#predictions

I think people are going to return to sanity when they see how ridiculous many of these charges are, and how the predictions are not borne out. ↗

— Dixie Lee Ray

#charges #going #how #i #i think

I knew by the signs it would be a hard winter. The hollies bore a heavy crop of berries and birds stripped them bare. Crows quarreled in reaped fields and owls cried in the mountains, mournful as widows. Fur and moss grew thicker than usual. Cold rains came, driven sideways through the trees by north winds, and snows followed. ↗

— Sarah Micklem

#folklore #nature #predictions #weather #winter

We want to get 80%-85% of predictions right, not 100%. Or else we calibrated our estimates in the wrong way. ↗

— Nate Silver

#estimates #get #our #predictions #right

Predictions are preposterous. ↗

— Jackie Mason

#preposterous

As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron. ↗

— H.L. Mencken

#elite #elitism #elitist #meritocracy #politics

There's no point in making predictions. It's not worth speculating because nothing is set in stone and things change all the time in football. Today there are opportunities that no one knows if they will come round again in the future. ↗

— Cristiano Ronaldo

#because #change #come #football #future

Left Behind takes what to some people may be unbelievable predictions from the Bible and shows how they might play out. It makes the events of biblical prophecy understandable and thus believable. ↗

— Jerry B. Jenkins

#believable #bible #events #how #left

I am saying that all predictions concerning climate are highly uncertain. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#climate #concerning #highly #i #i am

Having established that good ideas do indeed come in from the cold, start on the fringes and become mainstream, can we make any predictions about what the next move will be? ↗

— Nigel Farage

#any #become #cold #come #established

If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false. ↗

— M. H. Abrams

#decades #false #having #learn #lived