Jeff Flake Quotes

It's a lot easier, she realized, to be on the verge of something than to actually be it. This would still take time.

This isn't all going to be done in one day, either.

Change won't happen overnight.

We won't know for a few years.

I don't know whether we will find ourselves in the cross hairs, pulled by the short hairs, or just trying to find the next inane hairstyle. But change is coming; it is inevitable. It is as steady and reliable as a ticking clock.

Things couldn't stay the same forever.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.

Who knows what happens tomorrow? We'll find it tomorrow.

The universe can take quite a while to deliver.

Change is a continuous process. You cannot assess it with the static yardstick of a limited time frame. When a seed is sown into the ground, you cannot immediately see the plant. You have to be patient. With time, it grows into a large tree. And then the flowers bloom, and only then can the fruits be plucked.

The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be.

It's not worth getting too excited about thinking about the larger picture. The larger picture doesn't come into focus for an awfully long time.

When I came to America in the '60s, it was the place to be. I wonder if I'd come here today.

We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time.

This is an exciting time. A new chapter in our history.

Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the - to the back!

A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.

The past is but the past of a beginning.

The long run may be too long.

There’s a big difference between history and the future.

Wait and see.

The future lies ahead.

Okay, we've won. What do we do now?

It takes a long time to bring about change.