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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