Foreseen Quotes
41 quotes by 40 authors
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Let us hope that the advent of a successful flying machine, now only dimly foreseen and nevertheless thought to be possible, will bring nothing but…
— Octave Chanute
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The sobs and tears of joy he had not foreseen rose with such force within him that his whole body shook and for a long…
— Leo Tolstoy
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Every phenomenon, however trifling it be, has a cause, and a mind infinitely powerful, and infinitely well-informed concerning the laws of nature could have foreseen…
— Henri Poincare
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Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt which someone else makes for…
— Freya Stark
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The purpose of God is the sovereign cause of all that good that is in man, and of all that external, internal and eternal good…
— Thomas Brooks
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I couldn't have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother's death. The renewed energy, the surprising sweetness of grief. The tenderness I…
— Mary Schmich
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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 a group of…
— J. J. Abrams
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What plan for the regulation of the militia may be pursued by the national government is impossible to be foreseen...The project of disciplining all the…
— Alexander Hamilton
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That useful alterations will be suggested by experience, could not but be foreseen . . . . It moreover equally enables the general and state…
— James Madison
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Lighter is the wound foreseen.
— Cato the Elder
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The future of nations cannot be frozen . . . cannot be foreseen. If we are going to accomplish anything in our time we must…
— Herbert Hoover
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And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.
— Hippocrates
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The modern world needs people with a complex identity who are intellectually autonomous and prepared to cope with uncertainty; who are able to tolerate ambiguity…
— Robert J. Havighurst
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Naturally enough, I couldn't have foreseen the vast sea change which has come upon that scene as a result of German reunification and associated events.
— Brian Ferneyhough
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Take life too seriously, and what is it worth? If the morning wake us to no new joys, if the evening bring us not the…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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We will continue to ignore political and economic forecasts, which are an expensive distraction for many investors and businessmen. Thirty years ago, no one could…
— Warren Buffett
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Saturday afternoon, although occurring at regular and well-foreseen intervals, always takes this railway by surprise.
— W. S. Gilbert
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Election is an act of God before creation in which He chooses some people to be saved, not on account of any foreseen merit in…
— Wayne Grudem
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All is foreseen but the choice is given.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
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But the Constitution was made not only for southern and northern states, but for states neither northern nor southern, namely, the western states, their coming…
— William H. Seward
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