Quotes About Prediction

If someone tells you there will be trouble, believe them.

He had said it would be trouble if she came to his apartment, and still she had gone. If someone tells you there will be trouble, believe them.

You can't know what's going to happen before it happens.

Someday, people will be buying these in antique shops, and they'll have tiny computers that they carry around with them"—which I think he probably meant as a joke, except he didn't laugh.

The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see." – Winston Churchill "You

When you throw a tennis ball in the air, you can count on it coming down.

To know our enemy we must understand their trajectory. If I can know their history I can predict their future.

randomness and lack of warning are the attributes of human violence we fear most, but you now know that human violence is rarely random and rarely without warning.

If we are looking for some specific, expected danger, we are less likely to see the unexpected danger.

because my childhood became all about prediction, I learned to live in the future. I didn't feel things in the present because I wanted to be a moving target, gone to the future before any blow could really be felt.

Just, you never know what the next day is going to bring. That goes for football, goes for off the field, and I gave up a long time ago trying to predict the future and trying to deal with things I couldn't deal with.

You must be out of your mind. These boys are going to explode. I am completely confident that one day they will be bigger than Elvis Presley.

They tried to tell us that what happened to them would happen to us, too, but we could not hear the message. Mistook it for nostalgia, when they were speaking prophecy.

Life is so constructed that an event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.

I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away... it was already here. I just wasn't aware of it yet.

Looks like your sci-fi prediction came true right away, Xavier." "That can be gratifying," mused the novelist. "But not all the time."»

Irrationality in politics is not a puzzle. It is precisely what an economic theory of irrationality predicts.

No dog can go as fast as the money you bet on him.

The end is not obvious at the beginning, Artabanus, Book 7 Herodotus

Life is largely a matter of expectation.

Calchas the son of Thestor, far the most eminent of bird-seers

Xanthus, you waste your breath by prophesying my destruction. I know well enough that I am doomed to perish here...Nevertheless, I am not going to stop until I have given the Trojans their bellyful of war.

the thunder has sounded--but who knows where the rain's going to fall.

The wisest prophets make sure of the event first.