Quotes About Foreknowledge

There should be no surprise when you come to that hideous moment for which you've spent a lifetime preparing.

But sometimes, too, you have this little feeling of knowing, this fuzzy, gnawing sense that someone will become a major something in your life. You just know that theirs will be a life you will enter and become a part of.

Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming

God knows the end from the beginning.

I just want to say it: I knew what was coming.

Your patriarchal blessing will give you hints of things to come, warnings about things to avoid, promises of blessings available, and gifts to equip you to fulfill your life's mission. Nevertheless, many of your life's events will go unmentioned in your blessing.

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

In fact, the sense of positioning, anticipation, is something very natural. I always knew where the ball was going to drop.

We've read the back of the book, we know what's going to happen.

Why aren't you afraid of me? I've seen my death, and you're not it.

I know exactly what you are now. I know what you will be - Lothaire

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.

The most serious failure of leadership is the failure to foresee

Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart.

I could see, already, how this was going to end. "You'll have checkmate in three moves... Luckily for me," I told him, my fingers closing around my own queen, "I'll have checkmate in two.

Anticipation is sometimes more exciting than actual events.

But my foreknowledge must not encroach upon their free will. "In order not to impair human liberty, I will be ignorant of what I know, I will thicken upon my eyes the veils I have pierced, and in my blind clearsightedness I will let myself be surprised by what I have foreseen.

I've never been able to predict the future of anything.

You can predict all you want, but everybody knows what predictions get you.

You can be taught so much, but the sense of anticipation cannot be taught.

The easiest kind of prophecy," he said, "is the kind that predicts things that have already happened.

I told you this would happen. I am Cassandra—doomed to see the future yet destined never to be believed.

Why didn't you guess this would happen? Elayne demanded. He looked at her, expressionless. One side of his mouth twitched up, then he pulled his hat down, shading his eyepatch. Light, Elayne said. You knew. You spent this whole week planning with us, and you knew the entire time you'd throw it out with the dishwater.

There's always something new from you,' Perrin growled. 'Can't you tell us what to expect once in a while, instead of explaining after it happens?