the past and the future as well as the present to determine where I am, and I move on while thinking of these things.” -Tadao Ando
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“There are no limits to our future if we don’t put limits on our people.” -Jack Kemp
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“Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And it’s what I want to do in the future: I want to take my audio cinema and put it on the screen.” -Ice T
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“As an American I wanted to explore… why are we the only first world country that still has capital punishment? Is it because we’re too afraid to really examine the system, or is it because we really truly believe that this is the best way to deter future crime?” -Jodi Picoult
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“There is no word for feeling nostalgic about the future, but that’s what a parent’s tears often are, a nostalgia for something that has not yet occurred. They are the pain of hope, the helplessness of hope, and finally, the surrender to hope.” -Michael Ian Black
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“I enjoy every minute, because there are going to be a lot of moments in your future that you’re going to wish you held onto longer.” -Joe Nichols
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“A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation in life in which God, in his infinite mercy, has seen fit to place us, to be perfectly resigned to our lot in life, whatever it may be.” -Ann Plato
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“Advances in technology will continue to reach far into every sector of our economy. Future job and economic growth in industry, defense, transportation, agriculture, health care, and life sciences is directly related to scientific advancement.” -Christopher Bond
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“The American idea is as promising, imaginative, and full of the unexpected as the land itself. The land represents freedom – the frontier, the ability to make a new future with your own bare hands.” -Anna Deavere Smith
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“No, I think the future of humanity will be like the past, we’ll do what we’ve always done and there will still be human beings. Granted, there will always be people doing something different and there are a lot of possibilities.” -Octavia Butler
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“By doing something positive in this world, you’re helping people and the future. We’re all trying to help the world… make it a better place to live. We’re actually still changing the world, aren’t we?” -Rick Danko
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“I have long considered it one of God’s greatest mercies that the future is hidden from us. If it were not, life would surely be unbearable.” -Eugene Forsey
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“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.” -Oliver Stone
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“I made education the highest priority of my campaign – actually education and jobs – and the reason is a simple one: I think the future of America depends on it.” -Charles Schumer
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“Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King’s books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books.” -Anne Rice
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“A nation that does not stand for its children does not stand for anything and will not stand tall in the future.” -Marian Wright Edelman
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“A ring means a commitment. But more than that, it means that you’ve talked about your shared future and have decided together on a shared vision of it.” -Patti Stanger
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“There is a different future that is available to North Korea, if they choose differently.” -Mitchell Reiss
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“That’s one of the most exciting things about Michigan’s future. We need to, we must capitalize on our alternative-energy vehicles that we can produce right here.” -Jennifer Granholm
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“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!” -Zac Efron
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“Every educated person is a future enemy.” -Martin Bormann
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“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.” -Cathy Guisewite
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“The fighter loses more than his pride in the fight he loses part of his future. He’s a step closer to the slum he came from.” -Floyd Patterson
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“The future has a way of arriving unannounced.” -George Will
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“Yeah, it’s odd when you look back at your own work. Some filmmakers don’t look back at their work at all. I look at my work a lot, actually. I feel like I learned something while looking at stuff I’ve done in terms of what I’m going to do in the future, mistakes I’ve made…
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“I would tell 17-year-olds to be proud of who you are. Don’t try to change yourself for others. Focus on school and your future. Boys and friends will come and go, just focus on you and your future.” -Lea Michele
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“Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.” -Alan Lakein
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“I said tonight I wanted to talk to you about love. Look into your hearts. This is our country. This is our future. These are our children and grandchildren. You can trust Mitt.” -Ann Romney
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“Let them look to the past, but let them also look to the future let them look to the land of their ancestors, but let them look also to the land of their children.” -Wilfrid Laurier
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“Cambodia possesses now the rights to look far into the future and everything for making a future construction is waiting for the Cambodian own efforts.” -Hun Sen
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“The idea of going on tour for the rest of my life with old works is not that exciting. As an artist I definitely think the work in future is going to be better than the work in the past, otherwise why do it?” -Damien Hirst
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“The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime.” -Karl Rove
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“Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature.” -Walter Savage Landor
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“I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did.” -Elia Kazan
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“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.” -Edgar Quinet
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“I see a bright future for the biotechnology industry when it follows the path of the computer industry, the path that von Neumann failed to foresee, becoming small and domesticated rather than big and centralized.” -Freeman Dyson
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“AARP knows the future is bright for a generation that’s going to remain healthy and vital for 10, 20, 30, 40 more years. AARP has the information and resources people need throughout their process of reinvention.” -Jane Pauley
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“A store’s best advertisement is the service its goods render, for upon such service rest the future, the good-will, of an organization.” -James Cash Penney
