Predicting Quotations

Insofar as international law is observed, it provides us with stability and order and with a means of predicting the behavior of those with whom we have reciprocal legal obligations.

I typically don't get into predicting the success of my projects. I've been involved with a lot of projects that I thought should have really gained notoriety and furthered my career, only to be met with the cold grasp of disappointment. So I typically stay away from predicting how a film will do.

I find that predicting the course of our lives is like predicting the weather. You might be able to predict your future in the short term, but the longer you look ahead, the less likely you are to be correct.

Predicting what content is going to fly is like looking into a crystal ball. I try not to say, 'Yeah, 'Bridesmaids' opened the door to make more movies about women.' I mean, did it? I don't know; where are they?

I've become increasingly fascinated with social media to improve on traditional ways of preparing for and predicting the future.

I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational.

Being around a church culture, even leading a gathering of believers, I've gotten pretty good at predicting what's going to happen in a church service.

I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors.

Trying to understand the way nature works involves a most terrible test of human reasoning ability. It involves subtle trickery, beautiful tightropes of logic on which one has to walk in order not to make a mistake in predicting what will happen. The quantum mechanical and the relativity ideas are examples of this.

To tell you the truth, there are all these websites predicting my early death, and it's starting to work on me!

I'm a historian. The act of predicting the future discomfits me, in any event - and the bigger the prediction, the more distrusting I am.

I think I do have a way of predicting - not always accurately - what is a nerve-wracking day for actors, what may be a difficult scene or a difficult moment, how small - and it may be down to one line - a thing maybe that is upsetting or undermining a performance.

We had been predicting home price increases would slow down. Now they won't slow as quickly.

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.

Neither of us is predicting there will be an agreement by Tuesday, but what we have seen over the past 24 hours is substantial movement,

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.

Right now, at this point, we're predicting a savings of $8 million to $10 million (statewide).

I don't expect that the economy is going to come roaring back in one quarter. I think it's going to be a very gradual and gentle recovery. And the fact is, we don't have a way of predicting this with any certainty.

I believe there is true expertise in some endeavors, and not in others. There is obviously no such thing as expertise in predicting the results of coin tosses, but there is expertise in predicting the behavior of lasers.

I don't know much about how it was before I got here, but I can tell you we have a real good team and that creates a buzz. I feel pretty good about our chances. I'm not good at predicting anything, and after you spend a little time in the game you realize expectations don't mean nothing. I want to go to Spring Training and get in the winning mode. I want to meet some of the guys I've never met and try to see what we can do as a team and what we can't do and find a way we can complement each other.

I don't know what's going to happen. You never know. I can't put my faith in any team. You have to be alert for all things. I'm just playing it by ear and I'm not predicting anything.

With many predicting a decline in gas prices over coming months, we will hold off on setting the 2006 rate until closer to January.

Humans are terrible at predicting the future. We really overestimate what we can do in the short term and underestimate what we can do in the long term... If we can glimpse even a couple of years into the future, even that's difficult to do.

If we were to see an abrupt change in exchange rates, we might expect there might be some change in that. But again, I don't think anybody's predicting any kind of abrupt change.

He might win a batting title one day. I'll go on record as predicting that.

We're predicting that if fuel prices remain around these sorts of levels, then it could have an impact of around 40 percent on our after-tax profit.

We're predicting that sales are going to be up about 4 percent this year, and that is a little bit on the low side. That compares to about 5 percent last year. But clearly, we are looking for a decent holiday season.

March numbers are pretty good at predicting upcoming activity. We figure that sales will be good but not spectacular on into the summer and that price increases will stay below 10 percent. We'll probably have a couple of months with new price peaks, but those new records will be reached at a slower rate of appreciation.

That ain't bad. In our humble forecasting, we've been predicting a gradual decrease in unemployment. Business executives have been reporting to us they feel as though their region is coming out of a slow-growth business environment. It's not rampant optimism, but for the fi rst time in a number of years, executives from every corner of the state are showing more optimism for growth.

Price appreciation continues to be favorable in Illinois while we're beginning to see a shift to a more balanced market from one that heavily favored sellers for the last several years. We are predicting a solid year for Illinois. Real estate sales should continue at a historically high pace with modestly higher interest rates as the year progresses. Strong demand fundamentals remain in place for the Illinois housing market.

People have been predicting the demise of the PC for years and have been wrong for years,

Juries tend to be offended by the idea that consultants are watching their every move and predicting how they are thinking. Nobody likes feeling manipulated.

