Quotes for All
Before reaching the final line, however, he had already understood that he would never leave that room, for it was foreseen that the city of mirrors (or mirages) would be wiped out by the wind and exiled from the memory of men at the precise moment when Aureliano Babilonia would finish deciphering the parchments, and … Read more
The denial of any distinction between foreseen and intended consequences, as far as responsibility is concerned, was not made by Sidgwick in developing any one ‘method of ethics’; he made this important move on behalf of everybody and just on its own account; and I think it plausible to suggest that this move on the … Read more
Story involves action. Action towards an end not to be foreseen (by the reader) but also towards an end which, having been reached, must be seen to have been from the start inevitable. Elizabeth Bowen
[The] impersonal process of the market … can be neither just nor unjust, because the results are not intended or foreseen. Friedrich August von Hayek
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 Stark
There is only one difference between a bad economist and a good one: the bad economist confines himself to the visible effect; the good economist takes into account both the effect that can be seen and those effects that must be foreseen. Frederic Bastiat
He sat a long time and he thought about his life and how little of it he could ever have foreseen and he wondered for all his will and all his intent how much of it was his doing. Cormac McCarthy
A lot of people complain in the year 2003 that it’s not the world of tomorrow as foreseen in the 1950s. ‘Where are the flying cars?’ people say. ‘Where are the robots who bring us blue drinks and warn us of danger?’ Alright. We don’t have those things, specifically, folks, but you know what we … Read more
You are always too late with a development if you are so slow that people demand it before you yourself recognize it. The research department should have foreseen what was necessary and had it ready to a point where people never knew they wanted it until it was made available to them. Charles Kettering
Lighter is the wound foreseen. Cato the Elder