“ We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee. ”
- Marion Wright Edelman- Copy
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“ For, he that expects nothing shall not be disappointed, but he that expects much — if he lives and uses that in hand day by day — shall be full to running over. ”
- Edgar Cayce- Copy
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“ Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned. ”
- James Baldwin- Copy
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“ What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens. ”
- Benjamin Disraeli- Copy
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“ What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens. ”
- Bill Hoest- Copy
- 337
“ You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect. ”
- Charles Spurgeon- Copy
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“ We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to. ”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes- Copy
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“ She not only expects the worst, but makes the worst of it when it happens. ”
- Michael Arlen- Copy
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“ There are two things in particular that it failed to foresee: one was the coming of the Internet ; the other was the fact that the century would end. ”
- Douglas Adams- Copy
- 3.8K
“ Few can foresee whither their road will lead them, till they come to its end. ”
- J. R. R. Tolkien- Copy
- 665
“ It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck. ”
- Charles Caleb Colton- Copy
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“ Men are always averse to enterprises in which they foresee difficulties. ”
- Niccolo Machiavelli- Copy
- 42
“ Nothing in this world can one imagine beforehand, not the least thing. Everything is made up of so many unique particulars that cannot be foreseen. ”
- Rainer Maria Rilke- Copy
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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. ”
- Lord Clark Kenneth- Copy
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“ Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt which someone else makes for us. ”
- Freya Madeline Stark- Copy
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“ Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not. ”
- Isaac Asimov- Copy
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“ The king-times are fast finishing. There will be blood shed like water, and tears like mist; but the peoples will conquer in the end. I shall not live to see it, but I foresee it. ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
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“ Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized upon by a madness which forced them to commit the very acts which make it certain that what they dread will happen. ”
- Rebecca West- Copy
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“ There is no Gain in the world: so be it: but neither is there any Loss. There is never any failure to this infinite freshness of life, and the ancient novelty is forever renewed. We realize the world better if we imagine it, not as a Progress to Prim Perfection, but as the sustained upleaping of a Fountain, the pillar of a Glorious Flame… ”
- Havelock Ellis- Copy
- 536
“ I'd enjoyed playing the part enormously; it's not often in an actor's career that he gets a plum part like Doctor Who, and to say that I foresaw myself going on a little longer is a bit of an understatement. ”
- Colin Baker- Copy
- 809
“ We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship. ”
- E. M. Forster- Copy
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