Albert Camus

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

French Philosopher

Xenophon

Let a man sow a field or plant a farm never so well, yet he cannot foretell who will gather in the fruits; another may build him a house of fairest proportion, yet he knows not who will inhabit it.

Greek Soldier

Winston Churchill

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.

British Statesman

Willa Cather

Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement.

American Author

Johnny Lever

When I take up a project, I'm not foretold its fate... I don't know whether the film will shape up well or not.

Indian Actor

Garet Garrett

Loyalty of the law-making power to the executive power was one of the dangers the political fathers foretold.

American Journalist

George Linnaeus Banks

I live to hail that season by gifted one foretold, when men shall live by reason, and not alone by gold.

English Writer

Dmitri Mendeleev

Certain characteristic properties of elements can be foretold from their atomic weights.

Russian Scientist

Maureen O'Hara

My whole life was foretold to me. An old Romany gypsy read my fortune.

Irish Actress

Mickey Hart

American Musician

Use 'foretell' when talking about events expected to happen in the future, not past events.

Future Events

'Foretell' does not mean the event will definitely happen; it implies a prediction or expectation.

Not Certainty

'Foretell' is common in mythical, fantastical, or literary contexts, less so in everyday conversation.

Often Fictional

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The rise of human-compute...

 through all available data from very different sources, identifying key relationships and putting them in one place, something that's been nearly impossible to do before. To some, this has terrifying privacy and civil liberties implications. To others it foretells of an era of greater privacy and civil liberties protections,

Shyam Sankar: The rise...

 Zoroastrians viewed them as spirits whose cries told of the cosmic struggle between darkness and light. Romans brought them on their military campaigns to foretell the success of future battles. And today, this bird still occupies an important, though much less honorable position

History through the eyes...

 choices how do you I mean I have choices too but they're very very different and they're mostly concerning life death comfort lack of comfort here it's you you're choosing so much round and round the ball will spin till it draws your good luck in I can foretell for you good

Santa Monica Pier PIPE Sue...

 storytellers have continued to share their visions of the future and correctly predicted many aspects of the world we inhabit decades later. In "Brave New World," Aldous Huxley foretold the use of antidepressants in 1932,

How science fiction can...

 Peseshet explains her fail-safe pregnancy plant two one barley, one emmer. Then, urinate on the seeds every day. If the plants grow, she’s pregnant. A barley seedling predicts a baby boy, while emmer foretells a girl.

A day in the life of an...

 He said, and I quote, "The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present and foretell the future. Must mitigate these things with two special objects in view with regard to disease.

Shweta Narayan: It's...

 anjaii devil itself came into the dance very fierce some magical devil that has the gift of foretelling the future but we were able to produce some magic of our own a while a dance had been going

Listening To Recorded...

 to hear a distant train coming by listening under the water we can actually hear much more clearly that melting sound of the ice which which foretells the sea level is rising

The warning sounds of a...

 and that, with the presence and help of people like you here, we can bring about the prophecy of Isaiah. For he foretold of a period