Though I was excited about the Sojourner Truth play it was not reassuring to think that my entire future might depend on the success of that one show.

When you're poor you know nothing about the future you know nothing about the world nothing that goes on outside 300 yards around you.

Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books.

There is no word for feeling nostalgic about the future but that's what a parent's tears often are a nostalgia for something that has not yet occurred. They are the pain of hope the helplessness of hope and finally the surrender to hope.

I said tonight I wanted to talk to you about love. Look into your hearts. This is our country. This is our future. These are our children and grandchildren. You can trust Mitt.

Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.

That's one of the most exciting things about Michigan's future. We need to we must capitalize on our alternative-energy vehicles that we can produce right here.

A ring means a commitment. But more than that it means that you've talked about your shared future and have decided together on a shared vision of it.

If the euro zone doesn't come up with a comprehensive vision of its own future you'll have a whole range of nationalist xenophobic and extreme movements increasing across the European Union. And frankly questions about the British debate on EU membership will just be a small sideshow compared to the rise of political populism.

The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes.

I've been asked to do a retrospective since I was about 28 and I always thought that was a bit odd. It's great to look forward as an artist because in the future the possibilities are infinite you look back and it's all fixed so it's a scary thing.

I came to live in Shepperton in 1960. I thought: the future isn't in the metropolitan areas of London. I want to go out to the new suburbs near the film studios. This was the England I wanted to write about because this was the new world that was emerging.

The people in charge globally are maniacs. They are maniacs and unless we do something about it these people are going to deprive us of a future.

The most important thing about global warming is this. Whether humans are responsible for the bulk of climate change is going to be left to the scientists but it's all of our responsibility to leave this planet in better shape for the future generations than we found it.

It's about time we make the well-being of our young people more important than ideology and politics. As a country we benefit from investing in their future by investing in teen pregnancy prevention.

Think about it: Reducing crime and poverty and ensuring that we have an educated stable work force has a direct effect on you and me and the future of our country.

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.

We are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We are a people in search of a national community.

No one is going to try to fill my mother's shoes what she did was fantastic. It's about making your own future and your own destiny and Kate will do a very good job of that.

The debt-ceiling vote isn't about what will be done in the future it is about the integrity of America's commitment to support the bonds we issue. Elected officials have an obligation to maintain that integrity regardless of whether they voted for the programs that required the borrowing in the first place.

What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?

While everyone else is thinking about economics and politics executive salaries and the future of the euro do the opposite even if it's hard. Invest in the spirit.

If other people want to talk about my future I can't control that.

I don't have that much forward planning about what I want to do next or in the future.