A Quote by Kenneth E. Boulding

The future is bound to surprise us, but we don't have to be dumbfounded.

Kenneth E. Boulding

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Bound Future Surprise Us

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Kenneth E. Boulding
American - Economist
January 18, 1910 - March 18, 1993

If we emit massive quantities of untested chemicals into the environment, some of them are bound to end up in places that surprise us, doing things that endanger us.

Donella Meadows

Let us turn our thoughts today to Martin Luther King and recognize that there are ties between us, all men and women living on the Earth. Ties of hope and love, sister and brotherhood, that we are bound together in our desire to see the world become a place in which our children can grow free and strong. We are bound together by the task that stands before us and the road that lies ahead. We are bound and we are bound.

James Taylor

Perhaps the safest prediction we can make about the future is that it will surprise us.

George Leonard

Each death and departure comes to us as a surprise, a sorrow never anticipated. Life is a long series of farewells; only the circumstances should surprise us.

Jessamyn West

The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Nothing takes God by surprise. He knows the future and can therefore guide us through its trackless ways.

W. T. Purkiser

I've never had a surprise birthday party. I've had every other type of surprise. I've had surprise beatings, surprise drug tests, surprise daughter I think.

Dave Attell

The joy of living, its beauty, is all bound up in the fact that life can surprise you.

Frank Herbert

The problem with the future is that it is different, if you are unable to think differently, the future will always arrive as a surprise.

Gary Hamel

With us air people, the future of our nation is indissolubly bound up in the development of air power.

Billy Mitchell

The Framers were no more interested in binding future Americans to a set of divinely inspired commandments than any of us would wish to be bound by them.

Dahlia Lithwick

You might ask yourself why you want to surprise your readers in the first place. A surprise ending is sort of like a surprise party. Probably some people, somewhere, enjoy having friends and trusted colleagues lunge at them in the sudden blinding light of their own living room, but I don't think most of us do.

Jincy Willett

Will not perhaps the temporal power of Islam return and with it the menace of an armed Mohammedan world, which will shake off the domination of Europeans - still nominally Christian - and reappear as the prime enemy of our civilization? The future always comes as a surprise, but political wisdom consists in attempting at least some partial judgment of what that surprise may be. And for my part I cannot but believe that a main unexpected thing of the future is the return of Islam.

Hilaire Belloc

And as I was sort of doodling, I was thinking, surprise and fear - probably fairly similar so let's just lose surprise. And that left us with five.

Pete Docter

Humor has to surprise us; otherwise, it isn't funny. It's a death knell for a writer to be labeled a humorist because then it's not a surprise anymore.