Predicted Quotations

So many men have so many times predicted the time of the end of the Rebellion, and been mistaken, that I will not do so now; but I can say it will be very soon, if the old regiments are filled up.

Bose-Einstein condensation is one of the most intriguing phenomena predicted by quantum statistical mechanics.

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.

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.

David Lynch plucked me from obscurity. He cast me as the lead in 'Dune' and 'Blue Velvet,' and people have seen me as this boy-next-door-cooking-up-something-weird-in-the-basement ever since. I was 23 when I first met him, in his bungalow on the Universal lot, and could never have predicted we would have such an enduring relationship.

When wireless cellphones first came out, analysts predicted that at peak, it would only replace 5% of landlines. They said the quality wasn't good enough. Clearly that was improved. I think you'll find a similar thing in solar.

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

I couldn't have predicted the business would be worth so much. I could see that we would have this sort of market share, but I didn't realise the numbers would be so large.

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.

Standing beneath the white light of an Apple store is like standing on a Stanley Kubrick movie set. His '2001: A Space Odyssey' predicted Jobs and a future where technology was our friend. Kubrick, of course, didn't like what he saw. And occasionally, I have my doubts.

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.

In the summer of 2009, I modestly predicted that most major news organisations would be charging for content within 12 months. Charging, I argued, would not only plug the revenue gap; it would also help to re-establish value in their news product.

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

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

I can remember back to my early tour days when some fellows didn't think I'd last too long. Nothing physical - they said it was my swing. Some said it was too much of a 'muscle swing' to stand the test of time. One fellow predicted I wouldn't get past 30 out there.

The Planck satellite may detect the imprint of the gravitational waves predicted by inflation. This would be quantum gravity written across the sky.

In 2004, Kucinich was the only presidential candidate who warned that a war in Iraq would be completely disastrous. I remember how mocked he was when he predicted hand-to-hand combat in Baghdad. I remember Candy Crowley, and other reporters as well, treating his views on the impending war as ridiculous, out there, almost insane.

Years ago, I predicted that Iran would take over Iraq. Iran and Iraq used to fight back and forth.

I would defy anybody anybody in this chamber, anybody in Massachusetts to say that the apocalypse has come, yet some have predicted it. Sixty-five-hundred married couples later, the sun still shines in Massachusetts. My coffee does not have curdled milk.

I would have assumed or predicted that the records would have been a little bit different going into this game. I still might have hoped that Green Bay was 1-4, but I would have hoped we were 4-1. But that's not the case. Both teams are starving for a victory. That's all we're trying to concentrate on now, trying to win a game.

I wouldn't have necessarily predicted that at the beginning of the week, ... I didn't know how my game would be. Obviously I am a consistent performer, but the way everything has kind of panned out it's been a good week for me, just trying to win matches and trying to be out there and win and compete when I don't feel like I am playing my best, and looking forward to another opportunity.

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.

No one could have predicted such a monster year, nor anticipated the sustained strength of consumer confidence that fueled the economy. Every indicator points to a leveling-off in early 2000. But, of course, that's what we all said last year.

My early years were hardly a model of focus, discipline, and direction. No one who met me as a teenager could have imagined my going into research and making important discoveries. No one could have predicted the arc of my career.

My concern was it would be subsumed in this very unwieldy bureaucratic entity, ... Most people (now) think what happened was what was predicted would happen.

No one would have predicted in the 1980's that Americans and Russians would be working side-by-side on the ground in Russia destroying thousands of nuclear weapons systems, as well as biological and chemical weapons.

No one would have predicted in the 1980s that Americans and Russians would be working side-by-side on the ground in Russia destroying thousands of nuclear weapons systems, as well as biological and chemical weapons.

Positively, ... Is my budget in jeopardy? Yes. I predicted a $1.80 cost per gallon without predicting gas going up more than 20 cents because of a hurricane.

People were very fond of the project, but nobody could have - or would have - predicted how much of a phenomenon it would become.

Now we don't have to put too much pressure on ourselves. It was good to come on the road and get this win. I don't think anybody predicted where we'd be where we are right now in three years. This is one of the stages we've been trying to get to. Now that we're here, we want to move forward and win a playoff series.

Phil predicted six more weeks of winter. He has a 100-percent record of being right. If you look on the calendar, spring comes six weeks after his prediction. Predicting a mild winter doesn't mean spring gets here any sooner.

I got my predicted grades at school this year and I've told them I aim to keep up that standard while I'm away.

If we had predicted the damage in advance of what Hurricane Wilma would inflict, based on its wind speeds and path, we would have predicted almost exactly the number of poles that failed.

Last year we predicted it would be the fairies, and this year it will still be strong.

Most people predicted this but it wasn't a forgone conclusion.

'Sherlock' is one of the biggest things I will do, ever - we could never have predicted that level of insanity around the series.

Life changed at 40 for me, as predicted by my acting teacher when I was leaving college. I became more hirable and more interesting... I'm not sure why.

