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I don't know what the future may hold, but I know who holds the future.

Ralph Abernathy

Know, May, Hold

When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat?

Chuck Palahniuk

Promise, Being, Did

It looks like the future's really bright.

Michael P. Anderson

Looks, Bright, Like

Yesterday is a cancelled check. Today is cash on the line. Tomorrow is a promissory note.

Hank Stram

Today, Tomorrow, Yesterday

Trying to tear down the past prohibits you from building up your future.

Lil Wayne

Past, Building, You

The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day a movement is only people moving.

Gloria Steinem

Day, Moving, People

I welcome and seek your ideas, but do not bring me small ideas; bring me big ideas to match our future.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Welcome, Small, Me

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

John Oldham

Hat, Beneath, Lies

Sustainable development is a fundamental break that's going to reshuffle the entire deck. There are companies today that are going to dominate in the future simply because they understand that.

Francois-Henri Pinault

Today, Development

I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely seriously disturb himself or herself and how to overcome disturbance when it occurs.

Albert Ellis

School, Child, Think

Germany is our fatherland Europe is our future.

Helmut Kohl

Europe, Germany, Fatherland

The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious.

John Sculley

Possibilities, See, Become

The role of an orchestra in the 21st century isn't just playing, it's about developing future audiences and performers.

Leonard Slatkin

Orchestra, 21st Century

One of the primary reasons why the human brain has evolved to look so far into the future is so that we can take actions in the present that will bring us to a better future rather than a worse one.

Daniel Goldstein

Brain, Better, Why

Must we wait for selection to solve the problems of overpopulation, exhaustion of resources, pollution of the environment and a nuclear holocaust, or can we take explicit steps to make our future more secure? In the latter case, must we not transcend selection?

B. F. Skinner

Problems, Environment

I think part of the problem with charity is that it tends to make us view people as helpless victims. I think in the future, we'll look back on charity in the same way that we look back on colonialism today: as a very paternalistic system that doesn't fully recognise the full spectrum of humanity.

Leila Janah

Today, Humanity, Problem

A new, a vast, and a powerful language is developed for the future use of analysis, in which to wield its truths so that these may become of more speedy and accurate practical application for the purposes of mankind than the means hitherto in our possession have rendered possible.

Ada Lovelace

Powerful, Language, New

I invite you, citizens, to open your eyes and to give serious attention to the future. Reflect on the disasters which may ensue from longer obstinacy. Submit to lawful authority, if you wish to preserve the South untouched. Save your families and your property.

Toussaint Louverture

Eyes, Wish, You

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

Past, Impossible, Live

We must strive to encourage East and West not only to move towards each other but also to encourage them to find a new philosophy, a philosophy which will serve as a tool determining the future of Planet Earth - our common and only shelter.

Nursultan Nazarbayev

Philosophy, Earth, New

My philosophy is to take one day at a time. I don't worry about the future. Tomorrow is even out of sight for me.

Bobby Darin

Time, Day, Philosophy

Use your lives wisely, my friends, and conserve these precious freedoms for future generations.

Ted Nugent

Friends, Precious

I just want the future to happen faster. I can't imagine the future without robots.

Nolan Bushnell

Robots, Want, Faster

Biodiversity starts in the distant past and it points toward the future.

Frans Lanting

Past, Biodiversity, Toward

Don't be intimidated by people who seem to be experts. Hear their points of view and get their judgements. But at the end of day, you've got to make a judgement because it's not their life that's going to be affected so much as your future.

Robert Dallek

Life, Day, End

The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.

James A. Baldwin

Heaven, Everyone, Now

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.

Charles de Montesquieu

Fool, Content, Boring

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Jean Baudrillard

Love, Light, World

In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and plural at a lower cost. If you cannot accurately predict the future then you must flexibly be prepared to deal with various possible futures.

Edward de Bono

You, Be Prepared, Flexible

The cost of adding a feature isn't just the time it takes to code it. The cost also includes the addition of an obstacle to future expansion. The trick is to pick the features that don't fight each other.

John Carmack

Time, Fight, Cost

If we are to better the future we must disturb the present.

Catherine Booth

Better, Present, Must

My entire life has been an attempt to get back to the kind of feelings you have on a field. The sense of brotherhood, the esprit de corps, the focus - there being no past or future, just the ball. As trite as it sounds, I was happiest playing ball.

