164 Quotes About The-future

...the movies are most people's exposure to ideas about the future.

How did I get so bogged down in ordinariness that even this once I couldn't do the spontaneous thing, the thing I really wanted to do. The future is forbidden to no one. Unless we forbid it ourselves.

Without the hope of posterity, for our race if not for ourselves, without the assurance that we being dead yet live, all pleasures of the mind and senses sometimes seem to me no more than pathetic and crumbling defences shored up against our ruin.

Canada, the most affluent of countries, operates on a depletion economy which leaves destruction in its wake. Your people are driven by a terrible sense of deficiency. When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can’t eat money.

All the bridges you crossed and thought you burned are still looming ahead.

welcome to the futureI have come into the awarewhere the gilt edges are

The future is nothing without the present.

We don’t care about what you did yesterday—we care about what you’re going to do tomorrow.

I would have loved to live in a worldof women and men gailyin collusion with green leaves, stalks,building mineral cities, transparent domes,little huts of woven grasseach with its own pattern—a conspiracy to coexistwith the Crab Nebula, the explodinguniverse, the Mind—