Top 1200 Future Shock Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

The Present is the womb of the future. A greater future happiness can be had only by investing in the present correctly. Look after the present and the future will look after itself.

The shock of unemployment becomes a pathology in its own right.

Humility, after the first shock, is cheerful virtue.

It's very hard for students not to be in debt unless they've got big scholarships or rich parents. And it's called investing in your future, but like any investment it's risky because your future is an unknown quantity. However, if you don't invest in your future, you may be flipping hamburgers for the rest of your life. So it's a real dilemma.

I thought the 60s in London was normal, so when it stopped it was a shock.

The dark clouds hanging over our government can be lifted and replaced with a bright future. But, it all depends on whether we let the corrupt media decide our future, or whether we let the American people decide our future.

We walk into the future in God-glorifying confidence, not because the future is known to us but because it is known to God. And that's all we need to know. Worry about the future is not simply a character tic, it is the sin of unbelief, an indication that our hearts are not resting in the promises of God.

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

My gayness became quietly accepted and, shock of all shocks, life went on.

Only artists without talent try to shock people.

That's all I want - to shock the world. The only way to do it is to do something hard.

Artists are meant to be madmen, to disturb and shock us.

It's cool to be different and just be who you are and shock people in a good way.

I go to mass every Sunday, which is a shock to everybody.

You don't need shock value things to make a movie successful.

The physical shock took away the pain of being.

His letter was like the shock produced by a cold bath.

If I were to write the story of my life, I would shock the world.

When the shock wears off, you always hope there's understanding underneath.

I don't mind giving everyone a shock - including myself.

Psychoanalysts are fond of pointing out that the past is alive in the present. But the future is alive in the present too. The future is not some place we’re going to, but an idea in our mind now. It is something we’re creating, that in turn creates us. The future is a fantasy that shapes our present.

Revival brings back a holy shock to apathy and carelessness.

Yes, I'm a homosexual and I like to shock people with glamour.

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.

Laughter is the shock absorber that eases the blows of life.

In a world without future, each parting of friends is a death. In a world without future, each loneliness is final. In a world without future, each laugh is the last laugh. In a world without future, beyond the present lies nothingness, and people cling to the present as if hanging from a cliff.

They were not friends. They didn't know each other. It struck Tom like a horrible truth, true for all time, true for the people he had known in the past and for those he would know in the future: each had stood and would stand before him, and he would know time and time again that he would never know them, and the worst was that there would always be the illusion, for a time, that he did know them, and that he and they were completely in harmony and alike. For an instant the wordless shock of his realization seemed more than he could bear.

Finding out that I was gay when I was older was a shock and a disappointment.

The rain is sharp today, as you shock me sane.

Truth like a torch, the more 'tis shock, it shines.

When I moved to Mumbai for college, it was bit of a culture shock.

I want to shock the world, and I'm going to do that through boxing.

I gave birth aged 45, which was a bit of a shock.

I looked at my shoulder and saw a javelin stuck in it. I was in shock.

One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience.

Norman Bates heard the noise and a shock went through him.

Psychologists and economists love to talk about the notion of two selves: present self and future self. It's a nice way to explain the tendency to have one preference about the future, but a very different preference when the future becomes the present.

I didn't know I was going to live for 50 years. It has come as a shock.

If Sudan starts to crumble, the shock waves will spread.

Once artists are expected to shock, it's that much harder for them to do so.

With 3D, all you're doing is trying to shock the audience; there's no value to the storytelling.

When I win, I send shock waves through the boxing world.

I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.

I'm talking about when you're nearer the end of your life than the beginning. Now what do you think you think about then? The future? In the future I'm going to do this? Become that? What future? No. What you think is, 'How will I be regarded in the end?'

The future will not belong to those who sit on the sidelines. The future will not belong to the cynics. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

There's nothing you could say that would shock me.

Shock is still fun. I won't ever shut the door on it.

Leave it to me: I'm always top banana in the shock department.

I think President's candidates need shock collars or something.

At the shock of a joke, everything disappears but the present moment.

I don't set out to offend or shock, but I also don't do anything to avoid it.

History , as it comes into our daily lives, is charged with surprise and shock.

We Communists never conceal our political views. Definitely and beyond all doubt, our future or maximum program is to carry China forward to socialism and communism. Both the name of our Party and our Marxist world outlook unequivocally point to this supreme ideal of the future, a future of incomparable brightness and splendor.

I am still in shock and awe at being fired.

Well, it's nice being top banana in the shock department.

I've always enjoyed stories that take place in the future but my one disappointment was that the future books described never came. We're not on other planets, there are no flying cars, and the only robots we have in our homes just sweep the floor. So I wanted to write about a future that I thought could really happen. People ask me when I tell them the title of the book, 'Are we all dead?' The good news is, no. We're still here. And I even think the future in my book is strangely hopeful, although I'm sure there will be people who strongly disagree.

I think, as an actress, it is amazing to shock your audiences.

Getting pregnant proved to be a hell of a shock but it's really exciting.

I'm not going to give up the shock part of my comedy.

Death and its associates, after the initial shock, produce callousness.