#predicted

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 to find the right words. I succeeded in confusing people. I've made mistakes - that's probably one of them. ↗

— Rowan Williams

#colleagues #confusing #controversy #cut #enormous

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen. ↗

— Earl Wilson

#expert #happen #know #predicted #things

I'd be kidding if I said that I predicted the financial collapse. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

#financial #financial collapse #i #kidding #predicted

The prophets, who were very many, proclaim and declare the one God; for, being filled with the inspiration of the one God, they predicted things to come, with agreeing and harmonious voice. ↗

— Lactantius

#being #come #declare #filled #god

So many of the things I've predicted were technologies that were just sitting right in front of us. ↗

— Joshua Lederberg

#i #just #many #predicted #right

The Commonwealth has had consistently bad press. It was originally seen as a kind of hangover empire. People have long predicted its demise. ↗

— Ben Pimlott

#bad press #commonwealth #consistently #demise #empire

Our lives sometimes depend on computers performing as predicted. ↗

— Philip Emeagwali

#depend #lives #our #our lives #performing

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

#predicted #storm #change

Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#automobile #could #destroy #did #many

I used to work a lot on food issues and every time somebody predicted that production would be inadequate they got egg on their face a year or two later. ↗

— Susan George

#every #every time #face #food #got