Quotes About Foreseeing

As a university student, I tried hard to write poems in Korean. It was at that time that I foresaw my death and the world's death. I think my poems started at that time.

History is that thing that, in hindsight, one always saw coming; a few seem able to glimpse it before it has settled on its destination

I mean a God whose deficiencies don't arise from the simplemindedness of his human creators, but constitute his most essential, immanent character. This would be a God limited in his omniscience and omnipotence, one who can make mistakes in foreseeing the future of his works, who can find himself horrified by the course of events he has set in motion. This is… a cripple God, who always desires more than he's able to have, and doesn't always realize this to begin with.

3And I, Enoch, I alone saw the likeness of the end of all things. Nor did any human being see it, as I saw

Los problemas siempre empiezan mucho antes de que llegues a verlos realmente.

Whenever possible, Libby prophesized doom.

She was proud of her power of prophecy, though she had not yet lived to see any of her prophecies fulfilled.

In his mind he fingered the necklace of the days to come.

A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.

The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come.

I have always known a thing before it happens.

A prophetic world that can never come true.

The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.

didn't surprise Jake, he'd been watching it build all along.

How Plagueis would have mocked him for allowing himself to become personally involved in such a seemingly trivial matter; but then his Master had never foreseen that his onetime apprentice would become Emperor.

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But all these hints at foreseeing what actually did happen on the French as well as on the Russian side are only conspicuous now because the event has justified them. If the event had not come to pass, these hints would have been forgotten, as thousands and millions of suggestions and supposition are now forgotten that were current at the period, but have been shown by time to be unfounded and so have been consigned to oblivion.

What's the opposite of déjà vu, when you see something that hasn't happened yet?" "I don't know—avant verrais?

I'm having ANOTHER VISION,

an ugly premonition

declares, "I alone know the end from the beginning" (Isa. 46:10).His message includes history written in advance. We call this prophecy.

Often the good saint sat mutely by and listened to the hatred of men who concealed themselves under the cloak of constitutional royalists. She shuddered as she foresaw the ruin of the Church.

Others, I take it, will work better with breathing bronze and draw living faces from marble; others will plead at law with greater eloquence, or measure the pathways of the sky, or forecast the rising stars. Be it your concern, Roman, to rule the nations under law (this is your proper skill) and establish the way of peace; to spare the conquered and put down the mighty from their seat.

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