Soil scientists predicted this improvement more than a decade ago, ... and it has shown us that following sound science will benefit the health of the forest ecosystems in the long run.

The principal reason we didn't lose out to China as everyone had predicted is because labor in Bangladesh is cheaper than anywhere else in the world.

I couldn't have predicted that a work like 'Death of a Salesman' would take on the proportions it has

I don't think anyone predicted the appeal and the popularity it has grown to. A lot of that has to do with the sophistication and the science and the marketing. It's a game that appeals to those who are very competitive, like being on the edge, the risk, the strategy.

When Howard signed a Sirius deal in October 2004, we had 660,000 subscribers. Analysts' consensus predicted 2 million by 2005, but we are already at 3.3 million. Clearly, this jump can be attributable to Howard.

We're on target for our top-three performance that we predicted at these Games and are striving for.

Hurricane Katrina was probably the last straw. Nobody could have predicted 60-dollar, 70-dollar-a-barrel oil.

He's definitely gotten better. I don't think anyone predicted he would be all-conference. He's improved, worked hard. He'll work. That's the biggest thing and that's going to carry him a long way. I'm proud of him. And I'm proud of Carl and Sam for the honors they received.

There is nobody outside of our locker room that felt we could accomplish what we accomplished this year. There's nobody outside of our locker room that predicted that we could be in the situation that we were in.

We've been through so many threats, we had no clue it was going to get this bad. The last time they had an evacuation, we sat out on our porch and watched people go. We didn't leave until they predicted it would be a level three or four storm.

Looking back, I'm not sure anybody would've predicted such a good rebound after that game.

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

Some of the catastrophic deaths some people have predicted may not have occurred. The numbers, so far, are relatively minor as compared with the dire predictions of 10,000.

Refineries and distributors could have predicted January would be cold, ... There is much more to this than just the cartels.

Our reports from Gordon Blakeley and John Cox were pretty accurate. No one predicted 50 home runs. He lived up to our expectations. We knew we were getting a run producer, someone who would hit 20 home runs and more.

Just exactly like we had kind of predicted that it was going to do. Some have been cleared, but not mine and that's never been cleared.

Larry predicted that the whole world would one day do its computing on very simple, computer boxes without hard drives and without other gadgets on them. And these things would sell for two, three, four hundred dollars and people didn't need all this complex software that Microsoft was selling them for you know, a hundred and ten dollars every two years.

It is difficult to understand the lack of preparedness and the ineffective initial response to a disaster that had been predicted for years and for which specific, dire warning had been given for days.

Just because a county may drop its burn ban, though, doesn't mean that all risk of escaped fires is gone and that residents can throw all caution to the wind with their outdoor burning. With dry weather and gusty winds predicted for most of the week, the risk of grass fires will likely grow with every day that passes without rain.

I thought it went as I predicted the scores would be. Riverhead snuck in there with more guys than I thought they had.

I talk to him all the time, and he gives me his opinions about our situation, ... He might as well be Nostradamus , because he predicted everything Ê that we're going through.

I think they have been seriously disillusioned, but whether it would have been more accurately predicted if I had been in the White House or someone else, I wouldn't claim that at all.

I think there's some encouragement in what we've found in the initial sweeps that some of the catastrophic deaths that some people predicted may not have occurred.

I think we've exceeded the expectations of what we were thought to do. Some predicted us to finish second to last in the conference, but we've shown what we can do, and sometimes we just need the hitting to come around.

It is predicted -- and it's still a rough estimate -- that the number of the victims of dead may be between 1,000 and 2,000,

I take chances. I don't limit myself. I don't think anybody who listens to Boston would have predicted hearing a female rapper on the beginning of the song 'Sail Away.' But that's what fit.

The predicted winner is St. Helena. (Sandler) has won eight league titles in a row, and he works with those kids starting in junior high school. He's built a tremendous program.

Unfortunately, so much of it is exactly what happened. We predicted that people would be trapped in their houses. Sitting on roofs,

We know that there has been some excellent work by governments and nongovernmental organizations in the wake of the tsunami -- the speed and scale of the response meant that lives were saved and many predicted outbreaks of epidemics were contained -- but it is not enough.

We were looking at whether the initial cognitive impairment predicted or was associated with how they improved in terms of their general neurological impairment. It turned out that, at least in this population, it didn't really matter. The rate of improvement was similar, regardless of whether they had a cognitive impairment at baseline or not.

We were very fortunate to come out with a win because (Appleton North is) an exceptional team. Not a bad win for a team predicted to finish ninth.

While the domestics are still spending far more proportionally, the numbers are not as far off as they had been. Our January sales forecast predicted that domestic automakers earned approximately 54 percent market share of new vehicle sales, and that Japanese, European and Korean automakers would earn 35 percent, 6 percent and 5 percent, respectively.

