I've always noticed that films set in any sort of future very rarely draw on the present.
Since God knows our future, our personalities, and our capacity to listen, He isn't ever going to say more to us than we can deal with at the moment.
In the future, I can imagine that we will genetically modify ourselves using the genes that have doubled our life span since we were chimpanzees.
One of the most important things that I did to turn my life around was to realize and to accept that from this minute, that's all we have. Everything that happened behind us we cannot change so you might as well look to the future.
If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.
I would like to direct in the future, but I am in no hurry with that.
Your future is only big enough for you to walk through, not for you and your past to walk through.
Like many of my friends in the Pakistani diaspora - and many of my friends in Pakistan itself, for that matter - I have sometimes looked at the country of my birth and wondered whether its future will be one of steady and sad decline.
I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States.
Yet, our achievements also mask many continuing failings and seem to expose more future dangers.
Our first priority should be to protect the homeland. If we don't, a future generation might ask, 'Who lost America?'
Though I was excited about the Sojourner Truth play, it was not reassuring to think that my entire future might depend on the success of that one show.
We have no intention of leaving the euro. In no way will we experiment with the future of our country.
Hope is trust in God's promises, faith that if we act now, the desired blessings will be fulfilled in the future.
To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense.
Learn from the past, look to the future, but live in the present.
Americans have a penchant for the future and tend to disregard the past.
What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?
I am lucky in that I love what I do, but it can still be hard to be away from the kids for long lengths of time. At the end of the day, all I want is to be with my kids, but it's worth it to create a future for my family.
We must always emphasize research and development of science and mathematics, and I can think of no better way to achieve this than through our future in space.
You don't change the world by hiding in the woods, wearing a hair shirt, or buying indulgences in the form of 'Save the Earth' bumper stickers. You do it by articulating a vision for the future and pursuing it with all the ingenuity humanity can muster.
It therefore become essential for the future of Judaism itself that its advancement should be correlated with a similar effort to advance the cause of religion generally.
Perhaps at a later point important developments will be traced back to September 11. But for now we do not know which of the many scenarios will actually hold in the future.
There are hurdles, there are handicaps, hardships you have to face in life, but you hope for a great future.
When we started ShapeShift, a future world of natively digital assets was very theoretical.
Putting even one thing in your shopping basket that's locally produced or organic makes all the difference. It's a vote for the future, for animal welfare, for the environment, for your children's children.
It's easy to imagine ways the future can be ugly and depressing. It's harder, but more worthwhile, to imagine plausible ways we can make it better.
In my view, you can't go to the future if you haven't come from the past.
I can see now a vision emerging how Canada is going to profit in the future from our Arctic resources without destroying the environment on which it is all based.
Men may be spoiled by education, even as they are spoiled by illiteracy. Education is the preparation of the mind for future work, hence men should be educated with special reference to the work.
When your future arrives, will you blame your past?
We believe that peace is not just signed papers, but rather a contract between generations for the building of a more promising and less threatening future.
I'm just very keen to have a family and both Catherine and I, you know, are looking forward to having a family in the future.
If we care about the children, the grandchildren, the future generations, we need to make sure that they do not become the cannon fodder of the future.
What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
It is our duty to see that our future citizens are well born; that they are properly nourished, and are reared in that environment most likely to develop in them their full capacity and powers.
