Not even the brightest future can make up for the fact that no roads lead back to what came before - to the innocence of childhood or the first time we fell in love.

I have not made any plans for the future and my wife would kill me if I announced anything before that.

To the citizens of Israel I say: we have passed difficult years faced the most painful experiences and overcame them. The future lies before us. We are required to take difficult and controversial steps but we must not miss the opportunity to try to achieve what we have wished for for so many years: security tranquillity and peace.

I'm not a prophet I can only use historical reality to come to a view of the future and my view is that Africa will return to being African and not European. The advent of colonialism was foreign to the country itself but it will return to what it was before the Europeans arrived.

Kids feel so strongly about what's going on today and what's happening to the world and that's very inspiring. I feel more hopeful than ever before about the future.

Like many other touchstones of twenty-first-century pop culture 'The Sopranos' was hatched in the late Nineties predicting a future that never arrived. It was designed for a decade that would be just like the Nineties except more so in an America that enjoyed seeing itself as smarter and braver and freer than ever before.

A speculator is a man who observes the future and acts before it occurs.

I feel like I write songs for the future or something. Not in an arrogant way but I feel like maybe my songs were like before their time or something.

Seek not to know what must not be reveal for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more if future fortunes were known before!

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.