Foresaw Quotes

#1. In this sense, what Hakluyt foresaw in a colonized America was one giant workhouse. This cannot be emphasized enough.

Nancy Isenberg

#2. And I foresaw obscurely that I was destined to become the most wretched of human beings.

Mary Shelley

#3. What we strive to restore and re-animate will never come from the promises of the middle class politicians, but will come instead from the spirit of the last Delphic prophecy, which foresaw that, 'One day Apollo will return and it will be forever'.

Guillaume Faye

#4. Manipulations of opinion, insofar as they are inspired by well-defined interests, have limited goals; their effect, however, if they happen to touch upon an issue of authentic concern, is no longer subject to their control and may easily produce consequences they never foresaw or intended.

Hannah Arendt

#5. What has happened over the ensuing two millennia is that we who confess Christ have deftly (and mostly unconsciously) crafted a religion that neatly separates the Jesus who died on the cross for the radical ideas he preached - ideas that Jesus foresaw would lead to his crucifixion.

Brian Zahnd

#6. We remake the world through our technologies, and these in turn remake and extend us, in ever spiraling lattices of complexity. McLuhan uncannily foresaw the future, where electronic technology would shape and expand cultures and societies into a global membrane of communications.

B.W. Powe

#7. The calendar hath not an evil day
For souls made one by love, and even death
Were sweetness, if it came like rolling waves
While they two clasped each other, and foresaw
No life apart.

George Eliot

#8. I often think, that she foresaw only the end times, never hot dogs.

Karen Russell

#9. My father, a wise and grave man, gave me serious and excellent counsel against what he foresaw was my design.

Daniel Defoe

#10. AMA report both confirmed the public health benefits of legal abortion and foresaw the public health danger of legislative attempts to turn back the clock on American women.

David A. Grimes, M.D.

#11. Kerouac was the cowboy that inspired the whole Beat Generation, and highlighted and put the spotlight on all of these minds that didn't really know what they were doing at the time, but accomplished something much bigger than what they ever foresaw.

Garrett Hedlund

#12. He foresaw my every fall, my every sin, my every backsliding; yet, nevertheless, fixed His heart upon me.

Arthur W. Pink

#13. As a university student, I tried hard to write poems in Korean. It was at that time that I foresaw my death and the world's death. I think my poems started at that time.

Kim Hyesoon

#14. Datum: At least one-third of ancient rulers' seers and magicians were in fact fired or killed early in their tenure because it emerged that the bulk of what they foresaw or intuited was irrelevant. Not incorrect, just irrelevant, pointless.

David Foster Wallace

#15. In 1840 I was called from my farm to undertake the administration of public affairs and I foresaw that I was called to a bed of thorns. I now leave that bed which has afforded me little rest, and eagerly seek repose in the quiet enjoyments of rural life.

John Tyler

#16. I originally invested in Dropcam because I foresaw what the company and their products could do for consumers and the industry. I've been deeply impressed with what they've done in such little time, and I'm confident that they'll continue to exceed my expectations.

Mitch Kapor

#17. Pierre little foresaw that this world hath a secret deeper than beauty, and Life some burdens heavier than death.

Herman Melville

#18. They christened the child, whereat he wept and made a grimace, as though he foresaw that he was to be a titular councillor. In

Nikolai Gogol

#19. Hitler [had an] excess of imagination, which very frequently foresaw what would happen but also very often went astray.

Alfred Jodl

#20. God did not elect any sinner because He foresaw that he would believe, for the simple but sufficient reason that no sinner ever does believe until God gives him faith; just as no man sees until God gives him sight. Sight is God's gift, seeing is the consequence of my using His gift. So

Arthur W. Pink

#21. Even though the society that Marx foresaw is far from being an historical reality, Marxism has penetrated so deeply in history that we are all Marxists, one way or another, even unknowingly.

Octavio Paz

#22. God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain.

C.S. Lewis

#23. Eons ago, the creative genius of God foresaw that it would take the shattered pieces of my 'yesterday' to construct the sturdy portal to my 'tomorrow.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#24. He foresaw that she would be very much more useful to him in the character of a free woman.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#25. He foresaw the platooning that managers like Casey Stengel used years before it happened. He told me I had to be a switch-hitter if I was going to play.

Mickey Mantle

#26. Few of these forecasts came true. On the other hand, nobody foresaw the Internet.

Yuval Noah Harari

#27. The Convention probably foresaw what it has been a principal aim of these papers to inculcate that the danger which most threatens our political welfare is, that the state governments will finally sap the foundations of the Union.

Alexander Hamilton

#28. I foresaw the financial crisis. I get messages in my sleep, in pictures and words. I understood that I have a mission and a role in ensuring human existence. I received a message that people would soon start to go crazy.

Shari Arison

#29. What we look for does not come to pass; God finds a way for what none foresaw.

Euripides

#30. And through the heat of conflict keeps the law In calmness made, and sees what he foresaw.

William Wordsworth

#31. How childish is the attempt to meet this argument by the following sophism! "We were chosen because we were worthy, and because God foresaw that we would be worthy." We

John Calvin

#32. I clutched the leg of the table again immediately, and pressed it to my bosom as if it had been the companion of my youth and friend of my soul. I foresaw what was coming, and I felt that this time I really was gone.

Charles Dickens