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“We know not of the future and cannot plan for it much.” -Joshua Chamberlain
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“If the euro zone doesn’t come up with a comprehensive vision of its own future, you’ll have a whole range of nationalist, xenophobic and extreme movements increasing across the European Union. And, frankly, questions about the British debate on EU membership will just be a small sideshow compared to the rise of political populism.” -Nick…
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“Having your fiscal house in order and having a more manageable macro-economic future is going to be very useful in creating growth.” -Fareed Zakaria
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“It is strange. I see all the privileges and greatness of the future. It already looks grand, beautiful. Tell them I went lovingly, trustfully, peacefully.” -Thomas Starr King
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“Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future.” -Dee Hock
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“I loved the house the way you would any new house, because it is populated by your future, the family of children who will fill it with noise or chaos and satisfying busy pleasures.” -Jane Smiley
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“Everybody has to be able to participate in a future that they want to live for. That’s what technology can do.” -Dean Kamen
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“I’m a big laser believer – I really think they are the wave of the future.” -Courteney Cox
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“The people in charge, globally, are maniacs. They are maniacs, and unless we do something about it these people are going to deprive us of a future.” -Thom Yorke
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“I came to live in Shepperton in 1960. I thought: the future isn’t in the metropolitan areas of London. I want to go out to the new suburbs, near the film studios. This was the England I wanted to write about, because this was the new world that was emerging.” -J. G. Ballard
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“The future will belong to those who have passion and are willing to work hard to make our country better.” -Paul Wellstone
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“Today is a celebration of hope for the Iraqi people. The Iraqi people can now take control of their government and their future by creating a society that protects the rights endowed to us by our creator – life, liberty and freedom.” -Jim DeMint
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“Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.” -Antoine Rivarol
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“We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work.” -Anna Freud
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“The future of Indo-Pak cricket will depend on how the peace process goes.” -Imran Khan
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“We need the help of other member countries and leaders who, like us, want to see a change in Europe’s direction. That’s also my logic when I tell voters that electing me president will not only shape France’s future, but also initiate change across all of Europe.” -Francois Hollande
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“There are hurdles, there are handicaps, hardships you have to face in life, but you hope for a great future.” -Anil Kapoor
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“The impressions of the spriritual experiences gave my future life its form and content.” -Gustav Mahler
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“Rather than waiting for future trials to determine rules that will impact every citizen, Congress should step in and write a law that takes every American’s rights into consideration.” -Ron Wyden
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“The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify the future.” -Jorge Luis Borges
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“In particular, for younger researchers on whom the future of mankind may depend. We believe that they are working with all the scientific wisdom at their disposal for the preservation of the inheritance of the earth and for the lasting survival of mankind.” -Kenichi Fukui
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“I think there’s a future where the Web and print coexist and they each do things uniquely and complement each other, and we have what could be the ultimate and best-yet array of journalistic venues.” -Dave Eggers
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“I think it’s very clear that the American people are frustrated with this move toward socialism. And so whether you’re back or white, if you believe that the conservative construct is in the best interest of our future, than you too would be voting with Republicans, and if you had the opportunity to run you’d…
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“To live only for some future goal is shallow. It’s the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.” -Robert M. Pirsig
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“The incentive that you give to your youth is going to be the make-or-break future of the country.” -King Abdullah II
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“What we’re discussing privately and publicly, is a budget which is a blueprint for the future which creates jobs, which educates our children, which provides healthcare for all Americans, which takes our deficit down, which gives a tax cut for 95% of the American people.” -Nancy Pelosi
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“I am only 33, I’ve got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. I’m looking forward to the future and I’m proud about the past.” -Ice Cube
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“It’s about time we make the well-being of our young people more important than ideology and politics. As a country, we benefit from investing in their future by investing in teen pregnancy prevention.” -Jane Fonda
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“I’m not certain, but I have a little gypsy blood in me. And my mother always told me that her grandma could give someone the evil eye, and I’d better not cross her because she had some of that blood in her. Mother always believed that she could predict the future, and she had dreams…
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“Habitual texters may not only cheat their existing relationships, they can also limit their ability to form future ones since they don’t get to practice the art of interpreting nonverbal visual cues.” -Jeffrey Kluger
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“The future… seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done.” -Edward Young
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“There’s no point in making predictions. It’s not worth speculating because nothing is set in stone and things change all the time in football. Today there are opportunities that no one knows if they will come round again in the future.” -Cristiano Ronaldo
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“What should be the future of Israel? Is the land the most important choice, and for that reason to keep the whole of the land at any cost, or to have a partition and build the Jewish state on part of the land? And the other part?” -Shimon Peres
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“The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.” -Thornton Wilder
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“Reactionary: a man walking backwards with his face to the future.” -Aneurin Bevan
