I make a prediction here and now, and, my friends, I want you to watch the proceedings of Congress in these coming weeks of this extra session, or of the next regular session, to see whether I am right or not.
The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
What men have seen they know; But what shall come hereafter No man before the event can see, Nor what end waits for him.
The future is like smoke from a burning forest, waiting for the wind of specific events and personal courage to blow the sparks and embers of reality this way or that.
The events of future history ... will be of the same nature—–or nearly so—–as the history of the past, so long as men are men.
Let no man seek Henceforth to be foretold that shall befall Him or his children.
You never know what could happen.
I don't care what happens in 100 years. I won't be around.
I can never predict what's going to happen.
It is not possible to rule out anything because we don't know what will happen.
Everyone who wants to know what will happen ought to examine what has happened: everything in this world in any epoch has their replicas in antiquity.
The future you shall know when it has come; before then, forget it.
The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
Journalism has become the art of "intelligent anticipation of events."
If good things are coming, they will be a pleasant surprise," said the seer. "If bad things are, and you know in advance, you will suffer greatly before they even occur.
Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.
And tomorrow--who knows what happens? Do you get it? I don't know and no one knows--it's all unknown! You understand, that this is the end to the Known? This is the new, the improbable, the unpredictable.
I am not a prophet; I cannot predict what will happen.
The important thing to remember is war does not progress linearly. The future course of events is going to be very difficult to predict with a high degree of precision.
I have seen the future, and it is still in the future.
So often do the spiritsOf great events stride on before the eventsAnd in today already walks tomorrow
We know from chaos theory that even if you had a perfect model of the world, you'd need infinite precision in order to predict future events. With sociopolitical or economic phenomena, we don't have anything like that.
Newspapers tell beforehand what is going to happen - maybe.
One would appear ridiculous who would say, that it is only probable the sun will rise to-morrow, or that all men must die; thoughit is plain we have no further assurance of these facts than what experience affords us.
I have lived: tomorrow the Father may fill the sky with black clouds or with cloudless sunshine.
