Top 1200 Future Shock Quotes & Sayings - Page 10

In the wake of the events of 11 September 2001, it now seems clear that the shock of the attacks was exploited in America.

The shock, the power of an ordinary life. It is a thing you could not invent with banks of computers in a dust-free room.

Do not look back, No one knows how the world ever began. Do not fear the future, Nothing lasts forever. If you dwell on the past or future, You will miss the moment.

I was very young when I made my debut. I was only 16 and it was a bit of a shock that I was involved, but there were a lot of injuries.

When we think we have been hurt by someone in the past, we build up defenses to protect ourselves from being hurt in the future. So the fearful past causes a fearful future and the past and future become one. We cannot love when we feel fear.... When we release the fearful past and forgive everyone, we will experience total love and oneness with all.

Without a huge shock, the sleepy-head, ignorant Japanese will never wake up.

The smallest bird cannot light upon the greatest tree without sending a shock to its most distant fiber.

The generally accepted theory is that financial markets tend towards equilibrium, and...discount the future correctly. I operate using a different theory, according to which financial markets cannot possibly discount the future correctly because the do not merely discount the future; they help to shape it.

Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are moving into transition in our lives.

I meet blind and partially-sighted young readers all the time, and it's a shock that so few books are available to them.

When I first went on tour with PJ in '98, I was still in shock having gone through the Soundgarden break up.

To be a science fiction writer you must be interested in the future and you must feel that the future will be different and hopefully better than the present. Although I know that most - that many science fiction writings have been anti-utopias. And the reason for that is that it's much easier and more exciting to write about a really nasty future than a - placid, peaceful one.

University was a shock to the system. At times, I really thought I couldn't do it. It's the same with 'Strictly.' I'm completely out of my comfort zone.

I am told that there is a proverbial phrase among the Inuit: 'A long time ago, in the future.' Let the children see our history, and maybe it will help to shape the future.

I feel like I need to improve in every area. That might shock people, but I'm never satisfied with my game.

Life is the future, not the past. The past can teach us, through experience, how to accomplish things in the future, comfort us with cherished memories, and provide the foundation of what has already been accomplished. But only the future holds life. To live in the past is to embrace what is dead. To live life to its fullest, each day must be created anew.

Certain subjects may no longer be taboo in cinema. But there are ways to treat them that still create shock.

There is humor in the specter of the worst disaster in our nation's history. All I have to do is sweep away the debris of shock to find it.

UNICEF is helping mothers realize their dreams for the future - a future in which the basic needs for a child's survival: food, clean water and simple health care - are guaranteed.

... The future is very markedly in your hands, its value and its moral standing in the world and among ourselves. If you will take the power you have and use it, I have no fear of the outcome of the future.

Nothing is more hackneyed than the liberal dogma that shock value confers automatic importance on an artwork.

I teach you that there is no other aim than to live with such totality that each moment becomes a celebration. The very idea of "aim" brings future into the mind, because any aim, any end, any goal, needs future. All your goals deprive you of your present, which is the only reality you have. The future is only your imagination, and the past is just footprints left in the sands of your memory. Neither is the past real anymore, nor is the future real yet. This moment is the only reality.

We can just as easily have an economy that is based on healing the future instead of stealing it. We can either create assets for the future or take the assets of the future. One is called restoration and the other exploitation. And whenever we exploit the earth we exploit people and cause untold suffering. Working for the earth is not a way to get rich, it is a way to be rich.

It's always a shock to the people who run studios when a movie that is for women is a hit. They have an infinite capacity to be shocked.

I suspect people would be in for a real shock if they knew the depths of his [Obama's] historical ignorance.

There is only one kind of shock worse than the totally unexpected: the expected for which one has refused to prepare.

With every adversity comes a blessing because a shock acts as a reminder to oneself that we must not get stale in routine.

If you live day by day and do the best you can, then you'll have a great future. If you worry about the future, and you don't live the best day, you're not going to have a future.

Let the workers organize. Let the toilers assemble. Let their crystallized voice proclaim their injustices and demand their privileges. Let all thoughtful citizens sustain them, for the future of Labor is the future of America.

We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of bone. But how far away that future may be, there is no knowing.

Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency. Hope should shove you out the door, because it will take everything you have to steer the future away from endless war, from the annihilation of the earth's treasures and the grinding down of the poor and marginal. To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.

Imagine if you succeeded in making the world perfect for your children what a shock the rest of life would be for them.

What a thrill, what a shock, to be alive on a morning in June, prosperous, almost scandalously privileged, with a simple errand to run.

The ring, the call, the surprise, the shock that you have out-of-doors - be always looking for the unexpected in nature, do not settle to a formula.

I fail to see the issue that will shock the people of this great country of ours into some decisive action.

I've always been absolutely appalling about the future, but I sort of think that was my childhood religion. We were future deniers. You did your best in the present, which was all around you.

Take too much pleasure in good things, you'll feel The shock of adverse fortune makes you reel.

I was having a lot of people ask me to update 'The Shock Doctrine' and add a chapter about Trump.

I'm in my fifties now. That's still a shock when I say it out loud, because I don't feel any different to when I was in my thirties.

With my classical training and coming from a metal band, producers didn't know what to expect. I like to shock people, though.

So, I guess the answer to your question is very few people can bring off a novel of the future because it's just so damn hard to make it look like the future.

Therefore, I think that in the celebration of the 50 years of the present reign, there must be research on the changes that the country has undergone, and in the future, it could be used as a lesson for our future actions.

Our future can't be separated from the fact that we are all going to be increasingly compacted into urban areas, though we're different in race and culture and religion. And what we make of that will determine the American future.

To look at ourselves from afar, to make the subjective suddenly objective: this gives us a psychic shock.

We moved to Gambia from Sweden when I was six years old because my dad was from there. It was definitely a culture shock.

Rhino-mounted Bantu shock troops could have overthrown the Roman Empire. It never happened.

I'm not easily offended. I have a pretty high tolerance for raunchiness or shock value, so I'm the wrong person to use as a gauge.

Oh, what a shock. My career must be slipping. This is the first time I've been available to pick up an award.

The criticism that has most consistently bothered me is the allegation that I'm a schlockmeister whose only objective is to shock people.

Together, we'll build a far better future for America -- a future of growth, opportunity, and security, anchored by the values of a people who are confident, compassionate, and whose heart is good.

We human beings have enormous difficulty in focusing on the present; we always thinking about what we did, about how we could have done it better.... or else we think about the future, about what we're going to do.... But at this precise moment, you also realize that you can change your future by bringing the past into the present. Past and future only exist in our mind. The present moment, though, is outside of time, it's Eternity.... It isn't what you did in the past the will affect the present. It's what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.

It was a shock for me to see that there are obviously more people in Germany with fascist opinions than I thought there would be.

I think Naomi Klein was very astute with her book 'Shock Doctrine.' We make money on disaster.

I like to create a shock moment. I take what not everybody wants and really get people to believe that's me.

We're pursuing a strategic partnership with Afghanistan on the case of the United States and Afghanistan where we're going to push toward a future. It is the future that the Afghans desire with the United States. It is a future that the Afghans desire with the international community and we desire that as well.

I think smartphones need to send an electrical shock to a user when they get their your/you're mixed up.

Dystopian novels help people process their fears about what the future might look like; further, they usually show that there is always hope, even in the bleakest future.

If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o'-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death.

The world of football has changed. 'We're going to start a freshman quarterback!' 'Oooh really?!' That was taboo. It's not a shock anymore.

One grows up thinking you will naturally be able to have children, and when it doesn't happen, it's a shock. But I just feel that it wasn't meant to be.