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Quotes About Forewarning

We've read the back of the book, we know what's going to happen.
~ Richard Siken
Let my notes, like the most sensitive seismograph, record the curve of even the most insignificant vibrations of my brain: for it is precisely such vibrations that are sometimes the forewarning of...
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
Something's going to happen!
~ Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Personally, as a filmmaker, I think you should prepare your audience as to what they can expect.
~ Sudeep
Always be prepared to start.
~ Joe Montana
And for some reason, men and women who told the tale often found a need to add almost identical words. The storm is coming, they said, staring southward in worry. The storm is coming.
~ Robert Jordan
She seemed to walk in an atmosphere of things about to happen.
~ L.M. Montgomery
The most expected thing you can expect is what's unexpected.
~ Dick Allen
It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.
~ Voltaire
Beyond this day, no thinking person could fail to see what would happen.
~ Oskar Schindler
Some places speak distinctly. Certain dank gardens cry aloud for a murder; certain old houses demand to be haunted; certain coasts are set apart for shipwrecks.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Some places speak distinctly. Certain dark gardens cry aloud for a murder; certain old houses demand to be haunted; certain coasts are set apart for shipwreck.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
So maybe he had known she was coming.
~ Douglas E. Richards
she felt that little tingle at the base of her skull that warned her of bad news.
~ Lisa Jackson
I can't stand people who say 'I told you so.' That's worse than somebody coming up and eating your dinner before you have a chance to sit down.
~ Lloyd Alexander
He's going to say it, I just know he is … "Let's see what happens.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Carson McCullers llamaba iluminaciones a esos espasmos premonitorios de aquello que aún no sabes, pero que ya se agolpa en los bordes de tu conciencia.
~ Rosa Montero
You'll be beaten for this in the morning; but I may as well give you something on account now.
~ Rudyard Kipling
Ik vind het vervelend dat ik het je moet vertellen, maar je zult nooit gelukkig worden. Ik wil je geen pijn doen door dit te zeggen. Ik zeg het omdat ik het wel zo eerlijk vind om open kaart te spelen voor we beginnen. Ik hoop dat je dat waardeert, want vanaf nu zal niemand meer open of eerlijk tegen je zijn. Dus nogmaals, ik zeg het je vooraf maar: je zult nooit gelukkig worden. Ik heb het voor je opgeschreven. Heel graag gedaan.
~ Joey Goebel
At first there's nothing to see, but you feel a sort of weariness that tells you something is in the air.
~ E.H. Gombrich
Thou wert wise to chisel for me: «Taken from the evil to come».
~ Edgar Lee Masters
Don't ever prophesy; for if you prophesy wrong, nobody will forget it; and if you prophesy right, nobody will remember it.
~ Josh Billings
When I fought Jorge Cota, that's a prelim of what's to be expected from me in the future.
~ Jermell Charlo
I should've suspected trouble when the coffee failed to arrive.
~ Frank Herbert