We came into the year predicted to be third in the East. Now we're No. 1 in the SEC, baby.

Today's (consumer confidence) numbers do very little other than to simply confirm what we had predicted some time ago, that a consumer spending slowdown is basically inevitable so long as the employment climate remains as stagnant as it is,

There is money for the west sewer plant. The key point is that everything is on target for us to meet the Oct. 4 predicted date to award a contract to construct the west plant. There's a whole series of hoops that we have to jump through and yesterday was one of that series. We've cleared that hoop and we're still on target.

We predicted and hoped for a race for the ages. And we got one that will never be forgotten by those who saw it.

We predicted in Q1 2005 that debt buyers would generate a significant portion of the total deal volume and value for the year, and that is exactly what happened.

We predicted last year before the budget that growth would out-pace our ability to add deputies.

We predicted we would only find a significant percentage of clay minerals in sediments toward the end of the Precambrian, when complex life arose, while earlier sediments would have less clay content. This test is easier than it sounds. Because clay minerals make up the bulk of sediment deposited today, we are saying that it should be largely absent in ancient rocks. And this is just what one finds.

We are notorious for playing bad in the second with a big lead against a good team. But we didn't lose our composure. No one predicted we'd win by 15. We expected it to be a close game.

What we have seen in the last five or six months here is remarkable. If you had asked me eight months ago, I would have predicted a lot of human cases and poultry outbreaks in Vietnam, but that hasn't happened.

We have been and are probably in the midst of some sort of significant recession, ... The stock market predicted it ? it's already down. Since the market has already priced in the recession, we get these really strong reactions on the upside when there's a glimmer of anything positive.

Wall Street indices predicted nine out of the last five recessions!

Truth of the matter is I don't think anybody could have predicted it. I knew he had a lot of guts and a lot of fight.

What's interesting is you could have showed me an article about 20 years ago in The Washington Post that predicted that Ronald Reagan was a lame duck.

What Major did tonight was no surprise. I almost predicted it if I could have.

We face a timetable that is driven by nature, science and by the predicted effect of climate change on our world, not by our own negotiating processes.

Early in 2004, I predicted that energy's share of the S&P 500's market capitalization would rise from just below 6% at that time to 15% before the end of the decade. In January, its market-cap share was up to 12.1%, while its share of earnings had risen to 9.1% from 6.0% in early 2004.

Could we have predicted in the '60s and '70s the march of technology currently taking place in our world? No one could have predicted the changes we're witnessing today.

Don't expect $2 a gallon anytime soon. Some analysts have predicted $3 a gallon during (summer's) heavy drive season.

While the predictions are all in fun, there is extremely sophisticated math behind them. Of course, we wouldn't advise any studio execs to make decisions based only on our predictions. If a studio does buy one of the films we've predicted to be a hit, our engineers have told me they'd be happy to attend any acquisition parties to provide the irrefutable statistical data to backup the studio's decision.

We've been pretty good. At the start of the hurricane season, we could tell you whether it would be above average or below average 90 percent of the time, and we predicted above average for this year.

These were exaggerations. The market isn't developing to a competitive status nearly as fast as they had predicted and prices are going up for consumers. Consumers are getting the short end because these exaggerations drove Congress to a plan that was premature,

These companies are having a tough time following through with the kind of sales projections they had forecast only months ago, ... No one, including the analysts themselves, had predicted such a significant and all-encompassing slowdown, and there's a lot more to come.

The store will be closed when they do mandatory evacuations, but no, I'm not (evacuating). Of course, I'm a little further away than it's predicted to make landfall,

The problem is that these sources are a big deal at these kinds of noise levels. And unfortunately, none of them are well predicted by simulations. You have to call on the designers' experience.

The problem is that the stock market tends to predict downturns or upturns too early. The common joke is that the stock market predicted 11 out of the last 9 recessions.

The waters in the industrial canal had risen very rapidly ... far above what was ever predicted or anticipated in the area.

It was ultimately fatigue that best predicted which women would develop postpartum depression.

It was a lot closer than it's been. Everybody predicted that we would lose. We knew it was going to be very close. I don't think people realize how good they are-and how good we are. We just have to figure out a way to beat them.

It was wonderful to get out on the field and get out of that gym, we've seen enough of that. The way the weather's been predicted you'd better get outside every chance you get.

U.S. analysts estimate that Russian military expenditures have tripled during the Bush-Putin years, in large measure a predicted reaction to the Bush administration's militancy and aggressiveness.

To many employees, Vista, the Windows update, exemplifies the company's struggles. When the project was conceived half a decade ago, it was envisioned as a breakthrough: an operating system that would transform the way users store and retrieve information. But the more revolutionary features have been dropped, and Vista will arrive three years after researcher Gartner Inc. originally predicted that it would ship. Worse yet, they say, nobody has been held accountable. 'People look around and say: 'What are those clowns doing?'' says Adam Barr, a program manager in the Windows group.