I wonder if it's going to be a test too far. They're changing the length, the range and the format all at once, so it could prompt the same kind of backlash among students and admissions offices alike as the new SAT has. It's true that the old test didn't do a good job of predicting graduate school performance, but when you add in everything everybody asks for, you get a camel ù a camel being a horse built by committee.

It drives coaches crazy because there's no predicting that stuff, ... That's why I have no hair. ... This is a nice win, but it's one win.

I think we took to heart some of the criticism of our league and the fact that no one was predicting us to win. Basically, we were playing in their home environment, their home state.

Trends in January and February are notoriously bad at predicting upcoming activity. Is the market taking a breather? Or is it starting to tumble? It's impossible to say, there's nothing really ominous in the numbers, but we won't know for another couple of months.

We had no way of predicting it would be taken out of context, but again, understanding that it was, we're sorry if that was the case, and that's why we chose to no longer run it.

Unfortunately, we are continuing the bad news by predicting above-average activity for September and October.

We are in many ways in uncharted territory, as far as predicting his recovery.

We have been warning about these things for a long time and haven't gotten far. We were predicting overtopping of the levees on Saturday. If you look at some of those animations on our Web site, it's pretty chilling.

We are not talking about a collapse next year or a recession, but we are predicting a pretty significant fall in prices.

We are not very good at looking at people when they are 16 and predicting what they will be like when they are 30. We know there is a huge drop in violent crime after age 24 or 25.

We have a very nervous investment environment. The excuse is bond rates are up and there is increased concern about the financial futures market, which appears to be predicting three more rate hike for the Fed funds.

While you might not expect it, predicting whether a movie is good or bad is a lot like determining whether an email message is spam or not.

We're good at forecasting paths of hurricanes, but we're not as good at predicting intensity and the impact. Take Katrina. There was a massive migration of human capital out of a region. What are the long-term effects?

We're heading into what is expected to be our worst year on record. We're predicting a 20 percent loss in production, which is equal to $100 million.

We are continuing the bad news by predicting above-average activity for September and October. This year should be one of the most active and is already the most destructive hurricane season on record,

We plan to be a significant player in the online music retail arena. The online music business has proven to be viable, with analysts predicting steady growth. We are in an enviable position to capture market share due to our ability to leverage the established brands and built-in customer base of Trans World 's retail stores.

We are not predicting that the rating phenomenon will remain as high as it was, but nevertheless we did bring in substantial advertising revenue from it. We believe that the show is still and will continue to be strong.

We are seeing smaller increases in both than we have previously. But it can be a gradual process. We are predicting and we are going out on a big limb here a slowing of the increases, possibly leading even to a decline in the future.

The data that we're going to gather is key to predicting solar activity and how that affects life on Earth and astronauts in space.

The factors that we find predicting loneliness are the factors that lead to a disruption of your social relationships.

There are many methods for predicting the future. For example, you can read horoscopes, tea leaves, tarot cards, or crystal balls. Collectively, these methods are known as "nutty methods." Or you can put well-researched facts into sophisticated computer models, more commonly referred to as "a complete waste of time.

We're not predicting that we're just saying that's possible.

We're not good at predicting rapid intensification, but that's a real possibility. There's not a lot of wind shear, and it's going over real warm waters, so people need to pay attention and prepare. Not panic.

We're basically going to see how accurate a company is at predicting its own earnings.

Because it is moving and because we believe wild birds are implicated, predicting where it's going to flare up next is a very tricky thing to do, and being able to know the scale of the flare-up is also quite tricky.

There have been hundreds of papers on subjects from picking students for a school to predicting the survival of cancer patients.

The tragedy of Katrina wasn't the failure to predict the track or to predict the intensity of the storm. The tragedy was in preparing people and in particular predicting human behavior.

We've been predicting this will overtake print books in about 10 years. In the first six months it will be a very small part of Steve's business. But three to five years out we see a billion-dollar marketplace.

As soon as they start predicting a storm, people call and it seems that these storms are coming one after the other.

What creates dispair is the imagination, which insists on predicting millions of moments, thousands of days, and so drains you that you cannot live the moment at hand.

There is no hope of accurately predicting the intensity change of a hurricane without accurately being able to predict and forecast the conditions in the upper ocean.

We are still on standby, ... With the storm this close off the coast, we have no choice. Forecasters are predicting it will head off to the northeast, but if it turns our way we will have very little time to notify residents.

Prices could remain well above $40 a barrel for a considerable period of time, but predicting the future is a dangerous game, and we prefer to test long term investments on the basis of prices of not more than $25 a barrel.

Unfortunately, hurricane and severe weather experts are predicting another very active hurricane season.

