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Quotes About Prediction

History is but the unrolled scroll of prophecy.
~ James A. Garfield
If history has a habit of repeating itself, doesn't someone have to stay behind to shout out a warning?
~ Jodi Picoult
There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
~ Ken Olsen
Smell remembers and tells the future. ... Smell is home or loneliness. Confidence or betrayal. Smell remembers.
~ Cherrie Moraga
They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run.
~ Gaylord Perry
There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
~ Ken Olsen
God will destroy America by the hands of the Muslims. God will not give Japan or Europe the honor of bringing down the United States; this is an honor God will bestow upon Muslims.
~ Louis Farrakhan
I will make a prophecy that may now sound peculiar. In fifty years Lincoln's name will be inscribed close to Washington's on this Republic's roll of honor.
~ Carl Schurz
In recent times Italy have been in a World Cup final every 12 years and I hope to still be there in 2018.
~ Gianluigi Buffon
Who is the wise man? He who sees what's going to be born.
~ Solomon
Don't predict disappointment while hope is an option
~ Obert Skye
...ever plagued by the naive hope that this timemy intuition might be mistaken...
~ Anna Jae
"Wait'll next year!" is the favorite cry of baseball fans football fans hockey fans and gardeners.
~ Robert Orben
Anticipating the end of the world is humanity's oldest passtime
~ David Mitchell
I don't make mistakes. I make prophecies which immediately turn out to be wrong.
~ Murray Walker
Plans are invitation to disappointment.
~ Derek Landy, Mortal Coil
The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.
~ George F. Will
The weatherman is always right. It's just his timing that's off.
~ Bill Cosby
There's a trench coat and a tragedy in your future.
~ Jim Norton
Visiting Future World is like opening a Chinese fortune cookie to read, "Soon you'll be finished with dinner."
~ P. J. O'Rourke
We get to see it! January 1st, 2000! We get to see... all those fundamentalist preachers having to do their backpedaling when the Armageddon doesn't occur.
~ David Cross
The Doctor says, "You'll live to be 60!" "I AM 60!" "See, what did I tell you?"
~ Henny Youngman
Many people think the Cards at the end of the wire will cross the finish line first.
~ Jerry Coleman
What'd you think would happen when you died? That the prophecy would just be over and we'd all be like, oops, guess we got that one wrong?
~ H.M. Ward, Torn