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Quotes About Fortune-telling

Throw away the Tarot deck and ignore the astrology column.
~ James Randi
Why don't you come up sometime 'n see me? I'm home every evening. . . . Come up. I'll tell your fortune. . . . Ah, you can be had.
~ Mae West
Granny knew all about bad fortune-telling. It was harder than the real thing. You needed a good imagination.
~ Terry Pratchett
He was also the god of (take a deep breath) commerce, languages, thievery, cheeseburgers, trickery, eloquent speaking, feasts, cheeseburgers, hospitality, guard dogs, birds of omen, gymnastics, athletic competitions, cheeseburgers, cheeseburgers and telling fortunes with dice. Okay, I just tossed in the cheeseburgers to see if you were paying attention. Also, I'm hungry.
~ Rick Riordan
I can do Tarot cards and all that.
~ Gemma Collins
Kendimizi bildik bileli burçlara ve kiÅŸisel fallara merak duymam?z?n nedeni,anla??lma tutkumuzu uyand?r?yor olmalar?d?r.
~ Alain de Botton
The realm of superstitions, fortune-telling, presentiments, intuition, dreams, all this is the inner life of a human being, and all this is the hardest thing to film.
~ Krzysztof Kieslowski
Adah discovered she had a knack for reading people. She took that God-given talent and further developed her observational skills. Everyone had a tell, and she used that more than anything else to survive by fortune-telling.
~ Ann Howard Creel
Long-lived persons have one or two lines which extend through the whole hand; short-lived persons have two lines not extending through the whole hand.
~ Aristotle
The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.
~ Sophocles
When Ted and I begin living together we shall become a team better than Mr. and Mrs. Yeats—he being a competent astrologist, reading horoscopes, and me being a tarot-pack reader, and, when we have enough money, a crystal-gazer.
~ Sylvia Plath
Fortune tellers live in the future. So do people who want to put things off. So do fundamentalists.
~ Ed Seykota
Phil pursed his lips over his fangs. Are you in league with Public Works, do you have any history with zoëtism, fortune telling, or anyone in coterie society? -Does a fing look swart to the zooloofills? Phil stared at her blankly. I have no idea-- -Exactly, she interrupted. 'I don't know what you're talking about either.
~ Mur Lafferty
You can make a good living from soothsaying but not from truthsaying
~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.
~ Sophocles
La mujer barbuda nos lee las manos y predice lo que seremos, aunque no adivina lo que somos.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
England a fortune-telling host, As num'rous as the stars, could boast; Matrons, who toss the cup, and see The grounds of Fate in grounds of tea....
~ Charles Churchill
It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.
~ A. E. Waite
Fortune-telling was quantum betting, a competitive scrying of variably likely outcomes.
~ China Mieville
Fortune-telling doesn't reveal the future; it mirrors the present. It resonates against what your subconscious already knows and hauls it up out of the darkness so you can get a good look at it.
~ Unknown
Framed behind glass is a card from a carnival fortune-telling machine. It promises you are destined to be together forever.
~ Dean Koontz
Why don't you come up sometime and see me?… Come on up, I'll tell your fortune.
~ Mae West
The Bible soundly condemns every form of occult practice (Deuteronomy 18:9-14), which includes modern practices such as fortune-telling, Eastern meditation, reading palms and tarot cards, channeling, astral projection, astrology, Ouija boards, séances, crystal balls, or any other similar activities. Acts 16:16-18 and 19:11-20 link the occult to demonism.
~ Unknown
Fortune-telling doesn't reveal the future; it mirrors the present. It resonates against what your subconscious already knows and hauls it up out of the darkness so you can get a good look at it.
~ Charles de Lint