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“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.” -Carol Bellamy
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“The future is too interesting and dangerous to be entrusted to any predictable, reliable agency. We need all the fallibility we can get. Most of all, we need to preserve the absolute unpredictability and total improbability of our connected minds. That way we can keep open all the options, as we have in the past.”…
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“When I was a kid, I thought movie stars were women and men who were in these great films that we still look at now. But I don’t think there are too many films coming out these days that we’re going to look at in the future and say, ‘This is one of the great…
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“The debt-ceiling vote isn’t about what will be done in the future it is about the integrity of America’s commitment to support the bonds we issue. Elected officials have an obligation to maintain that integrity, regardless of whether they voted for the programs that required the borrowing in the first place.” -John Sununu
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“We can do things the cheap way, the simple way, for the short-term and without regard for the future. Or, we can make the extra effort, do the hard work, absorb the criticism and make decisions that will cause a better future.” -Mike Rounds
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“Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.” -Lester Bangs
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“Children are our future we must take care of them with maximum effort.” -Naomi Campbell
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“I could definitely see myself making a serious movie or a drama in the future.” -Adam Carolla
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“I don’t know what the future holds. Anything is possible.” -Liz Phair
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“A healthy vision of the future is not possible without an accurate knowledge of the past.” -Daisaku Ikeda
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“No one is going to try to fill my mother’s shoes, what she did was fantastic. It’s about making your own future and your own destiny and Kate will do a very good job of that.” -Prince William
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“Kids are meeting in coffee shops and basements figuring out what’s unsustainable in their communities. That’s the future.” -Ian Somerhalder
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“Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.” -Quintilian
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“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.” -Jose Ortega y Gasset
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“My commitment to the security and future of Israel is based upon basic morality as well as enlightened self-interest. Our role in supporting Israel honors our own heritage.” -Gerald R. Ford
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“The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day a movement is only people moving.” -Gloria Steinem
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“Men don’t come up to you to just talk. We come up to you with a plan. We’re looking across the room at you, and we don’t care about your hopes and dreams. We don’t care about what your future holds. We saw something we wanted.” -Steve Harvey
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“While we can remember the past, we cannot write the future. Only our children, the future of our community, can do that.” -Jonathan Sacks
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“Instead of seeing these children for the blessings that they are, we are measuring them only by the standard of whether they will be future deficits or assets for our nation’s competitive needs.” -Jonathan Kozol
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“You can get your money and you put it in the bank, or you can put it in the youth. You can put it in our future.” -will.i.am
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“The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling of a freer and wiser humanity.” -Thomas Mann
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“The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.” -Jessamyn West
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“I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today.” -Penelope Keith
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“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.” -Iain Duncan Smith
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“When you try to predict future E.R.A.’s with past E.R.A.’s, you’re making a mistake.” -Nate Silver
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“There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.” -Jean Rostand
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“What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?” -Thomas a Kempis
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“I don’t have that much forward planning about what I want to do next, or in the future.” -Heath Ledger
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“My kids are the future of the Mayweather family and of the Mayweather brand. I feel our family is stronger if we stay together.” -Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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“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
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“You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it really was.” -Leopold Von Ranke
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“The flesh endures the storms of the present alone the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.” -Thomas Hobbes
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“I think Gingrich has embarrassed the party over time. Whether he’ll do it again in the future, I don’t know. But Gov. Romney never has.” -Chris Christie
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“Since we can’t know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.” -John Holt
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“We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.” -Jacob Bronowski
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“I never remember having a plan. All I could think about was how I was going to afford to get into college or where I was going to stay because I hated being at home. I didn’t really have time to think about anything in the future. I didn’t think about a career or anything.…
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“I never have plans for the future as you never know how things will turn out.” -Nigella Lawson
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“Comedy was the key to everything. I grew up fast and controlled my future by bringing it on faster than it naturally unfolded. I cheated myself out of a childhood but then got a running headstart into adulthood that no one else could keep up with.” -Margaret Cho
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“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.” -Charisma Carpenter
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“Just, you never know what the next day is going to bring. That goes for football, goes for off the field, and I gave up a long time ago trying to predict the future and trying to deal with things I couldn’t deal with.” -Brett Favre
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“I stopped thinking about it after trying to figure out what are the lessons learned, and there are so many. After I had basically sorted that out, I figured it’s time to really look at the future and not at the past.” -Kalpana Chawla
