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In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.
Blaise Pascal
Past, Action, See
I am telling you that I am very grateful and am so proud of you for being a symbolic generation that is calling for change to the better, that is dreaming for a better future, and is making the future.
Hosni Mubarak
Change, Grateful, I Am
For all of its uncertainty, we cannot flee the future.
Barbara Jordan
Uncertainty, Cannot
If you do not think about your future, you cannot have one.
John Galsworthy
Think, You, Cannot
If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract teach him to deduct.
Fran Lebowitz
Child, Teach, You
The way you personally communicate is 90 per cent of how you will be evaluated by any future employer.
Kate Reardon
Way, You, Will
The future is keeping you out of the present time.
Van Morrison
Time, Present, You
What is history? An echo of the past in the future a reflex from the future on the past.
Victor Hugo
History, Past, Reflex
We need to think of the future and the planet we are going to leave to our children and their children.
Kofi Annan
Children, Think, Need
Our combat mission is ending, but our commitment to Iraq's future is not.
Barack Obama
Commitment, Ending, Mission
In the future, I can imagine that we will genetically modify ourselves using the genes that have doubled our life span since we were chimpanzees.
Michio Kaku
Life, I Can, Will
You can make a board for all the goals you want in your life with the pictures on it, and that's great, daydreaming is wonderful, but you can never plan your future.
Taylor Swift
Life, Goals, Great
Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.
Michel de Montaigne
Self, Face, Inner
This future is ours to embrace. Whether we, the established generations, choose to accept that is in our court.
Rosario Dawson
Accept, Choose, Embrace
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
Gift, Working, Apology
We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there.
Charles Kettering
Rest, Will, Spend
I know how sobering and exhausting parenthood is. But the reality is that our children's future depends on us as parents. Because we know that the first years truly last forever.
Rob Reiner
Children, Parents, Reality
My future's about trying to be a better man.
Terrence Howard
Man, Trying, Better
My philosophy is really based on humility. I don't think we know enough to fix either diagnostics or therapeutics. The future of psychiatry is clinical neuroscience, based on a much deeper understanding of the brain.
Thomas R. Insel
Humility, Brain, Philosophy
Life passes us by if all we do is focus on the future. Being present, for the present, is really what is important.
Brandon Jenner
Life, Focus, Present
Your future takes precedence over your past. Focus on your future, rather than on the past.
Gary Ryan Blair
Focus, Past, Rather
There is nothing more important to our Nation's future, to our homeland security, and to our economy than ensuring we have a top-notch educational system that is the envy of the world.
Jim Jeffords
World, Security, Economy
The Arab World is writing a new future the pen is in our own hands.
Abdullah II of Jordan
Writing, World, Hands
Your future is still before you. Your land is a vast storehouse of mineral and agricultural wealth awaiting further development for the benefit of mankind. It potentialities are magnificent.
Charles E. Wilson
Wealth, Development, You
We are not out to boast that there is so much percentage of growth per year. Our real concern is how it affects the lives of people, the future of our country.
Aung San Suu Kyi
Growth, People, Country
The impressions of the spriritual experiences gave my future life its form and content.
Gustav Mahler
Life, Content, Experiences
Unification is not our present goal. That is a future program.
Kim Dae Jung
Goal, Present, Program
When you realize the value of all life, you dwell less on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future.
Dian Fossey
Life, Value, Past
Reactionary: a man walking backwards with his face to the future.
Aneurin Bevan
Man, Walking, Face
The future is the worst thing about the present.
Gustave Flaubert
Present, Worst, Worst Thing
I would vote against raising the national debt ceiling. Again, this is about mortgaging the future of unborn generations of Americans. It's a form of taxation without representation. I don't think we can do that.
Mike Lee
Vote, Think, Debt
If a product's future is unlikely to be remarkable - if you can't imagine a future in which people are once again fascinated by your product - it's time to realize that the game has changed. Instead of investing in a dying product, take profits and reinvest them in building something new.
Seth Godin
Time, Game, People
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
Children, Stand, Nation
Our future is our sense of common destiny.
Ahmet Davutoglu
Destiny, Sense, Common
Web 2.0 ideas have a chirpy, cheerful rhetoric to them, but I think they consistently express a profound pessimism about humans, human nature and the human future.
