Future Quotes

We stand at a moment in history without precedent. Decisions that are ours to make over the next ten years will have a sweeping impact on the future direction of life on the planet.

It is time to start going door to door and convincing our neighbours to vote for a clean-energy future.

For the ego to survive, it must make time - past and future - more important than the present moment.

You are not seeking to attain some future state. That is the fallacy of many spiritual seekers. They have an image of some state - enlightenment, or whatever they call it - they want to achieve.

The future is an imagined Now, a projection of the mind.

What you encounter at your destination once you get there depends on the quality of this one step. Another way of putting it: What the future holds for you depends on your state of consciousness now.

Whereas the notion of purpose before was always associated with future, there is now a deeper purpose that can only be found in the present, through denial of time.

What keeps things going, what sustains families, what makes work meaningful, what contributes to our wellbeing and what really connects us to Nature is cooperation

Brian Auger is a superb technician on his instrument, but he also plays with feeling that is a rarity. I am looking forward in recording with him in the near future.

The happy man is he who turns his soul Unto the light of joys that he can find; And pays each day its just demand of toll, But shuts the future troubles from his mind.

It is known (to some) that by dwelling in the present, conceding what is necessary to past and future, but no more than is necessary, it is quite possible to live happily ever after

Wishing for the impossible in the future is a good exercise, I think, especially for children; wishing for it in the past is surely the emptiest and saddest of occupations.

The future comes like an unwelcome guest.

Among politicians and businessmen, *Pragmatism* is the current term for 'To hell with our children.'

In history-as-politics, the 'future' is that vacuum in time waiting to be filled with the antics of statesmen.

Europe is secure from any future irruptions of Barbarians; since, before they can conquer, they must cease to be barbarous.

It is the first care of a reformer to prevent any future reformation.

The idea of a poem as a message in a bottle means that it's sent out towards some future reader and the reader who opens that bottle becomes the addressee of the literary text.

One doesn't just wander unvetted into someone else's epic interstellar future history.

Language is the memory of man. Without it he has no past, a paltry present, and an empty future. With it he can bring his dreams to life.

When the lights go out at a power plant sometime in the future, we're going to know that that's a consequence of deprioritizing defense for the sake of an advantage in terms of offense.

I believe quite simply that the small company of the future will be as much a research organization as it is a manufacturing company.

It is up to the historians, not politicians, to judge what happened in the past. Politicians look into the future.

How hard it is to project oneself into the future. We are always prone to think of the conditions which are with us today as being permanent conditions.

practically nothing we do ever stands by itself. If it is good, it will serve some good purpose in the future. If it is evil, it may haunt us and handicap our efforts in unimagined ways.

It is impossible to be a cynic if you live a good deal with young people. Fundamentally, every young person has a feeling that the future is going to hold something of value.

What we must learn to do is to create unbreakable bonds between the sciences and the humanities. We cannot procrastinate. The world of the future is in our making. Tomorrow is now.

When all is said and done, and statesmen discuss the future of the world, the fact remains that people fight these wars.

You [future first ladies] will feel that you are no longer clothing yourself, you are dressing a public monument.

Our obligation to the world is, primarily, our obligation to our own future. Obviously, we cannot develop beyond a certain point unless other nations develop, too.

You need to focus so much on what's in front of you rather than thinking about what might happen in the future.

It's difficult to plan this kind of career. You just need to wait and be picky and try not to commit to just one thing. I'll have to see what's next, see what happens, and see what the future brings.

I can imagine no more important contribution to our country's future than a long-term commitment to improving urban K-12 public schools.

Memory is the keyword which combines past with present, past and future.

I am a firm believer in marriage. In the future I will be married.

The future of Afghanistan is incredibly dark, and decisions are happening incredibly quickly.

I imagine, in the future, life expectancy is long and they use crazy plastic surgery. Who the hell knows what's going on?

O Death, O Beyond, Thou art sweet, thou art strange!

Books are men of higher stature, and the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.

I love the mystery, the reconstruction of history, and the way past and future define each other.

It seems strange to think, that what gives us most hope for the future should be called Dolores, said Margaret.

The doubt of future foes exiles my present joy.

Happiness is the intoxication produced by the moment of poise between a satisfactory past and an immediate future, rich with promise.

Give the young half a chance and they will create their own future, they will even create their own heaven and earth.

Whatever has happened in someone's past, the future is theirs to shape. The first step is to find a way out.

I write books for young adults because I truly connect with them on some very deep level. They are our hope, our future, and inspiring them to be the best they can be is very important to me.

man ... thinks of himself as a creator instead of a user, and this delusion is robbing him, not only of his natural heritage, but perhaps of his future.

We all have an interest, and a duty to future generations, to ensure that the benefits of mobility that we now take for granted, do not place an intolerable burden on our environment

I don't want to spend the rest of my life talking about when I used to drink or when I used to take drugs. I'm more interested in the future.

Children are extremely important. They are the future of the world.