Automotive execs in our survey have been predicting market share advances by Asian brands for years now. Asian brands have been successful at bringing the right product to the market quickly while being flexible in their manufacturing processes to respond to changes in demand.

Automotive executives in our survey have been predicting market share advances by Asian brands for years now.

Although predicting the motion of a particular star is hard over a long period, many astronomers seek to model the general motion of stars around the galaxy.

Although we had previously been predicting falling mid-year oil prices, all bets will remain firmly off until a clearer picture emerges with respect to Iran.

Predicting and understanding space weather will soon be even more vital than ever before.

Predicting macroeconomic events like that is not what we try to do,

Predicting the long-awaited U.S. economic slowdown can be a risky business,

Predicting what is going to happen in the next month is difficult. Prices probably will go up just because troubles in the Gulf (of Mexico) have driven up prices worldwide.

Essentially, if we deem the administrator has not performed his duties adequately, which I'm not predicting or hoping will happen, our only option is to release him at that point or pay him the money.

This case is extremely complex and confusing. Nobody is predicting that it is going to be resolved quickly.

In many ways, we are in uncharted territory in predicting his recovery. The long-term outlook will be measured in weeks and months and not days.

After the United States created more than 2 million jobs in 2005, economists are predicting 2 million more will be added in 2006. Faced with increased competition for talent with specialized skills, companies are planning to shorten the hiring cycle, offer better compensation packages and implement more flexible work arrangements in the coming year.

The NBA said we'll be announcing it at the end of the month, and I'm predicting a few days after that. The end of the month is not until Tuesday, I think, so just hold your breath until then.

I'm not predicting a double-dip recession, but the odds of it have gone up. Instead of 5 percent, there's maybe a 15 or 20 percent chance of it now.

I'm not predicting anything but for us to go out there and play to our potential and that's what we're gearing ourselves to do. Who knows which way the game is going to go and how it's going to flow and what's going to happen? We need to go out there and play good football, play to our potential and keep building on the positive things we've done in the season.

I'm not going to get into dissecting election results or predicting the future.

Stocks have basically been predicting the economic slowdown since January and we've seen that anticipated weakness in the recent numbers.

A Roth 401(k) or a Roth IRA takes the uncertainty out of predicting the future.

The kids going (today) have an uphill battle. That was a huge pillar we lost. But he's a 17-year-old kid and predicting what they'll do is like playing the stock market.

In 2004, just 54% of contractors were predicting their earnings to rise, while 20% were predicting a fall in earnings, compared to only 3% now. For the last few years public sector IT spending has been a substitute for subdued spending in the private sector - but 2006 is set to be a year of strong growth across the board.

I think our kids are confident. They look forward to playing and they think they can win. That's not cocky at all. We're not predicting victory by any means, but I think we'll be confident. This will be the best team we play all year long by far, so we'll know our strengths and weaknesses.

I heard people before the season predicting that if he had 60 points, it would be a good year, so he went beyond everyone's expectations.

I stopped predicting the future a long time ago.

It was a member of the press, the publisher of the Punxsutawney Spirit. He's one of the gentlemen who spun it into Phil predicting the length of winter.

It's certainly part of our cultural heritage, ... We've been predicting for a while that by 2015, 60 to 70 per cent of the Canadian retail sector will be foreign-controlled.

It's certainly part of our cultural heritage. We've been predicting for a while that by 2015, 60 to 70 per cent of the Canadian retail sector will be foreign-controlled.

The British, he thought, must be gluttons for satire: even the weather forecast seemed to be some kind of spoof, predicting every possible combination of weather for the next twenty-four hours without actually committing itself to anything specific.

The index suggests that the consensus economic forecasts predicting slower growth for the first half of 1999 will be wrong again. We look for growth in Gross Domestic Product to keep running above 3 percent until at least mid-year.

The country's 7.25% short term rates - the highest in the industrialized world - are choking economic demand with many analysts now predicting the possibility of a recession in 2006.

You've got some pretty learned people right now predicting a Fed pause.

The economy is showing signs of a broader recovery. I'm predicting rates will be unchanged for the rest of the year. There's a likelihood the next move may be up.

The challenge of predicting terrorism is that unlike fraud, we don't have the same volume of historical data to learn from. Compounding this is the fact that terrorists are constantly changing their methods and do their best to avoid leaving any digital footprints in the first place.

The cynics were predicting that by taking a year off, which obviously is something nobody wanted to do, we would have destroyed our following and our fans would never come back,

This has limited impact in predicting the potential impact of the limit in the future,