It is rather calming to remember that you really couldn't have foreseen what is happening to you. — Margaret Widdemer Copy Share Image
If I had foreseen Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I would have torn up my formula in 1905. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Not every situation can be foreseen or anticipated. There isn’t a checklist for everything.” — Chesley B. Sullenberger Copy Share Image
O visions ill foreseen! Better had I Liv'd ignorant of future, so had borne My part of evil only. — John Milton Copy Share Image
Saturday afternoon, although occurring at regular and well-foreseen intervals, always takes this railway by surprise. — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters. — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
Success means participating fully in the conscious evolution of humanity, contributing to the shift in time to avoid the chaos and disasters… — Barbara Marx Hubbard Copy Share Image
“the strategic situation foreseen by Robert Heinlein in the death dust story was like “a duel in a vestibule with flamethrowers,” anticipating… — Gregory Benford Copy Share Image
Election is an act of God before creation in which He chooses some people to be saved, not on account of any… — Wayne Grudem Copy Share Image
I first learnt to program a computer when I was nine, when my dad got a ZX80, but I think I would… — Suw Charman-Anderson Copy Share Image
“(An astrologer of a London tabloid was once fired by means of a letter from his editor which began, “As you will… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
[The] impersonal process of the market ... can be neither just nor unjust, because the results are not intended or foreseen. — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Notwithstanding all the care and anxiety of the persons who frame Acts of Parliament to guard against every event, it frequently turns… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
A short story relies on those values that make poetry and jazz what they are: tension, rhythms, inner beat, into unforeseen within… — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
Every phenomenon, however trifling it be, has a cause, and a mind infinitely powerful, and infinitely well-informed concerning the laws of nature… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
No blame can be attached to the army for its failure to accomplish what was projected by me... I alone am to… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
It's cool to be a nerd. There's a general understanding that smartphones didn't come from jocks. The digital age was foreseen by… — J. J. Abrams Copy Share Image
The future of nations cannot be frozen . . . cannot be foreseen. If we are going to accomplish anything in our… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
There may have been disillusionments in the lives of the medieval saints, but they would scarcely have been better pleased if they… — Hector Hugh Munro Copy Share Image
But, on more accounts than one, I had had enough of moose-hunting. I had not come to the woods for this purpose,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If I always appear prepared, it is because before entering an undertaking, I have meditated long and have foreseen what might occur.… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
A lot of people complain in the year 2003 that it's not the world of tomorrow as foreseen in the 1950s. 'Where… — Chris Hardwick Copy Share Image
In less than 70 hours, three astronauts will be launched on the flight of Apollo 8 from the Cape Kennedy Space Center… — Jerome F. Lederer Copy Share Image
What plan for the regulation of the militia may be pursued by the national government is impossible to be foreseen...The project of… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
A general in time of war is constantly bombarded by reports both true and false; by errors arising from fear or negligence… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
The denial of any distinction between foreseen and intended consequences, as far as responsibility is concerned, was not made by Sidgwick in… — G. E. M. Anscombe Copy Share Image
The modern world needs people with a complex identity who are intellectually autonomous and prepared to cope with uncertainty; who are able… — Robert J. Havighurst Copy Share Image
I came to fantasy fairly late. For some ten years, I had been happily writing fiction and non-fiction for adults. But I… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
Books have their destinies like men. And their fates, as made by generations of readers, are very different from the destinies foreseen… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The effect of civilization is to impose human law upon environment until it becomes machine-like in its regularity. The objectionable is eliminated,… — Jack London Copy Share Image
In a virtuous government, and more especially in times like these, public offices are what they should be - burdens to those… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Christ himself came down and took possession of me. . . I had never foreseen the possibility of that, of a real… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Take life too seriously, and what is it worth? If the morning wake us to no new joys, if the evening bring… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
In creativity the way will be found for subject to pass into object, the identity of subject with object will be restored.… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image