David Duchovny

Life, Focus, Past

The future of the world belongs to the youth of the world, and it is from the youth and not from the old that the fire of life will warm and enlighten the world. It is your privilege to breathe the breath of life into the dry bones of many around you.

Tom Mann

Life, Youth, World

The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future?

Jules Verne

Great, Water, Earth

The hierarchy of relations, from the molecular structure of carbon to the equilibrium of the species and ecological whole, will perhaps be the leading idea of the future.

Joseph Needham

Idea, Will, Carbon

Nonetheless, Article 5 makes clear that if an Iraqi civilian who is not a member of the armed forces, has engaged in attacks on Coalition forces, the Geneva Convention permits the use of more coercive interrogation approaches to prevent future attacks.

John Yoo

Clear, Armed Forces, Engaged

I think life is far too short to concentrate on your past. I rather look into the future.

Lou Reed

Life, Short, Past

Denver is a city that will be far more defined by its future than its past.

John Hickenlooper

City, Past, Will

Everything that ever happened is still happening. Past, present and future keep happening in the eternity which is Here and Now.

James Broughton

Past, Present, Happening

I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man is the god of himself and that his future can only be triumphant?

Eugenio Montale

God, Man, Ignorance

I know I'm going to blow one day. My life is doomed the way it is. I have no future.

Mike Tyson

Life, Day, My Life

Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible.

Alan Dundes

Progress, Impossible

The future is purchased by the present.

Samuel Johnson

Present, Purchased

The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.

Bill Watterson

Problem, Present, Turning

The most reliable way to forecast the future is to try to understand the present.

John Naisbitt

Present, Way, Try

Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.

Margaret Fuller

Love, Good, Two

After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world hangs.

Wallace Stevens

World, Yes, Final

I go to school the youth to learn the future.

Robert Frost

School, Youth, Learn

The nation will be shaped for decades by decisions that are made by President Bush and the Senate about the future of the Supreme Court.

Ralph G. Neas

Decisions, Nation, President

The global economic outlook remains fragile and uncertain. Global economic imbalances persist and we must address them or risk future instability.

Julia Gillard

Risk, Economic, Fragile

We've demonstrated a strong track record of being very disciplined with the use of our cash. We don't let it burn a hole in our pocket, we don't allow it to motivate us to do stupid acquisitions. And so I think that we'd like to continue to keep our powder dry, because we do feel that there are one or more strategic opportunities in the future.

Steve Jobs

Strong, Opportunities

The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be.

Paul Valery

Everything, Like, Used

Tonight we send a message to our party that here in Illinois, there will be a new generation of Republican leaders and we will fight to provide a better tomorrow for future generations. We've made clear the status quo is no longer acceptable.

Adam Kinzinger

Tomorrow, Fight, Party

We don't see very far in the future, we are very focused on one idea at a time, one problem at a time, and all these are incompatible with rationality as economic theory assumes it.

Daniel Kahneman

Time, Problem, See

Evolution never looks to the future.

Richard Dawkins

Evolution, Looks, Never

I am confident that when the facts and policies have been examined, when the record of performances have been reviewed, Barack Obama and Joe Biden will once again be elected to lead our beloved country to a better future.

Jimmy Carter

I Am, Better, Facts

Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.

Camille Paglia

Music, Art, Dance

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

Path, Small, See

When you realize the value of all life, you dwell on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future.

Dian Fossey

Life, Value, Past

Future is mobile computing - smartphones and tablets are just elements of it. The industry is on the verge of a whole new paradigm.

Thorsten Heins

New, Paradigm, Elements

They say that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger and I've learnt a great deal, but you can never predict the future, so the best thing is just to do whatever you're asked to do to the best of your ability.

Jeremy Hunt

Best, Great, Stronger

In traditional Hindu families like ours, men provided and women were provided for. My father was a patriarch and I a pliant daughter. The neighborhood I'd grown up in was homogeneously Hindu, Bengali-speaking, and middle-class. I didn't expect myself to ever disobey or disappoint my father by setting my own goals and taking charge of my future.

Bharati Mukherjee

Women, Father, Daughter

Every single immigrant we have, undocumented or documented, is a future American. That's just the truth of it.

Junot Diaz

Truth, American, Immigrant

On Earth Day, we celebrate all the gifts the world and nature make available to us. We recognize our complete dependence on its bounty. And we acknowledge the need for good stewardship to preserve its fruits for future generations.

John Hoeven

Nature, Day, Good

After centuries of dormancy, young women... can now look toward a future moulded by their own hands.

