The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
If I advocate cautious optimism it is not because I do not have faith in the future but because I do not want to encourage blind faith.
I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past.
Science fiction sometimes is fun because it reaches so far in the future.
But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion.
Renewable energy also creates more jobs than other sources of energy - most of these will be created in the struggling manufacturing sector, which will pioneer the new energy future by investment that allows manufacturers to retool and adopt new technologies and methods.
As founder and co-chair of the upper Mississippi River Congressional task force, I have long sought to preserve the river's health and historical multiple uses, including as a natural waterway and a home to wildlife, for the benefit of future generations of Americans.
We must continually work to obtain and preserve the right to vote and future votes of babies in the womb, their parents, the sick, the elderly, the poor, all Americans.
I am here before you tonight to dedicate this administration to bringing a new renaissance of neighborhood life and community spirit, a renewal of confidence in the future of our city and a revival of opportunity for all Chicago.
In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn.
If you ask me what I worry about every morning when I wake up, it's that I don't understand future mainstream Internet users' habits.
Only when the oil and gas industry has taken full account of, and responsibility for, the impacts of exploring for and extracting fossil fuels can we engage in a serious and worthy evaluation of whether fracking can indeed provide a bridge to a sustainable energy future.
We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
The future will use and dispose of the memories of people that we knew as history sees fit.
Evolutionary cosmology formulates theories in which a universe is capable of giving rise to and generating future universes out of itself, within black holes or whatever.
The idea is to work and to experiment. Some things will be creatively successful, some things will succeed at the box office, and some things will only - which is the biggest only - teach you things that see the future. And they're probably as valuable as any of your successes.
Rodgers and Hammerstein didn't mean anything to me. I just wanted to have a hit, I just wanted to be like those people on the radio. It was all of a case of the present tense with no projecting into the future, particularly.
The Fed needs an approach that consolidates the gains of the Greenspan years and ensures that those successful policies will continue - even if future Fed chairmen are less skillful or less committed to price stability than Mr. Greenspan has been.
The future of our nation depends on our ability to produce food and fiber to sustain the world.
That is now my mission: to provide a European vision of growth, employment, prosperity - in one word, our future.
There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
Now North Korea certainly is located in a different place geographically, but I think it faces the same type of strategic decision. Does it want a different future for its people?
The German future lies in the hands of our Fuehrer.
We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror.
One of India's biggest advantages is our young demographic and that we have a youthful population that is indeed our future.
I think the future stopped looking American when you think back to Blade Runner and Neuromancer, when it started to look more Japanese.
We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there.
You have to be able to risk your identity for a bigger future than the present you are living.
Modern as the style of Pascal's writing is, his thought is deeply impregnated with the spirit of the Middle Ages. He belonged, almost equally, to the future and to the past.
'Noah' is about a man whose mission is to obliterate Earth's past and godfather its future. Replacing the word 'God' with 'Creator' and taking other scriptural liberties, the movie risks confusing those who don't take the Bible literally and alienating those who do.
The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.
I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate.
Everything that ever happened is still happening. Past, present and future keep happening in the eternity which is Here and Now.
The future is not Big Government. Self-serving politicians. Powerful bureaucrats. This has been tried, tested throughout history. The result has always been disaster. President Obama, your agenda is not new. It's not change, and it's not hope.
It's so cheap to store all data. It's cheaper to keep it than to delete it. And that means people will change their behavior because they know anything they say online can be used against them in the future.
