Many defense experts have predicted that we face no greater threat from a single country than from Iran.
Since the 18th century, many Western intellectuals have predicted religion's imminent demise.
That's the thing about destiny: It can't be predicted, and it's usually pretty odd.
We were extremely prescient in that we predicted the Soviet coup before it happened. That was kind of amazing.
The end of commercial fishing is predicted long before the middle of the 21st century.
According to a new UN report, the global warming outlook is much worse than originally predicted. Which is pretty bad, when they originally predicted it would destroy the planet.
The world wide web has really been quite spectacular and not something I would have predicted.
No one could have predicted the cultural phenomenon 'Twilight' has become.
I always figured I would live long enough to see a black president. The movies predicted it. Usually, Morgan Freeman.
'Sherlock' is one of the biggest things I will do, ever - we could never have predicted that level of insanity around the series.
We found that process praise predicted the child's mindset and desire for challenge five years later.
You can plan, but what happens on a football field cannot be predicted.
It wasn't nice having to work full-time. It's a rise that I wouldn't have predicted, but it's a good example for younger players of what can be achieved.
We find Christ in all the Scriptures. In the Old Testament He is predicted, in the Gospels He is revealed, in Acts He is preached, in the epistles He is explained, and in Revelation He is expected.
History constantly reminds us that in an uncertain world there is no visibility of prospects. Future earnings cannot be predicted with accuracy.
I've never predicted anything. All I have ever said is, that we will do the very best we can.
It is not that Covid is going to impede the progress of humanity. It is not as much a changing event as it was being predicted, according to me.
As much as I think the sports world loves to try to predict everything, there are still some parts of it that can't be predicted.
The whole freedom-of-speech thing is great. But I don't think that our Founding Fathers predicted social media when they created all of these amendments and stuff.
Our lives sometimes depend on computers performing as predicted.
Bose-Einstein condensation is one of the most intriguing phenomena predicted by quantum statistical mechanics.
I looked at 73 climate models going back to 1979 and every single one predicted more warming than happened in the real world.
I'd be kidding if I said that I predicted the financial collapse.
You never know with Punk. He is definitely somebody who does things his own way, and I think the biggest thing is that you can never count out what his next move will be. I think no one would have predicted his move to UFC - nobody would have predicted a lot of things he does - so whatever he chooses to do, he will do what feels best in the moment.
The minute you can be predicted, as a brand, you've got a problem.
No one predicted Mercury would be a planetary core with the mantle stripped off. No one predicted volcanoes on the Jovian moons, or oceans on the inside of them. I can tell you, for every single planet, huge 'we never guessed that' things.
No single piece of macroeconomic advice given by the experts to their government has ever had the results predicted.
When they first installed all-seater stadiums everyone predicted that the fans wouldn't stand for it
Who could have predicted what would happen in the time it takes to boil an egg?
It's a lot of random situations that combine in a certain volatile form and create a bigger-than- the-whole situation that nobody could have predicted.
The process of a date, I think, is terrible. Horrible. Because everything is banal and predicted.
Zero is the number of minutes people predicted I would play my freshman year at Arizona.
In 2004, I predicted in a nationally televised conference in Washington, D.C., that the U.S. would be a Third World country in 20 years.
Nostradamus, who predicted that Billy Bailey would not come home. Never got a dinner!
The latest scientific assessment has almost doubled the predicted rate of warming if no changes are made.
I took a huge risk leaving baseball, because I was predicted to play in the big leagues. I'm kind of a prototypical second baseman.
I never predicted that I'd be a comedian, but it was something that came so naturally to me. I just felt good doing it.
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
Clouds, leaves, soil, and wind all offer themselves as signals of changes in the weather. However, not all the storms of life can be predicted.
I, of course, predicted attempt of Donald Trump impeachment back on November 22nd of 2016 year.
The world is littered with corpses that predicted technology in a particular arena was done. If there's another gigantic step change out there, we don't yet know what it is.
The Planck satellite may detect the imprint of the gravitational waves predicted by inflation. This would be quantum gravity written across the sky.
When Durant was in college, I predicted on 'First Take' he would lead the NBA in scoring and began calling him my favorite player.
I have seen some astrologers who predicted wonderful things; but I have no reason to believe they predicted them only from the stars, or anything of the sort. In many cases it is simply mind-reading. Sometimes wonderful predictions are made, but in many cases it is arrant trash.
To prove that Wall Street is an early omen of movements still to come in GNP, commentators quote economic studies alleging that market downturns predicted four out of the last five recessions. That is an understatement. Wall Street indexes predicted nine out of the last five recessions! And its mistakes were beauties.
The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented.
There's no way anybody could have predicted how fast this industry would take off.
The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented. It was man's ability to invent which has made human society what it is.
nonlinear interactions almost always make the behavior of the aggregate more complicated than would be predicted by summing or averaging.
The stock market has predicted nine of the last five recessions.
The only thing that can be safely predicted is that sometime soon your organization will be challenged to change in ways for which it has no precedent.
We didn't lose as many lives as had been predicted although we're still in the process of finding those we lost.
Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen.
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.
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.
There was the scientific and technical progress which couldn't be predicted by the state.
Email did precisely what I predicted, back in 1978, it took over the postal mail process and system of writing letters.
Evolution can't be predicted, Julian used to tell me; it's a scattershot business; it fires, but it doesn't aim.
In 1936, John Maynard Keynes predicted the 'euthanasia of the rentier' before the end of the 20th century. It did not happen.
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