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.
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.
When you realize the value of all life you dwell less on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future.
Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.
After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world hangs.
The future like everything else is not what it used to be.
A coldly rationalist individualist can deny that he has any obligation to make sacrifices for the future.
Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.
We must depend upon the Boy Scout Movement to produce the MEN of the future.
If I can create some space that people haven't experienced before and if it stays with them or gives them a dream for the future that's the kind of structure I seek to create.
While negativity is politically useful it is also demoralizing unless it is accompanied - and to some extent overshadowed - by elevated and inspiring ideas about the American future.
The attack on ObamaCare was that Congress does not have the power under the Commerce Clause to force a private citizen into a private contractual relationship. If such a thing is permitted to stand the anti-ObamaCare forces argue there will be no limit to Congress's power in the future.
There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future.
Frontiersmen good and bad gunmen as well as inspired prophets of the future have been my camp companions. Thus I know the country of which I am about to write as few men now living have known it.
If you want a future of shared prosperity where the middle class is growing and poverty is declining where the American Dream is alive and well and where the United States remains the leading force for peace and prosperity in a highly competitive world you should vote for Barack Obama.
President Obama has offered a plan with 4 trillion dollars in debt reduction over a decade with two and a half dollars of spending reductions for every one dollar of revenue increases and tight controls on future spending. It's the kind of balanced approach proposed by the bipartisan Simpson-Bowles commission.
I think I'm going to be making country records for as long as I can see into the future. It's much more down-home and real.