#foresee

When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments for the Shell oil company, I was frequently reminded of an Arabic saying: 'Those who claim to foresee the future are lying, even if by chance they are later proved right.' ↗

— Vince Cable

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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

#architecture #been #could #foreseen #gothic

For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#environment #himself #his #introvert #never

Everything's not going to go perfect. You're going to have some losses that you're going to have to bounce back from and some things that are a little unforeseen that you're going to have to deal with. ↗

— Tony Dungy

#bounce #deal #everything #go #going

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 feel for strangers on walkers. The deeper love I have for my siblings and friends. The desire to play the mandolin. The gift of a visitation. ↗

— Mary Schmich

#deeper #desire #energy #feel #followed

I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro. This is a passionately racist country; it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#american #committed #continue #country #equality

The future for us is the foreseeable future. The South Asian, however, feels that it is perfectly realistic to think of a 'long time' in terms of thousands of years. ↗

— Edward T. Hall

#feels #foreseeable #foreseeable future #future #however

War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#certain #circumstances #end #human #human wisdom

The dog is almost human in its demand for living interest, yet fatally less than human in its inability to foresee. ↗

— Robert Falcon Scott

#demand #dog #fatally #foresee #human

Good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends. ↗

— Maria Callas

#ends #foresee #good #good teachers #great