Quotes About Future

If we have no control over who reads what and when, we have no ability to act in the present or plan for the future. Whoever

Since the nation is defined by its inherent virtue rather than by its future potential, politics becomes a discussion of good and evil rather than a discussion of possible solutions to real problems.

statehood was crucial to future national existence.

defense of states and rights is impossible to undertake if no one learns from the past or believes in the future.

States should invest in science so that the future can be calmly contemplated.

No accumulation of good, no matter how vast, undoes an evil; no rescue of the future, no matter how successful, undoes a murder in the past.

Yet it can be recorded, and it can be understood. Indeed, it must be understood so that its like can be prevented in the future. That must be enough for us and for those who, let us hope, shall follow.

As economic inequality grew, time horizons shrank, and fewer Americans believed that the future held a better version of the present. Lacking a functional state that assured basic social goods taken for granted elsewhere - education, pensions, health care, transport, parental leave, vacations - Americans could be overwhelmed by each day, and lose a sense of the future.

Lacking a functional state that assured basic social goods taken for granted elsewhere—education, pensions, health care, transport, parental leave, vacations—Americans could be overwhelmed by each day, and lose a sense of the future.

You're not the last of the old Jedi, Luke, you're the first of the new

I was always attracted to science fiction movies.

E non dimenticare, straniero, che il sole sorge dalla nostra parte, che l'Est è l'Est, l'Ovest è l'Ovest e che questo non lo si può cambiare. [...] Il sole sorge da noi e noi un giorno domineremo il mondo perché abbiamo tutto quel che ci vuole per farlo. Abbiamo terra, abbiamo gente, abbiamo risorse. [...] Allora, straniero, ricordatelo: il futuro è qua!

Il futuro è una scatola vuota in cui metti tutte le tue illusioni.

Affascinato, come sono sempre stato, dalla ricca certezza del passato, e confuso dall'incertezza del futuro con le sue troppe possibilità, avevo preso il presente solo come materiale di cui godere una volta che fosse diventato passato. E così, il presente m'era sempre sfuggito.

Il passato è un'indispensabile guida per chi vuol visitare il presente o immaginarsi il futuro. In tutti i miei viaggi mi porto sempre dietro i libri di qualcuno che ha percorso quella strada prima di me. Non solo mi fanno compagnia, ma me ne servo come termine di paragone, come misura di quello che vedo.

Il passato è un'indispensabile guida per chi vuol visitare il presente o immaginarsi il futuro.

Knowing that everything comes to an end is a gift of experience, a consolation gift for knowing that we ourselves are coming to an end. Before we get it we live in a continuous present, and imagine the future as more of that present. Happiness is endless happiness, innocent of its own sure passing. Pain is endless pain.

A man who denies his past is a man who truly denies himself a future, for he refuses to know himself, and to deny knowledge of oneself is to stumble through life as handicapped as the blind mute.

My position is not that John Kerry is either Jesus Christ or the prophet Mohammad. My position is that John Kerry is the possibility of restarting politics.

My children will suffer in ways I fear I can foresee but am hopeless to prevent.

The very act of enunciating the most pessimistic system attests to a fundamental optimism and hope for progress beyond the status quo. Though the good may be impossible to realize, it is also impossible to abandon entirely. The production of knowledge itself points, often despite itself, toward a better future.

ce qui convainc de la nécessité de la vie future, ce ne sont pas les raisonnements mais ceci : tu marches dans la vie la main dans la main avec un homme, et tout à coup, cet homme disparaît là-bas dans le néant, et toi tu restes devant cet abîme et tu y plonges ton regard (Guerre et Paix, livre deuxième, 2ième partie, ch. XII)

But we can't escape into the future like we can escape into the past. So those of us who are not certain of things, and there are an awful lot of us, often rush back to the past. And each one has a particular past he prefers to the present. Sometimes I feel that any past is preferable to the present.

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed, to a new generation of Americans, born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace." —From John F. Kennedy's inaugural speech, January 1961 Given