Quotes of Forecast - somelinesforyou

“ Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10. ”

- Neil Armstrong

“ A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself. ”

- E. M. Forster

“ Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true. ”

- Eric Hoffer

“ There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it. ”

- Alfred Hitchcock

“ What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens. ”

- Benjamin Disraeli

“ It has been said that figures rule the world; maybe. I am quite sure that it is figures which show us whether it is being ruled well or badly. ”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“ Ye country comets, that portend No war not princes' funeral Shining unto no other end Than to presage the grass's fall. ”

- Andrew Marvell

“ Don't ever prophesy; for if you prophesy wrong, nobody will forget it; and if you prophesy right, nobody will remember it. ”

- Josh Billings

“ Look ere thou leap, see ere thou go. ”

- Thomas Tusser

“ Things which are accidentally the causes either of hope or fear are called good or evil omens. ”

- Baruch Spinoza

“ There is something in omens. ”

- Ovid

“ The most reliable way to forecast the future is to try to understand the present. ”

- John Naisbitt

“ The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly. ”

- Buddha

“ Our mere anticipations of life outrun its realities. ”

- Aesop

“ Anticipation forward points the view. ”

- Robert Burns

“ There is nothing so wretched and foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness to expect evil before it arrives. ”

- Seneca

“ Best not to anticipate too much... it jiggles the possibilities. ”

- Donald Barthelme

“ It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future. ”

- Yogi Berra

“ There's a challenge to playing these fantasy figures because they are fantasy figures. You have to enter into this sort of imaginative world of the writer. ”

- Ralph Fiennes

“ We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation. ”

- Lily Tomlin

“ I hope that is a turning point. But there is increasing skepticism. We've had a lot of events that appeared to be turning points, but the violence continues. ”

- Susan Collins

“ The next point — that's all you must think about. ”

- Rod Laver

“ Conservative humor is frankly harder than liberal humor. You get points for just being liberal. You can get more points if you make fun of your own side sometimes. ”

- Ted Rall

“ I live in the present. I only remember the past, and anticipate the future. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past, most the time. ”

- Kevin Kelly

“ Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies. ”

- Harold Bloom

“ Thou tremblest before anticipated ills, and still bemoanest what thou never losest. ”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“ Reappraise the past, reevaluate where we've been, clarify where we are, and predict or anticipate where we are headed. ”

- Toni Cade Bambara

“ My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 't is to crow: Don't never prophesy — onless ye know. ”

- James Russell Lowell

“ For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. ”

- Bible
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