Foreseen Quotes

41 quotes by 40 authors

Christ himself came down and took possession of me. . . I had never foreseen the possibility of that, of a real contact, person to… — Simone Weil
Shakespeare very rarely makes the least attempt to surprise by his catastrophes. They are felt to be inevitable, though the precise way in which they… — Andrew Coyle Bradley
O visions ill foreseen! Better had I Liv'd ignorant of future, so had borne My part of evil only. — John Milton
I may say that this is the greatest factor: the way in which the expedition is equipped, the way in which every difficulty is foreseen,… — Roald Amundsen
Before reaching the final line, however, he had already understood that he would never leave that room, for it was foreseen that the city of… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneâ€™s self when one does not lack wit and is familiar with all the niceties of language. Language… — George Sand
He sat a long time and he thought about his life and how little of it he could ever have foreseen and he wondered for… — Cormac McCarthy
We must be listened to: above and beyond our personal experience, we have collectively witnessed a fundamental unexpected event, fundamental precisely because unexpected, not foreseen… — Primo Levi
A great dread fell on him, as if he was awaiting the pronouncement of some doom that he had long foreseen and vainly hoped might… — J.R.R. Tolkien
No, no, one can imagine nothing in the world, not the least thing. Everything is composed of so many isolated details that are not to… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Many years have passed since that night. The wall of the staircase up which I had watched the light of his candle gradually climb was… — Marcel Proust
Where does a story truly begin? In life, there are seldom clear-cut beginnings, those moments when we can, in looking back, say that everything started.… — Nicholas Sparks
At last, Lady Evenstar, fairest in this world, and most beloved, my world is fading. Lo! we have gathered, and we have spent, and now… — J.R.R. Tolkien
There is only one difference between a bad economist and a good one: the bad economist confines himself to the visible effect; the good economist… — Frederic Bastiat
Life, my dear Watson, is infinitely stranger than fiction; stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We could not conceive the things… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Our founding fathers could not have foreseen that freedom of the press might eventually be threatened just as much by media consolidation as by government. — Marshall Herskovitz
Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process. — Kenneth Clark
A danger foreseen is half avoided — Proverb
Hey Bonita, glad to meet ya. For the kind of stunning newness, I must have foreseen ya. Hey, being with you is a top priority.… — A Tribe Called Quest
You know, of course, that they have called this boy my downfall? You all know that on the night I lost my powers and my… — Voldemort

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