Jaron Lanier
Nature, Ideas, Human Nature
Western Christians have imagined that, at the end of the day, God is going to throw the present space-time universe into a trashcan and we'll be sitting on clouds playing harps. The ultimate future that we're promised is much more interesting than that. It's new heavens and a new Earth with new bodies to live in.
N. T. Wright
Day, God, Universe
Once we agree on the future, the present will be much easier. A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there. We have first to decide where we want to go, where we want to sail.
Ami Ayalon
Wind, Earth, Want
I have to think about the future because, not that I'm bored with it now, but I can't live now, it's not my place to live now. I've got to live ahead of myself.
Ross Lovegrove
Myself, Live, Think
Something has to change in the world. Without change, young people will have no future.
Donatella Versace
Change, World, People
Becoming an adult means leaving the world of your parents and starting to make your way toward the future that you will share with your peers.
Alison Gopnik
Parents, World, Leaving
The most basic task of any museum must be the protection of works of cultural significance entrusted to its care for the edification and pleasure of future generations.
Martin Filler
Care, Museum, Pleasure
I think Bloomberg's broad vision of the environment in New York City is something I agree with. I broadly stand with his vision for how to deal with climate change and prepare for future weather events.
Bill de Blasio
Change, Vision, Weather
The future is today.
William Osler
Today
This is my future and I will take personal responsibility for making sure all competition requirements are met.
Kim Collins
Responsibility, Personal
So while I was in college I did a little study on the freight industry, the air freight industry. And I looked at this company called Flying Tiger. And I actually put a thousand dollars in it and I remember I thought this air cargo was going to be a thing of the future.
Peter Lynch
College, Company, Remember
Conventional agriculture has never succeeded in feeding the world, and it's never produced anything good to eat. For the future, we need to look toward alternatives.
Dan Barber
Good, World, Agriculture
Predictions are preposterous.
Jackie Mason
Predictions
I'm not sure what the future holds but I do know that I'm going to be positive and not wake up feeling desperate. As my dad said 'Nic, it is what it is, it's not what it should have been, not what it could have been, it is what it is.'
Nicole Kidman
Positive, Wake Up, Know
We can continue to try and clean up the gutters all over the world and spend all of our resources looking at just the dirty spots and trying to make them clean. Or we can lift our eyes up and look into the skies and move forward in an evolutionary way.
Buzz Aldrin
Eyes, World, Looking
If you don't focus on the future generation, it means you are destroying your country.
Malala Yousafzai
Focus, Generation, You
I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate.
Arthur Wing Pinero
Past, Believe, I Believe
If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.
Madeleine Albright
America, Stand, See
We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.
Tony Robbins
Rich, Think, Matter
The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present.
Ellen Key
Light, Present, Wait
The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Mind, Miserable, Anxious
The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future.
Joel A. Barker
Past, Successful, Will
The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future.
Norman O. Brown
Capitalism, Enjoyment
Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.
Antoine Rivarol
Life, Man, Past
All along the untrodden paths of the future, I can see the footprints of an unseen hand.
Boyle Roche
I Can, Paths, See
You will see - in the future, I will live by my watercolors.
Winslow Homer
Live, You, See
Arnold has succeeded at every level, and I believe he is the only person that can unite the people of this state and lead California from its current dysfunctional condition to the bright future that all residents long for.
Mary Bono
Believe, People, Long
We believe that an Iraqi founding national assembly, freely elected, must decide the future of Iraq.
Jalal Talabani
Believe, Decide, Must
But I'm not imaginative. I couldn't look into the future, like Star Wars or Robots or anything like that.
Harry Dean Stanton
Robots, Look, Anything
I did not know what my future was going to hold.
Rebecca Loos
Know, Going, Hold
Why do people so love to wander? I think the civilized parts of the World will suffice for me in the future.
Mary Cassatt
Love, World, Me
Some people would say my paintings show a future world and maybe they do, but I paint from reality. I put several things and ideas together, and perhaps, when I have finished, it could show the future.
H. R. Giger
Together, Reality, World
We are quite open, however, to looking at acquisitions and there are opportunities that we periodically consider. and I think that may be something we do in the future, but I must say that there is no commitment to that at the present time in any form or size.
