Predicted Quotes

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

I should point out, however, that at first some difficulty was experienced in observing the phenomena predicted by the theory, owing to the extreme smallness of the variations in the period of oscillation.

The process of a date, I think, is terrible. Horrible. Because everything is banal and predicted.

We could see that he was a charismatic guy who jumps over the moon and is very competitive, but nobody could have predicted what he would become to our culture.

No one could have predicted on day one of rehearsals, that a year and a half later we would have shot a film and all be living in New York. It was surreal.

I've never predicted anything. All I have ever said is, that we will do the very best we can.

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 and thus confirms its own 'accuracy.'

Miss Rice talks very tough. We have gotten used to this nonsense. Miss Rice is a bit emotional about this, and we predicted that she would have a more emotional approach to this.

The latest scientific assessment has almost doubled the predicted rate of warming if no changes are made.

Our lives sometimes depend on computers performing as predicted.

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

The increasing frequency of extreme weather events, droughts and floods is in line with what climate scientists have been predicting for decades - and evidence is mounting that what's happening is more severe than predicted, and will get far worse still if we fail to act.

Al and Tommy and I sharing the biggest laugh because it was predicted by everything we did in the first three or four records in my career. It was predicted in the grooves that we would be here sometime later on down the road.

Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation... none was more alarming, from a feminist point of view, than the suggestion that women would eventually become just like men.

We didn't lose as many lives as had been predicted although we're still in the process of finding those we lost.

But nobody predicted anything of this magnitude in terms of resistance. And in part, the magnitude of the resistance was spurred by our failures in reconstruction.

I noticed this process of waking, and predicted with terrifying logic that one of these years not far away I would be awake continuously and never slip back, and never be free of myself again.

If that enabled us to predict the succeeding situation with the same approximation, that is all we require, and we should say that the phenomenon had been predicted, that it is governed by the laws.

There was the scientific and technical progress which couldn't be predicted by the state.

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.

Two years before the last election you nor anyone else would have predicted that Barack Obama was going to get elected president of the United States.

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

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

Many defense experts have predicted that we face no greater threat from a single country than from Iran.

Science is defined in various ways, but today it is generally restricted to something which is experimental, which is repeatable, which can be predicted, and which is falsifiable.

I don't think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough, creative writing programs seem to have been good for fiction, and I would not have predicted that.

At first everyone predicted that it would be impossible to hold these divergent people together, but aside from the skilled men, some of whom belonged to craft unions, comparatively few went back to the mills. And as a whole, the strike was conducted with little violence.

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.

It was a fantastic learning experience and OK, I got slammed because I wasn't Audrey Hepburn but you could have predicted that, really, if you'd opened your eyes wide enough.

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