937 private quotes tagged future

“I always felt like my future was at stake every time I stepped on stage and that was kind of hair-raising. At some point I just went, don't be frightened, you can't do anything wrong, it's your show.” — Rickie Lee Jones

0 favs

“Our challenge for the future is that we realize we are very much a part of the earth's ecosystem, and we must learn to respect and live according to the basic biological laws of nature.” — Jim Fowler

0 favs

“You know, we'd just had a birthday, he was... you know, he still had a future out of him, and all I can is he was just one of the most beautiful people in the world... a very gifted man, and it's a loss to the world, not just for us.” — Robin Gibb

0 favs

“Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.” — Andre Breton

0 favs

“Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion.” — Al Goldstein

0 favs

“As a child our dreams got scattered all about and all our future prospects got scattered to so many places, and we spend our lives trying to find the little pieces that make up our lives and make up the dreams that we had as a child that got blown away in the windstorm.” — Terrence Howard

0 favs

“The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.” — Lord Acton

0 favs

“The failure of national economic policy is costing us more than jobs it has begun to weaken that uniquely American spirit of risk-taking, large ambition, and optimism about the future. We must rally them now to bold departures that rebuild our national morale as well as our material prosperity.” — Mitch Daniels

0 favs

“We must not allow the liberals to move us away from the conservative values of the American past which sustain our present and shall secure our future. As for me and my family, we will serve God, we will serve this constitutional republic, we will serve America.” — Allen West

0 favs

“I want to do very useful buildings and I would like to find a method of producing these buildings through our technology because I think that this is the only way that we will gain wonderful environment easily in the future.” — Minoru Yamasaki

0 favs

“I'm just saying that at least for the foreseeable future there won't be any more touring.” — Glenn Danzig

0 favs

“Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.” — James Dobson

0 favs

“Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.” — Nancy Pelosi

0 favs

“Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.” — Horace

0 favs

“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

0 favs

“The euro is our common fate, and Europe is our common future.” — Angela Merkel

0 favs

“I have made a film about jazz that tries to look through jazz to see what it tells us about who we are as a people. I think that jazz is a spectacularly accurate model of democracy and a kind of look into our redemptive future possibilities.” — Ken Burns

0 favs

“If the right people do the right things, we can walk, we can have a future. But if people don't put time into it to make it run in a right way, I don't think your team will work.” — Tim Hardaway

0 favs

“At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.” — Maurice Maeterlinck

0 favs

“Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future.” — Marilyn Ferguson

0 favs

“The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can tell you after attending their high school reunion. But you'd never know it by talking to kids or listening to the messages they get from the culture and even from their schools.” — Anna Quindlen

0 favs

“The White House isn't the place to learn how to deal with international crisis, the balance of power, war and peace, and the economic future of the next generation.” — Joe Biden

0 favs

“For all my years in public life, I have believed that America must sail toward the shores of liberty and justice for all. There is no end to that journey, only the next great voyage. We know the future will outlast all of us, but I believe that all of us will live on in the future we make.” — Edward Kennedy

0 favs

“As an American I wanted to explore... why are we the only first world country that still has capital punishment? Is it because we're too afraid to really examine the system, or is it because we really truly believe that this is the best way to deter future crime?” — Jodi Picoult

0 favs

“Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God's Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen.” — Queen Elizabeth II

0 favs