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“I stopped predicting the future a long time ago.” -Fred Durst
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“If we are to better the future we must disturb the present.” -Catherine Booth
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“I knew I could not cope with the future unless I was able to rediscover the past.” -Gene Tierney
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“If other people want to talk about my future I can’t control that.” -Steven Gerrard
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“The future is a bright as the promises of God.” -Adoniram Judson
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“The future battle on the ground will be preceded by battle in the air. This will determine which of the contestants has to suffer operational and tactical disadvantages and be forced throughout the battle into adoption compromise solutions.” -Erwin Rommel
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“You mustn’t take what I say as gospel because no one can second-guess the future.” -James Lovelock
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“Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more if future fortunes were known before!” -John Dryden
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“I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro. This is a passionately racist country it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future.” -Susan Sontag
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“Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations.” -Salman Rushdie
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“Sometime in the future – 25, 50, 75 years hence – what will the situation be like then? By that time the Chinese will have the capability of delivery too.” -Curtis LeMay
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“Life… is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won’t be got rid of.” -Anita Brookner
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“The Republican argument that raising the debt ceiling encourages additional future spending is logically irresponsible. The debt ceiling has to be raised to authorize spending already approved by Congress. Despite that fallacy, the GOP has been able to score political points with its argument.” -Eliot Spitzer
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“The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.” -Marya Mannes
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“The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making…
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“Really, each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket fence up around something. For my generation it was the ’50s, and for other generations it will be something else. Change is scary for everyone, as is complexity, contradiction, and an uncertain future.” -Gary Ross
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“I’d love to do more action stuff, in the future.” -Ashley Tisdale
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“In a time of tight budgets, difficult choices have to be made. We must make sure our very limited resources are spent on priorities. I believe we should have no higher priority than investing in our children’s classrooms and in their future.” -Bob Riley
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“A globalized world is by now a familiar fact of life. Building walls or moats may sound appealing, but the future belongs to those who tend to their people and then boldly engage the rest of the world, near and far.” -Jon Meacham
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“As we divest ourselves of once familiar physical objects – digitize and dematerialize – we approach a ‘Star Trek’ future in which everything can be accessed from the fourth dimension with a few clicks or terse audibles.” -James Wolcott
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“The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue.” -Alfred North Whitehead
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“I’d like to think that the actions we take today will allow others in the future to discover the wonders of landscapes we helped protect but never had the chance to enjoy ourselves.” -Annie Leibovitz
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“You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands – your own.” -Mark Victor Hansen
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“In retrospect, the Millennium marked only a moment in time. It was the events of September 11 that marked a turning point in history, where we confront the dangers of the future and assess the choices facing humankind.” -Tony Blair
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“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…
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“Anything you’re trying to will is focused on the future it’s always associated with some sort of anxiety that makes the present moment somewhat uncomfortable.” -Martha Beck
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“Why does everyone think the future is space helmets, silver foil, and talking like computers, like a bad episode of Star Trek?” -Tracey Ullman
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“Isn’t it a shame that future generations can’t be here to see all the wonderful things we’re doing with their money?” -Earl Wilson
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“For 50 years, nuclear power stations have produced three products which only a lunatic could want: bomb-explosive plutonium, lethal radioactive waste and electricity so dear it has to be heavily subsidised. They leave to future generations the task, and most of the cost, of making safe sites that have been polluted half-way to eternity.” -James…
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“For my future I have no concern, and as a true philosopher, I never would have any, for I know not what it may be: as a Christian, on the other hand, faith must believe without discussion, and the stronger it is, the more it keeps silent.” -Giacomo Casanova
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“I launched The Emeril Lagasse Foundation to provide culinary training, and developmental and educational programs to children in the cities where my restaurants operate. I think everyone has a responsibility to give back to the community if they can, and to help future generations learn new skills.” -Emeril Lagasse
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“Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.” -Alvin Toffler
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“And that’s how we build the economy of the future. An economy with more jobs and less debt, we root it in fairness. We grow it with opportunity. And we build it together.” -Elizabeth Warren
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“The Fuhrer alone is the present and future German reality and its law. Learn to know ever more deeply: from now on every single thing demands decision, and every action responsibility.” -Martin Heidegger
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“We would fight not for the political future of a distant city, rather for principles whose destruction would ruin the possibility of peace and security for the peoples of the earth.” -Neville Chamberlain
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“I honestly don’t know, but if America continues to refuse to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, I see a bleak future not only for American society, but for the world as a whole. This is a global problem that is not going away, and the United States is an obstacle to solving it.” -Peter Singer
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