Quotes About Prediction

To foretell the destiny of a nation, it is necessary to open a book that tells of her past.

As a forecaster, Marx shared the common destiny of all prophets: to be belied by events.

It seems that great minds a hundred years ago saw what would happen today or tomorrow, while we to whom it is happening blind ourselves in order not to be disturbed in our daily routine.

Know, he that foretells his own calamity, and makes events before they come, twice over, doth endure the pains of evil destiny.

The older we become, the more certain our future.

I think it's impossible to know the destiny of things.

Physics as we know it will be over in six months.

The United States will eventually fly the Communist red flag…The American people will hoist it themselves.

My worst expectations never happened.

When I was a VJ, people told me I will be an actor. I used to laugh.

Did I think it would last 30 years? No, I didn't think it would have those kind of legs.

I doubt if there will ever be another Republican president in my lifetime.

I will be the UFC lightweight champion. Mark my words.

Movies like 'Westworld' used ideas I'd thought of a long time ago.

You can have a couple of games where you play bad or very good. I think I'm a type of player that days before I know how I feel, if I'm playing good, if I'm playing bad. This is not like lottery here.

I'm a lousy predictor of the future.

It's a little counterintuitive to people, that doing what people don't expect ends up being what people do expect. But that is true of Mac.

If I throw you into an MRI machine right now, I can tell you what words you're about to say.

A lot of my songs are written prophetically: I write something, and then I make it happen.

My mom's gonna be the biggest star - mark my words right now!

The desert was clairvoyant, this is what he'd always believed, that the landscape unravels and reveals, it knows future as well as past.

At first they said skin irritation and sweaty palms. But now they say nausea, vomiting, shortness of breath." "This is human nausea we're talking about. Not rats." "Not rats," he said. I gave him the binoculars. "Well it won't come this way." "How do you know?" he said. "I just know. It's perfectly calm and still today. And when there's a wind at this time of year, it blows that way, not this way.

One fourth of the books in the Bible are of prophetic nature; the subject and statement of the books are eschatological, that is, they deal with prophecy. One fifth of the content of Scripture was predictive at the time of its writing; a large segment of that has been fulfilled.

Insofar as international law is observed, it provides us with stability and order and with a means of predicting the behavior of those with whom we have reciprocal legal obligations.