I am not interested in the past, except as the road to the future.
It's not good enough to give it tender, loving care, to supply it with breakfast foods, to buy it expensive educations. Those things don't mean anything unless this generation has a future. And we're not sure that it does.
I am growing old, and my future, so to speak, is already behind me.
The future has a way of arriving unannounced.
Democrats believe, plausibly, that middle-class entitlements are instantly addictive and, because there is no known detoxification, that class, when facing future choices between trimming entitlements or increasing taxes, will choose the latter.
Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.
Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
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.
I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States.
If younger people see older people who haven't planned ahead and have to rely on charity, the young will be more likely to provide for the future. Today when someone plans poorly, the only consequence people see is a demand for more government.
As a small country, both in size and population, our future hinges on the quality of our people.
The level of our educational development is high and serves as a strong basis for our future progress.
The hacker community may be small, but it possesses the skills that are driving the global economies of the future.
I'm sure that there are reasonable people that had some reasonable projections about the future of New Orleans, but none of those could include not trying to rebuild the city and make it better than it was before.
The form of my poem rises out of a past that so overwhelms the present with its worth and vision that I'm at a loss to explain my delusion that there exist any real links between that past and a future worthy of it.
People are optimistic about the future.
I imagine a future aircraft, which will take off vertically, fly as usual, and land vertically. This flying machine should have no moving parts. This idea came from the huge power of cyclones.
We have a close, unshakable bond between the United States and Israel, and between the American and Israeli people. We share common values and a commitment to a democratic future for the world, and we are both committed to a two-state solution. But t...
My wish for the new millennium is for all children... to grow up wiser, and stronger and more prosperous for the future than ever before.
I have a lot of reason to believe, as we saw in the 2012 election, most Americans don't agree with the extremists on any side of an issue, but there needs to continue to be an effort to find common ground, or even take it to higher ground on behalf o...
Tonight, I concurred with President Bush when he stated that the decisions on future involvement of U.S. troops in Iraq should be left to the Pentagon and not politicians in Washington.
