Predicted Quotes
152 quotes by 148 authors
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The increasing frequency of extreme weather events, droughts and floods is in line with what climate scientists have been predicting for decades - and evidence…
— David Suzuki
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A self-fulfilling prophecy is an assumption or prediction that, purely as a result of having been made, cause the expected or predicted event to occur…
— Paul Watzlawick
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Let's cut to the chase, the sharia controversy. I don't think I, or my colleagues, predicted just how enormous the reaction would be. I failed…
— Rowan Williams
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I wasn't predicted to be anything. I just followed an inner spirit, and it put me in the right place and the right time. I…
— Andrew Young
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I'd be kidding if I said that I predicted the financial collapse.
— Fareed Zakaria
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The financial benefits of prefabrication have never been as large as its advocates predicted, for although some labor costs can be reduced by machine manufacturing,…
— Martin Filler
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The 'looking forward' so prevalent in the late 1990s was bound to end once the new millennium began. Like some others of that era, I…
— Douglas Rushkoff
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Mmm....she's doomed! You're doomed!! They're all doomed! Notice I didn't specify what kind of doom, so no matter what happens, I predicted it. How very…
— Christopher Paolini
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The TV scientist who mutters sadly, "The experiment is a failure; we have failed to achieve what we had hoped for," is suffering mainly from…
— Robert M. Pirsig
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I'm having the weirdest sense of deja vu right now," said the green caterpiller. Duh!" said the blue caterpiller. "Do you think, just maybe, that's…
— Frank Beddor
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You predicted quick victory. Now it’s going to get hopelessly complicated. Jesus, don’t you know any better than that by now?
— Jim Butcher
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After a pause, he asked, 'What do you think of Nasuada's plans?' 'Mmm...she's doomed! You're doomed! They're all doomed!'She cackled, doubling over, then straightened abruptly.…
— Christopher Paolini
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Clouds, leaves, soil, and wind all offer themselves as signals of changes in the weather. However, not all the storms of life can be predicted.
— David Petersen
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She had changed him. The ice was in his eyes and in his heart, like he had predicted with that song, but now they were…
— Francesca Lia Block
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But I had no plans to end my own life, and accidents couldn't be predicted. Neither could murder, unless my aunt and uncle were planning…
— Rachel Vincent
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I believe we have all been created for greater things than we can comprehend. The times call for great things, but great things in the…
— Jeffrey R. Holland
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At the beginning of human history, as we struggled to light fires and to chisel fallen trees into rudimentary canoes, who could have predicted that…
— Alain de Botton
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The choices we’re working with here are a block universe, where past, present and future all coexist simultaneously and everything has already happened; chaos, where…
— Audrey Niffenegger
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Human beings, whatever their backgrounds, are more open than we think, that their behavior cannot be confidently predicted from their past, that we are all…
— Howard Zinn
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When Isaiah predicted that spears would become pruning hooks, that's a reference to cultivating. Pruning and trimming and growing and paying close attention to the…
— Rob Bell
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