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
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 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
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
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
We will continue to ignore political and economic forecasts, which are an expensive distraction for many investors and businessmen. Thirty years ago,… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
It is rather calming to remember that you really couldn't have foreseen what is happening to you. — Margaret Widdemer 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
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
If I had foreseen Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I would have torn up my formula in 1905. — Albert Einstein 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
That useful alterations will be suggested by experience, could not but be foreseen . . . . It moreover equally enables the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
He only can create the greatest imaginable beauty who has endured all imaginable pangs, for only when we have seen and foreseen… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Gifford Pinchot points out that in colonial and pioneer days the forest was a foe and an obstacle to the settler. It… — Richard E. Blackwelder Copy Share Image
Life, my dear Watson, is infinitely stranger than fiction; stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We could not… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
The dreamers, those who misread the actual state of affairs and act upon their emotions, are often the source of the greatest… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
The Deluge: A punishment inflicted on the human race by an all-knowing God, who, through not having foreseen the wickedness of men,… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
[Photography] is always like a state of grace, like the appearance of something that I hadn't foreseen, that surprises me and stops… — Sarah Moon Copy Share Image
The purpose of God is the sovereign cause of all that good that is in man, and of all that external, internal… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
Story involves action. Action towards an end not to be foreseen (by the reader) but also towards an end which, having been… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Danger invites rescue. ... The wrongdoer may not have foreseen the coming of a deliverer. He is accountable as if he had. — Benjamin Cardozo Copy Share Image
You are always too late with a development if you are so slow that people demand it before you yourself recognize it.… — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image