Quotes About Foresee

If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

It's better to prepare than to repair.

Create a Sense of Anticipation.

Y a mí, ya que prefiero escoger mis derrotas, quiero que me recuerdes derrotado, como quien algo espera más allá de los tiempos y los hechos. Quizás porque haga falta haberlo presagiado o porque, en todo caso, nadie sabe dónde acaban los sueños.

We usually get what we anticipate.

i could not stop imagining how it would end

Like everyone who possesses something precious in order to know what would happen if he ceased for a moment to possess it, he had detached the precious object from his mind, leaving, as he thought, everything else in the same state as when it was there. But the absence of one part from a whole is not only that, it is not simply a partial lack, it is a derangement of all the other parts, a new state which it was impossible to foresee in the old.

But the absence of one part from a whole is not only that, it is not simply a partial lack, it is a derangement of all the other parts, a new state which it was impossible to foresee in the old.

Like all those who enjoy the possession of a thing, in order to know what would happen if he ceased for a moment to possess it he had removed that thing from his mind, leaving everything else in the same state as when it was there. But the absence of a thing is not merely that, it is not simply a partial lack, it is a disruption of everything else, it is a new state which one cannot foresee in the old.

It has occurred to me subsequently that this moment of her stroke cannot have come as a complete surprise to my grandmother, that she had possibly even foreseen it well before it occurred, lived with the thought that it would happen. She had not known, of course, when this fatal moment would come—of that she was unsure, as lovers are when a similar sense of uncertainty leads them to base unreasonable hopes and, in turn, unjustified suspicions on the fidelity of their mistresses.

If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.

Who heeds not the future will find sorrow at hand

She'll prophesy your death. She won't say when.

Even if women were immortal, they could never foresee their last lover.

I play the if game too, Tavish. It´s practically a hobby of mine, but I´ve found it´s a game of endless possibilities with no winner. No matter how great a gift or skill, it´s impossible to forsee every outcome.

I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.

History is a sequence of random events and unpredictable choices, which is why the future is so difficult to foresee.

Nothing in the world can one imagine beforehand,not the least thing,everything is made up of so many unique particulars that cannot be forseen.

I am afraid because I can so clearly foresee my own life rotting away of itself, like a leaf that rots without falling, while I pursue my round of existence from day to day.