David Milne
Time, Commitment
So I try not to look too far into the future because I think that everything happens and will happen for a reason.
Carrot Top
Think, Look, Try
Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future.
Robert Smithson
Past, Forget, Remember
You will attract the younger generation and they might well prove tougher than the older generation. What we are trying to do is to look at the future and see what we can do to bring some stability back to people's lives.
Ian Botham
Generation, People, You
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
Great, Opportunities, Know
Whatever help we may want from the international community now or in the future, we want to make sure that this help is tailored to help our people to help themselves.
Aung San Suu Kyi
Community, People, Help
I found, when I left, that there were others who felt the same way. We'd meet, they'd come and seek me out, we'd talk about the future. And I found that their depression and pessimism was every bit as acute as mine.
Wole Soyinka
Depression, Me, Way
Every man is his own ancestor, and every man is his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past.
Frederick Henry Hedge
Man, Past, Heir
The future belongs to crowds.
Don DeLillo
Crowds, Belongs
I have great expectations for the future, because the past was highly overrated.
Sylvester Stallone
Great, Past, Expectations
Man can and must prevent the tragedy of famine in the future instead of merely trying with pious regret to salvage the human wreckage of the famine, as he has so often done in the past.
Norman Borlaug
Man, Past, Tragedy
I think in order to move forward into the future, you need to know where you've been.
Charles Williams
Know, Think, You
We need not be afraid of the future, for the future will be in our own hands.
Thomas Dewey
Hands, Need, Will
The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given by heredity.
G. Stanley Hall
Man, Past, Impossible
We have no right to assume that any physical laws exist, or if they have existed up until now, that they will continue to exist in a similar manner in the future.
Max Planck
Right, Assume, Laws
Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.
Sophocles
Past, Lost, Young
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
Life, Direction, Live
To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis, which is to say, a nothingness. Here and now is what we must contend with.
Angela Carter
Say, Here, Hopes
The artist is an educator of artists of the future who are able to understand and in the process of understanding perform unexpected - the best - evolutions.
Saul Steinberg
Best, Artist, Understanding
To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense.
Ambrose Bierce
Foundation, Offense
In the future, when we get serious about executing things correctly, this thing will be very easy to do. If we find out that this technique does not work, I don't intend to step on dead bodies to achieve something because I don't have that kind of ambition. My ambition is to help people.
Panayiotis Zavos
Work, Ambition, Help
When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture.
Douglas Coupland
Culture, Find, California
We're trying to set up a movie for me in the near future. It's going to be similar to the story of how I got discovered. Kinda like my own version of '8 Mile.'
Justin Bieber
Me, Trying, Story
We are being tough in saying it is a duty on the unemployed in future not only to be available for work - and not to shirk work - but also to get the skills for work. That is a new duty we are introducing.
Gordon Brown
Work, Skills, Saying
The world is likely to view any temporary extension of the income tax cuts for the top two percent as a prelude to a long-term or permanent extension, and that would hurt economic recovery as well by undermining confidence that we're prepared to make a commitment today to bring down our future deficits.
Timothy Geithner
Confidence, Today, World
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
Wind, Know, Think
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
I Am, Past, Proud
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
Time, Thinking, Past
The action films I will make in the future will be more believable and character-based. I am now on my second cycle of fame, and I want to make films that smell real and are truthful.
Jean-Claude Van Damme
I Am, Action, Want
I don't know anything more piggish - I don't know anything more un-American than saying, 'Oh, I'm worried about my own little handout or my own little program or my own little economy and we'll kick this can down the road and let some future generation deal with it.'
Todd Rokita
Road, Generation, Know
One of the things I like about the computer that I use is that I can write a program on it or I can download a program on to it and run it. That's kind of important to me, and that's also kind of important to the whole future of the internet... obviously a closed platform is a serious brake on innovation.
Tim Berners-Lee
Innovation, Internet, Me
All cities do face similar, significant trends in the future... most importantly global warming and climate change.
Cate Blanchett
Change, Global Warming
You can't let your past hold your future hostage.
LL Cool J
Past, You, Hold
My philosophy is I'm raising future adults, not children.
Usher
Children, Philosophy