Quotes About Future

He didn't need a magic rabbit to tell him his future, he knew his future because it was already here. This was the happily ever after part. Close the book, put it down, walk away.

We have our whole lives ahead of us and all I want to do is take a nap.

Whatever was coming next would come.

Quentin suppose her unfussy diligence reminded him unpleasantly of the future he was ignoring.

It's definitely true that there are a lot of the devices we used on 'Star Trek ' that came out the imagination of the writers, and the creators that are actually in the world today.

We can't afford to sacrifice another generation of American children to bureaucratic politics. We've got to get it done. The future, the health, the life - our nation depends on it and it's just foolish to think or act otherwise.

The Futurists?.... Well, of course, they are already past.

Your goals and priorities will change over time. Always keep your current goals on a single sheet of paper with you. It demystifies the future, and will keep you on track and help you get what you want.

Computers are Janus-faced, helping to create jobs even as they destroy jobs.

Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which will grow up ten years into domestic hatred.

Construed as a means instead of an end, history is the weapon with which we defend the future against the past.

Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.

The cycle of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully on the barren surface of the moon.

This proposal for genetic control exposes the idea of control itself in its ultimate absurdity: the arrogant notion that finite minds, operating with the limited equipment of their particular culture and historic moment, will ever be qualified to exercise absolute control over the infinite future possibilities of human development.

If I dare to foresee a promising future other than that which the technocrats (the power elite) have been confidently extrapolating, it is because I have found by personal experience that it is far easier to detach oneself from the system and to make a selective use of its facilities than the promoters of the Affluent Society would have their docile subjects believe.

The toughest thing about performing here is, where do you go from here? Next week, I'm at the Fort Lauderdale Performing Arts Center.

The life expectancy at the turn of the century was forty-five; now it is eighty. Living into one's eighties, nineties, and even past one hundred is a real possibility today, one that makes your fifties and sixties a time not for winding down but for gearing up—though for what, we may not be sure.

It's very important that we keep our imagination, which is our capacity to open the future, awake at a time at which the urge to collapse into the fetal position is high.

I urge President Trump to maintain American participation in the Paris Agreement - for the sake of our international leadership, economic competitiveness, and children's environmental future.

When historians write the last pages of their books, and the producers of history documentaries sit down to edit the final minutes of their programmes, there is often a strong urge to look to the future and emphasise the positive.

In the case of climate change, the threat is long-term and diffuse and requires broad international action for the benefit of people decades in the future. And in politics, the urgent always trumps the important, and that is what makes it a very difficult and challenging issue.

I see a bright future for Florida and for America, and my campaign will be about the ideas and principles that will help us achieve a more perfect union.

Let us make future generations remember us as proud ancestors just as, today, we remember our forefathers.

The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.