Quotes About Foretold

For many men that stumble at the threshold are well foretold that danger lurks within.

The moon is dark, and the gods dance in the night; there is terror in the sky, for upon the moon hath sunk an eclipse foretold in no books of men or of earth's gods.

It had always irked me that gods never said, "Next Tuesday, Rajit will be struck with boils in his mouth and choke to death." What good was prophecy if you had to live through the events foretold before you could begin to understand them?

How do you feel about your prophesied destiny? I must know, if I am to compose this epic. Feel? Rand looked around the camp, at the Jindo moving among the tents. How many of them would be dead before he was done? Tired. I feel tired.

Across the nations the stories spread like spiderweb laid upon spiderweb, and men and women planned the future, believing they knew truth. They planned, and the Pattern absorbed their plans, weaving toward the future foretold.

The prophets speak of a Messiah who is the begotten Son of HaShem," Simeon said. "And if they truly spoke for HaShem, then He is coming, just as the prophets foretold. From where is He coming? HaShem knows, and when it is time, He will send Him.

the goal was a mental flash, achieved somewhere below consciousness. In these ideal instants one did not strain toward an answer as much as relax toward it." —Richard Feynman (Nobel Laureate, Physics) "Once the future is foretold, that future becomes a living thing and it will fight very hard to bring itself about." —Stephanie Garber

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

a man always revealed his own inner story in his actions and expressions. A man's past deeds foretold his future and allowed anyone with half a brain to divine the path he would take.

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

paithin- ... he is orn! mother peytin's son, come to lead us to safety! zifnab- thats it! orn, favors his mother- roland- no, he doesnt. look! hes human! wouldnt mother whats- her - name's kid be and elf- wait! i know! he is one of the lords of thillia! come back to us, like the legend foretold! zifnab- that too! i dont know why i didnt recognize him. the spitting image of his father!

The Deus ex Machina should be employed only for events external to the drama, — for antecedent or subsequent events, which lie beyond the range of human knowledge, and which require to be reported or foretold; for to the gods we ascribe the power of seeing all things.

Rigorously independent, the Fremen did not consider themselves true Imperial subjects. They viewed the Harkonnens as interlopers, temporary occupants who would be cast aside one day, in favor of another ruling House. In time, the Fremen themselves would rule here. Their legends foretold this.

Ah yes, now Yoshio remembered the last myth. Three foxes together foretold disaster. And here they were, like three foxes trapped in a hole with disaster just above them.

And as he stood there with Margaret quietly by his side the old and tragic light of fading day shone faintly on their faces, and all at once it seemed to him that they were fixed there like a prophecy with the hills and river all around them, and that there was something lost, intolerable, foretold and come to pass, something like old time and destiny—some magic that he could not say.

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

The Prophecy is not ours. It is the property of history. As it was foretold, so it shall be. First as the future, then as the present when the time is nigh. And after that, with recording, it shall be the sacred past, the saving of the species, the end of the war.

Mira's never wrong. Whatever she showed you tonight, it's fated to be." "Fated", he said, sounding amused by that. "Well, shit. Then I guess we're doomed.

Tis said that Hitler, disturbed by nightmares, called in a soothsayer. The seer consulted a crystal ball and said, "Ah, mighty Führer, it is foretold that you will die on a Jewish holiday." "Which one?" said Hitler with a scowl. "Any day you die will be a Jewish holiday.

Tis said that Hitler, disturbed by nightmares, called in a soothsayer. The seer consulted a crystal ball and said, "Ah, mighty Führer, it is foretold that you will die on a Jewish holiday." "Which one?" said Hitler with a scowl. "Any day you die will be a Jewish holiday." Simchas

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

But who wants to be foretold the weather?  It is bad enough when it comes, without our having the misery of knowing about it beforehand. 

The apostle Paul foretold that, "The time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear" (2 Timothy 4:3).

to meet her fate beneath the rowan trees in the hills near