Rumer Godden Quotes

Predictions are preposterous. What usually happens is that people tell you that what they'd like to see happen instead of what they really think will happen. There are so many variations and possibilities that there's no way to ever really know for certain.

You can predict all you want, but everybody knows what predictions get you.

The comedy seeds were planted before the Marine seeds. The thought of comedy never happening was scary. When you have a plan, you never know what will happen.

The future is inherently uncertain.

I had no idea if 'No Roots' was going to work or not.

Best not to anticipate too much ... it jiggles the possibilities.

I've never been able to predict the future of anything.

We certainly will prepare consciously and professionally, but still you cannot predict the future.

I can't predict the future.

You know, there are no guarantees on prognosis.

Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave nether room nor demand for a theory of probabilities.

Sometimes the probabilities are very close to certainties, but they're never really certainties.

I don't think of myself predicting things. I'm expressing possibilities. Things that could happen. To a large extent it's a question of how badly people want them to.

Results are uncertain even among the more experienced photographers.

You don't ever know with films. You just hope for the best, but sometimes it's a bit of a crapshoot.

Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.

I can't predict the future.

A thousand probabilities don't make one fact.

A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.

No one can escape the iron rule that once you make a forecast, you know you're going to be wrong; you just don't know when and in which direction!

It's difficult to talk about the future because you never know.

Nobody knows what will happen in the future.

You never know what's going to happen in the draft. You just wait until your name gets called and then things happen.

Foreseeing the future is always difficult.

I don't like to predict the fights. People can do that. They can predict my fights, but I never do that.