Top 1200 Future World Quotes & Sayings - Page 8

Science fiction seldom attempts to predict the future. More often than not, it tries to prevent the future.

People look to the future for salvation, but the future never arrives.

The future is our greatest adversary. We are a very backward-looking society, and as such, we are continually blindsided by the future.

Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.

Nobody gets excited about the future at all, ever. The future is something we find depressing and worrisome.

If the world is to save any part of its resources for the future, it must reduce not only consumption but the number of consumers.

The young all have the same dream: to save the world. Some quickly forget this dream, convinced that there are more important things to do, like having a family, earning money, traveling, and learning a foreign language. Others, though, decide that it really is possible to make a difference in society and to shape the world we will hand on to future generations.

My specific goal is to revolutionize the future of the species. Mathematics is just another way of predicting the future.

In my view, all that is necessary for faith is the belief that by doing our best we shall come nearer to success and that success in our aims (the improvement of the lot of mankind, present and future) is worth attaining...I maintain that faith in this world is perfectly possible without faith in another world.

You can tell the future?' 'More like the future mugs me from time to time.' Rachel said 'I speak prophecies. The oracle spirit kind of hijacks me once in a while, and speaks important stuff that doesn't make any sense to anybody. But yeah, the prophecies tell the future.

Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.

I keep dreaming of a future, a future with a long and healthy life, not lived in the shadow of cancer but in the light.

It is critical to bundle all future variable costs of supporting the customer in order to fairly estimate the future contribution.

Haiti allowed us to glimpse into a future of what disaster response might look like in a hyper-connected world.

Italy will start the future. Because in the last 20, 20 years, Italy discussed only about the past. "Oh, the past is wonderful in Italy." Look, look Palazzo Vecchio. The most beautiful place in the world, in my opinion, I think this is incredible place. But the past is not sufficient. Is not enough. We need the future. Because we are Italians. And Italy is not only a museum.

I don't have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary.

Looking towards the future excites me with the possibilities we have to improve, and I'm excited about what the future might bring.

What you think of as they past is a memory trace, stored in the mind, of a former Now. When you remember the past, you reactivate a memory trace -- and you do so now. The future is an imagined Now, a projection of the mind. When the future comes, it comes as the Now. When you think about the future, you do it now. Past and future obviously have no reality of their own. Just as the moon has no light of its own, but can only reflect the light of the sun, so are past and future only pale reflections of the light, power, and reality of the eternal present. Their reality is "borrowed" from the Now.

A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.

The future of mankind, for the socialist, is simple: pull down the existing order and allow the future to emerge.

Understanding future warfare is the most important responsibility of those who must defend a nation from future enemies!

I would say, then, that you are faced with a future in which education is going to be number one amongst the great world industries.

When politicians & economists understand we live in a finite world & act accordingly then a better future has a chance

We need to have a vision of the world we want to create so that we can see ourselves as collaborators with future generations in the project of shaping it.

The future of work is changing. It's becoming a world where you are owning a lot about how you make your living.

To be a teacher you must be a prophet - because you are trying to prepare people for a world thirty to fifty years into the future.

In the future, I'll be braver, she told herself. In the future, I will always speak my mind, eloquently, passionately.

The source of anxiety lies in the future. If you can keep the future out of mind, you can forget your worries.

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.

We believe SpaceX will become the world leader in space transport, and we want our investors to be part of that future.

If you are deliberately trying to create a future that feels safe, you will willfully ignore the future that is likely.

The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.

In the 1970s, I think that there was probably a higher degree of respect for science, of hope about the future, and the future-oriented vision.

The future is not really the future. It's just a present that looks good.

The future is dark, which is the best thing the future can be, I think.

From a young age, people have been touting me as a future world champion and it's nice to get that out of the way.

I'm one of these people who couldn't imagine the future. The future never occurred to me. I just loved life every day.

There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learnt to separate them.

My generation, we're so smart and opinionated, and we know the world we want to live in; we know the future we want. We're such a liberal, forward-thinking generation that's been held back by an older generation that doesn't understand it, doesn't want the world to progress quickly because of old ideologies.

The future is not a gift: it is an achievement. Every generation helps make its own future. This is the essential challenge of the present

The future of the world depends on the full restoration of the Sacred Feminine in all its tenderness, passion, divine ferocity, and surrendered persistence.

I have said that gymnastics can be abusive and brutal. That was my experience. I felt trapped in a world where authority figures were dictating my future.

If future generations ask us what we are fighting for [in World War Two], we shall tell them the story of Lidice.

Real life security and contentment come not from putting a gun in the cupboard, but from taking a role in the world's future.

Visiting Future World is like opening a Chinese fortune cookie to read, "Soon you'll be finished with dinner."

I realised that the 'future' is different to how I imagined it. When I was a kid I thought it would be a bright, shiny Tomorrow's World. It isn't.

It is not wise to neglect the present for the future, for who knows what the future will be?

The miracle of Jesus is himself, not what he said or did about the future. Forget the future. I'd worship someone who could do that.

Our world is increasingly interdependent and pluralistic, and in order to ensure a civil future, we must get to know one another.

Young people who have no future will easily give up their future, which they can't see on the horizon.

In a world of serious threats, Britain stands tall, saving lives and building a more prosperous, stable future for all.

There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learned to separate them.

But knowing that the world had come full circle to our Depression story didn't change the way we worked on it, or encourage us to change our thrust. I want people to be able to pick up this book in the future no matter what's going on in the world, and appreciate it on its own merits, not for any perceived winks at the headlines.

I see a bright future for the future of computing and its implications for games.

We all have an obligation as citizens of this earth to leave the world a healthier, cleaner, and better place for our children and future generations.

It is the growing periphery of the Arab world - the masses at its margins, not its feeble and decaying center - that is shaping the future of the region.

America cannot turn its back on the economic future and women-owned businesses are part of that future.

Let the future say of our generation that we sent forth mighty currents of hope and that we worked together to heal the world.

I'm focused on my future. I'm ignoring my past, apart from the bits that I draw from to help me focus on my future.

Exploring and colonizing Mars can bring us new scientific understanding of climate change, of how planet-wide processes can make a warm and wet world into a barren landscape. By exploring and understanding Mars, we may gain key insights into the past and future of our own world.