Rita Levi-Montalcini

Women, Hands, Look

You can't have people making decisions about the future of the world who are scientifically illiterate. That's a recipe for disaster. And I don't mean just whether a politician is scientifically literate, but people who vote politicians into office.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Decisions, World, People

The future of communicating with customers rests in engaging with them through every possible channel: phone, e-mail, chat, Web, and social networks. Customers are discussing a company's products and brand in real time. Companies need to join the conversation.

Marc Benioff

Time, Conversation, Company

I'm the son of a pediatrician, and I do believe that the most important resource we have is our kids. And I think the most important thing for America's future is to invest more in our children.

Ezekiel Emanuel

Children, Son, America

I don't mind if my future is long or short, as long as I'm doing the right thing. And as long as I behave for other people.

Henry Allingham

Short, Mind, People

I'm reasonably optimistic about the future, especially the future of the United States - for the century, at least.

Elon Musk

United, Optimistic

There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.

George Carlin

Past, Present, Only

We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.

Adlai E. Stevenson

Path, Present, Know

Johns Hopkins introduced me to two defining events in my life: commitment to biomedical research and meeting my future wife, Mary.

Peter Agre

Life, Wife, Commitment

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.

Susan Sontag

Past, Present, Existence

Instead of just giving lip service to improving our schools, I will actually put the kids first and the teachers union behind in giving our kids better teachers, better options and better choices for a better future.

Mitt Romney

Service, Giving, Choices

I'm always interested in looking forward toward the future. Carving out new ways of looking at things.

Herbie Hancock

Looking Forward, Looking

It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen. We must dare to invent the future.

Thomas Sankara

Today, Yesterday, Want

I deeply believe that if the Australian Labor Party, a party of which I have been a proud member for more than 30 years, is to have the best future for our nation, then it must change fundamentally its culture and to end the power of faceless men. Australia must be governed by the people, not by the factions.

Kevin Rudd

Change, Best, Culture

Upper classes are a nation's past the middle class is its future.

Ayn Rand

Past, Class, Nation

How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.

Charles Darwin

Children, Present

The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.

Karl Marx

Country, Image, Own

Winners live in the present tense. People who come up short are consumed with future or past. I want to be living in the now.

Alex Rodriguez

Short, Past, People

I owe everything to Nirvana. But I can't let that overshadow the future. For the first few years, I didn't even want to talk about Nirvana. Partly because it was just painful to talk about losing Kurt but also because I wanted the Foo Fighters to mean something.

Dave Grohl

Losing, Want, Mean

The future of humanity is going to bifurcate in two directions: Either it's going to become multiplanetary, or it's going to remain confined to one planet and eventually there's going to be an extinction event.

Elon Musk

Humanity, Event, Two

I think that the first thing is you should have a strategic asset allocation mix that assumes that you don't know what the future is going to hold.

Ray Dalio

Know, Think, You

Live life to the fullest, for the future is scarce.

Nick Carter

Life, Live Life, Live

The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make.

William Morris

Past, Living, Will

I've often been asked what drives me, particularly through the last 50 years of abuse, and ridicule. What has kept me going is one word - care. I care enough about the land, the wildlife, people, the future of humanity. If you care enough, you will do whatever you have to do, no matter what the opposition.

Allan Savory

Humanity, Me, People

There is a different future that is available to North Korea, if they choose differently.

Mitchell Reiss

Choose, Different

I was a peripheral visionary. I could see the future, but only way off to the side.

Steven Wright

Way, See, Visionary

It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.

Alan Rickman

Unknown, Think, Wonderful

By affirming your own gifts and accomplishments, you build your confidence and increase your ability to build a brighter future.

Debbie Ford

Confidence, You, Build

Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.

Henry Miller

Man, Destiny, Matter

I've got a new life now, a new future, there's a lot more to Lennox Lewis than just being a boxer.

Lennox Lewis

Life, New Life, New

The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.

John Maynard Keynes

Time, Ignorance, Dark

The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.

Abraham Lincoln

Great, Men, Equal

To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.

Robert M. Pirsig

Life, Mountain, Goal

The more we shelter children from every disappointment, the more devastating future disappointments will be.

Fred G. Gosman

Children, Disappointment

The risk of the Holocaust is not that it will be forgotten, but that it will be embalmed and surrounded by monuments and used to absolve all future sins.

Zygmunt Bauman

Risk, Monuments, Will

It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task.

Robert Kennedy

Understand, Human, See