Failed Prediction Quotes & Sayings

I'm in love with you, he whispered, searching my eyes. He looked very pale and very scared, and a little ... hopeful. — S.C. Stephens

Swift doth young Love flee, And we stand wakened, shivering from our dream. — George Meredith

I'm the sexiest when I'm happy because it brings out a lot of confidence. — Trina

The truth, it is the invisible tears that are the hardest to wipe away. — Cherry Seniel

Clary wondered how many boyfriends she'd turned into rats by accident.
-Clary to Isabelle, pg.245- — Cassandra Clare

The history of the last half century is accordingly in large measure a history of financial titans, whose methods were not scrutinized with too much care and who were honored in proportion as they produced the results, irrespective of the means they used. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

I'm convinced that before the year 2000 is over, the first child will have been born on the moon. — Wernher Von Braun

Consider just a few of the expressions that fall under the umbrella ARGUMENT IS WAR, collected by the linguist George Lakoff and the philosopher Mark Johnson.
Your claims are indefensible. He attacked every weak point in my argument. His criticisms were right on target. I demolished his argument. I've never won an argument with her. You don't agree? Okay, shoot! If you use that strategy, he'll wipe you out. She shot down all of my arguments.
Or the many variations of LOVE IS A JOURNEY:
Our relationship has hit a dead-end street. It's stalled; we can't keep going the way we've been going. Look how far we've come. It's been a long, bumpy road. We can't turn back now. We're at a crossroads. We may have to go our separate ways. The relationship isn't going anywhere. We're spinning our wheels. Our relationship is off the track. Our marriage is on the rocks. I'm thinking of bailing out. — Steven Pinker

Let us reflect in this way, too, that there is good hope that death is a blessing, for it is one of two things: either the dead are nothing and have no perception of anything, or it is, as we are told, a change and a relocation for the soul from here to another place. — Socrates