Our politics are our deepest form of expression: they mirror our past experiences and reflect our dreams and aspirations for the future.
When you realize the value of all life, you dwell less on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future.
The politics of partisanship and the resulting inaction and excuses have paralyzed decision-making, primarily at the federal level, and the big issues of the day are not being addressed, leaving our future in jeopardy.
To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.
Young people can get very discouraged and get hooked on drugs or on alcohol because of problems they perceive as insurmountable. It is important that they realize a mistake need not ruin their future, but they must also know that not everything in life is a bed of roses.
As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
The global economic outlook remains fragile and uncertain. Global economic imbalances persist and we must address them or risk future instability.
The end of the trial and the 'not guilty' verdicts on all counts, clearing Michael of all charges, mean that he can now concentrate on the future and his art.
Most of the media... is positioning the merger with Compaq and the recent actions by Walter Hewlett and David Packard as a fight between the past and the future.
I don't think we're going to see the price of oil going down in the near future, that's the reality.
We must reinvent a future free of blinders so that we can choose from real options.
All cities do face similar, significant trends in the future... most importantly global warming and climate change.
It is hard to say what the future holds, but this is probable - it won't be just like the past.
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 social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.
The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future?
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.
Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.
I'm pro-life. I'll do all I can to see every baby is created with a future and potential. The legislature should do all it can to protect human life.
I am neither a sociologist nor a politician. All I can do is imagine for myself what the future will be like.
I look forward to a time, in the not so distant future, when we no longer look forward to 'firsts' as milestones women have yet to achieve, but we look back on them as historic events that continue to teach and inspire.
People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly clearly. Periodic famines are due to too many people living on land that can't sustain them.
The Fuhrer alone is the present and future German reality and its law. Learn to know ever more deeply: from now on every single thing demands decision, and every action responsibility.
We would fight not for the political future of a distant city, rather for principles whose destruction would ruin the possibility of peace and security for the peoples of the earth.
More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.
I honestly don't know, but if America continues to refuse to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, I see a bleak future not only for American society, but for the world as a whole. This is a global problem that is not going away, and the United States is an obstacle to solving it.
Inspiring scenes of people taking the future of their countries into their own hands will ignite greater demands for good governance and political reform elsewhere in the world, including in Asia and in Africa.
The EU is not a country and it's not going to become a country, in my view, now or ever in the future. It is a group of countries working together.
America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.
And that's how we build the economy of the future. An economy with more jobs and less debt, we root it in fairness. We grow it with opportunity. And we build it together.
Adolescence represents an inner emotional upheaval, a struggle between the eternal human wish to cling to the past and the equally powerful wish to get on with the future.
I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man is the god of himself and that his future can only be triumphant?
We're not planning for the future. If we continue to spend ourselves into oblivion, we are going to destroy this nation.
Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
As a kid, I'd go into the bathroom when I was having a tantrum. I'd be in the bathroom crying, studying myself in the mirror. I was preparing for future roles.
It is the business of the future to be dangerous and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.
The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue.
I'd like to think that the actions we take today will allow others in the future to discover the wonders of landscapes we helped protect but never had the chance to enjoy ourselves.