Foresighted Quotes & Sayings

Things don't look hopeful for Darwinian naturalists. — Alvin Plantinga

If you start trying to communicate ideas, I think you don't allow the audience to see themselves. — Oscar Isaac

Evolution is adventitious and not foresighted. Only through the deaths of an immense number of slightly maladapted organisms are we, brains and all, here today. — Carl Sagan

It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown. — Dalai Lama

The crisis and recession have led to very low interest rates, it is true, but these events have also destroyed jobs, hamstrung economic growth and led to sharp declines in the values of many homes and businesses. — Ben Bernanke

Money is that dear thing which,
if you're not careful, you can squander
your whole life thinking of ... — Mary Jo Salter

Lifelong pain, an unwanted pregnancy, and even death may be the reward for such a brief window of pleasure. What a foolish gamble! — James C. Dobson

A man barreled around a corner, heading straight for the princess. Winter tensed half a second before he reached her. Grabbing Winter's elbow, he yanked back the red hood. Scarlet gasped. Her knees weakened. The man stared at Winter with a mixture of confusion and disappointment and maybe even anger, all locked up in eyes so vividly green Scarlet could see them glowing from here. She — Marissa Meyer

If one sat up as long as an hour past bedtime, except on Christmas and birthdays, one would be ill. Laurie, who had had this explained to him many times and accepted it as incontrovertible fact, inferred from it that after three hours one would probably die. — Mary Renault

And what would we be, we sinful creatures, without fear, perhaps the most foresighted, the most loving of the divine gifts? — Umberto Eco

Fact: There are over 29,000,000 psychopaths worldwide. — Kent A. Kiehl

You'd think the Angel would have been foresighted enough to give us a birth-control rune, but no dice. — Cassandra Clare

If you move and act in the material world, then the material world acts on you. Pain hurts, just as greed intoxicates and lust burns. We may not die easy and we sure as hell don't die well, but we can die. If we're still loved and remembered, something else a whole lot like us comes along and the whole damn thing starts all over again. And if we're forgotten, we're done. — Neil Gaiman

They're two types of people; those who are busy being about it and those who talk about it. — Mirjana Puhar