Quotes About Prediction

Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen.

When you read a novel, you know what to expect because you've been reading novels for a long time.

In the old days, they killed the messenger who brought the bad news... a Cassandra is never popular in her time.

I'd be doing Oscar predictions months ahead of time, and not only for the Oscars, for the Grammys. This is just what excited me as a kid.

Every time I've made a plan in my Hollywood acting career, something else has happened, so I've gotten out of the habit of trying to predict the future.

Watch what's going to happen, folks. It's not going to be pretty.This includes her [Hillary Clinton] plan to bring in 620,000 new refugees from Syria and that region over a short period of time.

I am not predicting here that Obama will fail like Jimmy Carter. What I am predicting is the Republican Party is not extinct and will after a period of time become a strong opposition party.

Everything I've stated may prove to be total poppycock.... Perhaps time will tell. Perhaps time will do nothing of the kind.

I don't know which way to take Donald Trump. And only time will tell. Only time will tell.

Marco Rubio, I think, will be president some day. Whether 2016 is his time, time will tell. He embraced immigration reform. He seems to have backed off. I'll let him explain why.

You never know if anything is going to stand the test of time or going to be successful.

I had a great time creating the future on 'Minority Report,' and it's a future that is coming true faster than any of us thought it would.

Who could have predicted what would happen in the time it takes to boil an egg?

Time will say nothing but I told you so.

Several renowned scientists have been predicting for some time that the world could enter a period of cooling right around now, with consequences that could be dire.

Any time a new technology is introduced, like when TV was first invented, everybody was like, "Radio's dead."

Why not look at Indonesia? It will be the third biggest country in the world in population in 25 years' time - after India and China.

Some period of time later you look up and say, "That concern was right on the mark; it happened exactly as I thought it would." So that's been really helpful to recognize.

Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.

A woman's intuition is better than a man's. Nobody knows anything, really, you know, and a woman can guess a good deal nearer than a man.

Every one knew he could foretell wars and famines, though that was not so hard, for there was always a war, and generally a famine somewhere.

Prophecy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.

A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes.

A man who goes around with a prophecy-gun ought never to get discouraged: if he will keep up his heart and fire at everything he sees, he is bound to hit something by and by.