Quotes About Foresight

No matter what happens, there's always somebody who knew it would

Dreaming of a tomorrow, which tomorrow, will be as distant then as 'tis today.

Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe, Sadder than owl-songs or the midnight blast, Is that portentous phrase, 'I told you so,' Utter'd by friends, those prophets of the past, Who, 'stead of saying what you now should do, Own they foresaw that you would fall at last, And solace your slight lapse 'gainst 'bonos mores,' With a long memorandum of old stories.

Cuando la felicidad es demasiado grande, cuando a uno le curan de una herida demasiado mala, cuando todo es demasiado bonito, sólo hay un presentimiento que un hombre sensato pueda tener: algo está a punto de joderse.

You don't go walking into the proverbial lion's den lightly. You start with a good breakfast.

You predicted quick victory. Now it's going to get hopelessly complicated. Jesus, don't you know any better than that by now?

One can have only as much preparation as he has foresight.

Just remember, Harry, I told you this was a bad idea." "Preemptive I-told-you-sos," I said. "Now I've seen everything.

We must prepare for as many futures as possible, not merely the ones we prefer.

planning became a great deal simpler and easier when one didn't have the additional bother of working out how to survive said plan.

Molly was a big believer in shaping the future by way of carrying anything you might need in a backpack.

You can't fix tomorrow until it gets here." "Which is weird, because you can screw it up from decades away.

One can have only as much preparation as he has foresight - Gard

Goodness, think of what trouble they'd be in if Folly hadn't practiced.

Murphy squeezed back. "Harry. You can't fix tomorrow until it gets here." "Which is weird, because you can screw it up from decades away.

You can't fix tomorrow until it gets here." "Which is weird, because you can screw it up from decades away.

He was thinking that the cities, perhaps, needed to look into the future even more than the country did. They should look ahead for forty, eighty, one hundred and sixty years, to a strong and healthy plain of population - or to an overworked, weakened, underfed, and infertile desert.

But if you could travel back through Time, and find yourself as you used to be, wouldn't you try, just once at least, to give her some kind of warning? Wouldn't you want to make things right?

Think about it for a while. How can you hope to have any friends when you spy on everything they do? How can you enjoy the present when you can see the future? Most of all, how can you love when you know Death lies in waiting?

do you fix a wheel that isn't broken, or do you wait until the cart collapses?

If you focus on sandbagging the beachhead, you can ignore the tsunami that's approaching. Try it any other way and you'll go crazy.

How could I not have seen this coming, when I looked into your eyes and vowed to be with you forever?

No plan can prevent a stupid person from doing the wrong thing in the wrong place at the wrong time - but a good plan should keep a concentration from forming.

The one who anticipates the action wins. The one who does not, loses.