Quotes About Foretell

Every declaration we make is like a seed planted, whose harvest we can't possibly foretell.

A prophet does not foretell. He warns. A prophet does not speak to predict future catastrophe but rather to avert it. If a prediction comes true it has succeeded. If a prophecy comes true it has failed.

The antimony on their features was set on silvery fire by the intensity of the moon. And their bodies, solid and quivering and half-naked, were like ancient memories of a mystical time without boundaries when it was possible to enter the consciousness of a cornseed and foretell the harvest to come.

Still, the best augurs are those who divine from the portents of the past. They compile phenomenal records.

It's just that, when I'm in Japan I could foretell to a certain degree what would be accepted, so I certainly don't come up with any crazy arrangements.

Predictions of surprising events always prove more accurate if not set down on paper beforehand.

I now prophesy that I will dismember my dismemberer.

The future is not what we make but what we see

if you cannot imagine something, you also cannot predict it, nor protect against it.

The past is the best prophet of the future.

Dreams are rudiments of the great state to come. We dream what is about to happen.''—BAILEY

Soothsayers are like that. They see many futures but never their own.

I dreamed I read the cards for you," she said. "And?" "And I predicted I would bring heartbreak and trouble into your life," she said. "Too late," he said, staring down at their joined hands. "Heartbreak and trouble got there ahead of you.

Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.

Now, at this day in the history of the world we can no more foretell where the end of this slavery agitation will be than we can see the end of the world itself.

I'm not good at relationships I always manage to find the flaws sometimes in others but mostly my own. I foretell the ending then go and create the cause save myself and end up alone

I know neither whence nor from whom it will arise; but one need be no prophet to foretell that the mere weight of a boundless happiness will overpower you. Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.

Every farthing of the cost,All the dreaded cards foretell,Shall be paid, but from this nightNot a whisper, not a thought,Not a kiss nor look be lost.

The cards were scattered on the table, face up, face down, and they seemed to foretell that whatever we did to one another would be washed away by liquor or explained away by sad songs.

If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

Certain signs precede certain events.

Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future; practice these acts. As to diseases, make a habit of two things--to help, or at least to do no harm.

Astrologers that future fates foreshow.

She'll prophesy your death. She won't say when.