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Quotes About Future

I am the leader of a party. I have only two years more as President, and I cannot take an action without thinking what will be its effect upon the party's future; otherwise I might throw away my six years' work, and have the humiliation of seeing a successor undo the entire New Deal.
~ Upton Sinclair
Oh, sorrow beyond telling! Oh, sheep that none can save! Oh, heartbreak of the future! O shepherd, speak from the grave! Lanny thought that these verses said something to the American people.
~ Upton Sinclair
The history of Germany is becoming a melodrama," wrote the Jewish financier. "In times to come people will refuse to believe it.
~ Upton Sinclair
The future of Europe rests between the Communists and the Socialists, and if you try to stop Socialism you will drive the workers straight into the Communist camp. Socialization of basic industry and free co-operatives in small manufacturing and retail trade—that is the only program that has any chance of winning Western Europe and keeping it.
~ Upton Sinclair
Keep pace with the present. Take a trip to the moon. envision the future.
~ Uta Hagen
Change had come over him without his knowing. There had been no precise point at which the city had lost its romance and promise, no point at which he had begun to consider himself old, his career closed, and his visions of the future became only visions of Anand's future. Each realization had been delayed and had come, not as a surprise, but as a statement of a condition long accepted.
~ V.S. Naipaul
during the past 30 years the maximum energy density of batteries has roughly tripled, and even if we were to triple that again densities would still be well below 3,000 Wh/kg in 2050—falling far short of taking a wide-body plane from New York to Tokyo or from Paris to Singapore, something we have been doing daily for decades with kerosene-fueled Boeings and Airbuses.
~ Vaclav Smil
No forecasts then – only brief reviews of some key factors that will determine the world's future quest for a reliable and affordable energy supply, and the major resource and technical options we can use during the next half-century.
~ Vaclav Smil
And long-distance electricity-powered commercial flight (equivalent to a kerosene-powered Boeing 787 from New York to Tokyo) is the outstanding example of the last category: as we will see, this is an energy conversion that will remain unrealistic for a long time to come.
~ Vaclav Smil
This book has only modest goals: to remind us that success is only one of the outcomes of our ceaseless quest for invention; that failure can follow initial acceptance; that the bold dreams of market dominance may remain unrealized; and that even after generations of (sometimes intensifying) efforts, we may not be any closer to the commercial applications first envisaged decades ago. And what is true about the past is, despite recent claims to the contrary, likely to be repeated in the future.
~ Vaclav Smil
Without science, there would be no you; without you, the future would offer a much narrower prospect.
~ Val McDermid
I've read the stories. Teenagers committing suicide because all they can see ahead of them is shame and disgrace. Kids running away from home because they feel like they've list their future. Well, I'm not having that happen to Torin.
~ Val McDermid
My future would be devoted to strength--of character and muscle.
~ Valerie Frankel
She seemed to represent a conscious choice between (1) a healthy, strong future of thriving and surviving and (2) a slothful existence of inactivity, illness, decline, and dependence.
~ Valerie Frankel
Man's innate yearning for freedom can be suppressed but never destroyed. Totalitarianism cannot renounce violence. If it does, it perishes. Eternal, ceaseless violence, overt or covert, is the basis of totalitarianism. Man does not renounce freedom voluntarily. This conclusion holds out hope for our time, hope for the future.
~ Vasily Grossman
effect the exchange of labor and services by means of an exchange of heartbeats. estimate every task in terms of heartbeats-the monetary unit of the future, in which all individuals are equally wealthy.
~ Velimir Khlebnikov
We have to trust in our future
~ Velma Wallis
That day will come. But at the moment it is this day that has to be lived.
~ Victor Canning
Without questions there are no answers. And without answers no truth, no progress, no future.
~ Victor Canning
The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.
~ Victor Hugo
Love is the only future God offers.
~ Victor Hugo
Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
~ Victor Hugo
The future has many names: For the weak, it means the unattainable. For the fearful, it means the unknown. For the courageous, it means opportunity.
~ Victor Hugo
It is man's consolation that the future is to be a sunrise instead of a sunset.
~ Victor Hugo