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Quotes About Prediction

Jij voelt alsof het gaat regenen. - Aadhya
~ Naomi Novik
It is difficult to predict what our finest moments will be, but we know when they happen.
~ Naomi Shihab Nye
the TV set. Some predicted that this peculiar contraption was going to change our lives forever and turn us all into creatures of the future, like the Americans
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
L'avvocato conosceva bene la Storia e sapeva che il futuro si legge nelle strade, nelle fabbriche e nelle caserme molto più chiaramente che sulle pagine dei giornali.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Nothing predicts future behavior as much as past impunity.
~ Carol Tavris
Do musical preferences predict political inclinations? Not long ago, an official with Pandora said that its predictions about those inclinations, based on zip code as well as musical choices, are between 75 and 80 percent accurate. And with that level of accuracy, it developed an advertising service "that would enable candidates and political organizations to target the majority of its 73 million active monthly Pandora listeners based on its sense of their political leanings.
~ Cass R. Sunstein
She believed her ability was a kind of second sight, something she inherited from her father, who she said could forecast the weather and had predicted the war with Mexico.
~ Catherine Clinton
which may probably come to pass)
~ Celia Rees
I don't think I'll see the next Messi in my lifetime.
~ Michael Laudrup
Do you know what 'meteorologist' means in English? It means liar.
~ Lewis Black
In two years, I'll be making more than Michael Schumacher.
~ Nelson Piquet
I think Mickey Gall's going to be really good.
~ Daniel Cormier
I remember Mitch Miller saying every week, This rock and roll stuff will never last. But one doesn't like to bring that up to Mitch.
~ Rosemary Clooney
Never in a million years did I think 'Game of Thrones' was going to take off like it did.
~ Emilia Clarke
If I said I would knock out Sonny Liston in 1 minute and 49 seconds of the first round, that would hurt the gate.
~ Muhammad Ali
It's estimated that the Arctic, within seven years and maybe as soon as 2015, will have its first ice-free summer in the last 700,000 years (keep in mind that humans have only been on this planet for 165,000 years). Earlier projections predicted ice-free summers as far out in the future as 2080.
~ Thom Hartmann
And if you hear a frog jump into the pond with a flounce like a stone thrown in, be sure you run and tell me, because it is a sign of rain.
~ Thomas Hardy
Gabriel's malignant star was assuredly setting fast.
~ Thomas Hardy
It occurred to Dr. Lecter in the moment that with all his knowledge and intrusion, he could never entirely predict her, or own her at all. He could feed the caterpillar, he could whisper through the chrysalis; what hatched out followed its own nature and was beyond him.
~ Thomas Harris
I can tell him what you've said." "He'll ignore it. And Buffalo Bill will go on and on. Wait until he scalps one and see how you like it. Ummmm Ã¢â'¬Â¦ I'll tell you one thing about Buffalo Bill without ever seeing the case, and years from now when they catch him, if they ever do, you'll see that I was right and I could have helped. I could have saved lives. Clarice?
~ Thomas Harris
After twenty years of studying millionaires across a wide spectrum of industries, we have concluded that the character of the business owner is more important in predicting his level of wealth than the classification of his business.
~ Thomas J. Stanley
History, by apprising [the people] of the past, will enable them to judge of the future.
~ Thomas Jefferson
You never know ahead of time what something's really going to be like.
~ Katherine Paterson
I'm sure nothing more exciting will happen beyond finding some Roman ruins beneath the pasture," Gunner predicted, an excellent example of why he would never be called psychic in any understanding of the word.
~ Katie MacAlister