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Quotes About Foretelling

that the closed mem6 signified 600 years. But the time was foretold clearly, while the manner was figurative.
~ Blaise Pascal
Just before the doors closed, he said, "We're going to happen, Eva.
~ Sylvia Day
In spite of myself, I gave a snort. Just once, I'd like to hear a simple, straightforward prophecy.
~ Cameron Dokey
Quite the narration in your head, even for a moment, and see for yourself that life is life, and not one minute of it is a retelling or a foretelling. Some things happen; some things don't. That's what makes it all worth seeing, no matter where it goes or how it ends. There is no spinmeister steering it all to a forgone conclusion.
~ Karen Maezen Miller
Prophet of evil,' he cried, 'never have you said a word to my advantage. It is always trouble that you revel in foretelling.
~ Homer
Typically, readers don't get bored because too little is happening but because too little is being promised.
~ Steven James
In this sense, a game's goal is the death of play, the mark of the end, foretelling the moment the magic circle will disappear.
~ Katie Salen
You asked why the rate hate Overlanders so deeply. It is because they know one will be the warrior of the prophecy," said Vikus. "Oh, I see," said Gregor. "So, when's he coming?" Vikus fixed his eyes on Gregor. "I believe he is already here.
~ Suzanne Collins
The harbingers are come. See, see their mark;White is their color, and behold my head.
~ George Herbert
Prophecy is like a half-trained mule," he complained to Jorah Mormont. "It looks as though it might be useful, but the moment you trust in it, it kicks you in the head.
~ George R.R. Martin
Let there be a special place in Hell for pundits who make predictions.
~ Rick Perlstein
It does not pay a prophet to be too specific.
~ L. Sprague de Camp
Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason: their long beards, and pretences to foretell events.
~ Jonathan Swift
If it should seem odd that an action should be deliberately performed in order that a foretelling be vindicated, that is because it is odd.
~ Christopher Hitchens
A prophetic world that can never come true.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Our intention is a foretelling of what we are going to do in any circumstances, but these 'circumstances' affect us in their own way. The 'what' of things lies in us, the 'how' rarely depends on us, and we are not allowed to ask 'why'. We are therefore justly advised to say 'because.
~ Goethe
Iniquity shall be increased above that which now thou see, or that thou hast heard long ago.
~ Compton Gage
'Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore,And coming events cast their shadows before.
~ Thomas Campbell
Your name told you just how your life would go.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Factors are coming together, signs are being fulfilled in concert, in ways that have never happened before.
~ Larry Spargimino
Da Costa was explicit about the dire consequences that would befall the two
~ Laurence Bergreen
As Sausage recounted it in the basement that night, it was as if her own future were being revealed, unrolling itself before her like a carpet, one whose design and weave changed as it stretched out ahead.
~ James McBride
America, too, is a prophecy.
~ Walt Whitman
During the months preceding the trial
~ Charles Martin