Prophecy Quotes - Page 10

• I'm seeing myself as an outsider a little bit - definitely when I started the band. I knew what band's name meant and nobody else really did, so I'd be on stage every night and say, "Hello, we're Art Brut" - basically saying that we were rejects. But I mean, I didn't really sing, it did feel a bit like we were outsiders. It was a bit tongue-in-cheek when I first named the band that, but then we slowly turned into that - like a self-fulfilling prophecy.

  Eddie Argos

  Art, Mean, Night

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Over our manhood bend the skies; Against our fallen and traitor lives The great winds utter prophecies; With our faint hearts the mountain strives, Its arms outstretched, the druid wood Waits with its benedicite And to our age’s drowsy blood Still shouts the inspiring sea.

  James Russell Lowell

  Nature, Heart, Blood

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.117

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• When philosophic reason is clear and certain by intuition or necessary induction, no subsequent revelation supported by prophecies or miracles can supersede it.

  John Adams

  Miracle, Intuition, Atheism

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1856). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.85

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• The law of self-fulfilling prophecy says that you get what you expect. So why not create great expectations and the highest vision possible of yourself and your world?

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Self, Law, Expectations

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• For ages the world has been living by the stupidity of an old Roman adage that says if you want peace, prepare for war. As if anything said in ancient times must be wise, people have used this phrase to justify some of the most unjustifiable arms build-ups, which, far from creating peace, has only become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

  Oscar Arias

  Wise, War, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event.

  George Gissing

  Events, Way, Calamity

  George Gissing (2016). “The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft”, p.90, The Floating Press

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• Each morning we sat reading our copy of the New York Times, the Washington Post or the Los Angeles Times and ruminated on their prophecies of doom and quagmire. Then we looked up to see, on television, correspondents actually embedded with our troops, reporting quick advances, one- sided firefights, melting opposition and, finally, welcoming crowds.

  Dick Morris

  Morning, New York, Reading

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• One of my optimistic prophecies is based on the assumption that machines could have the best algorithms in the universe, but it will never have purpose. And the problem for us to explain purpose to a machine is because we don't know what our purpose is. We have the purpose, but we still ... When we look at this global picture, a universal picture, to understand what is our purpose being here on this planet? We don't know.

  Garry Kasparov

  Optimistic, Purpose, Assumption

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• 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

  Hate, Believe, Eye

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• Some of us must wait for the best human gifts until we come to heavenly places. Our natural desire for musical utterance is perhaps a prophecy that in a perfect world we shall all know how to sing.

  Lucy Larcom

  Perfect, Waiting, Musical

  Lucy Larcom (1961). “A New England girlhood”

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• Skepticism about the potential to achieve the kinds of breakthroughs we need has been a self-fulfilling prophecy.

  Ted Nordhaus

  Self, Needs, Kind

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• The wonders of nature call to you. The promises and prophecies of Scripture speak to you. God himself reaches out to you.

  Max Lucado

  Promise, Scripture, Wonder

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Isaiah the prophet, Isaiah's second son was - his symbolic name was Mahershalalhashbaz. And Isaiah was - the Prophet Isaiah was instructed to write the name in all capital letters as a prophecy. And it means hasten to the spoils, speedy as the prey.

  Mahershala Ali

  Writing, Mean, Son

  Source: www.npr.org

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• God has not given us Bible prophecy to Scare us but to Prepare us.

  Joel C. Rosenberg

  Scare, Given, Bible Prophecy

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• A single, one-dimensional way of thinking has created a monoculture of the mind. And the monoculture of the mind has become a self-fulfilling prophecy. This is the root of why we have pitted equity against ecology and sustainability against justice.

  Vandana Shiva

  Thinking, Self, Roots

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• The multitude always strains after rarities and exceptions, and thinks little of the gifts of nature; so that, when prophecy is talked of, ordinary knowledge is not supposed to be included. Nevertheless it has as much right as any other to be called Divine.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Thinking, Littles, Ordinary

  "Theological-Political Treatise". Book by Baruch Spinoza, Ch. 1, Of Prophecy, 1670.

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• Nostradamus himself confessed that the vague manner in which he wrote his "prophecies" was so that 'they could not possibly be understood until they were interpreted after the event and by it.'

  James Randi

  Events, Understood, Vague

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• I gave no prescriptions,
  And those who have taken my moods for prophecies
  Mistake the matter.

  Louis Simpson

  Mistake, Taken, Ignorance

  Louis Simpson (2003). “The Owner of the House: New Collected Poems, 1940-2001”, p.195, BOA Editions, Ltd.

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• Once I prophesied that this generation of Americans had a rendezvous with destiny. That prophecy now comes true. To us much is given; more is expected. This generation will nobly save or mainly lose the last best hope of earth. The way is plain, peaceful, generous just. A way, which if followed, the world will forever applaud, and God must forever bless.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Destiny, Forever, Peaceful

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• Prophetic utterance, like poetic utterance, transforms experience and moves the receiver to new attitudes. The kinds of experience--the recognitions or revelations--out of which both prophecy and poetry emerge, are such as to stir the prophet or poet to speech that may exceed their own known capacities; they are "inspired," they breathe in revelation and breathe out new words; and by so doing they transfer over to the listener or reader a parallel experience, a parallel intensity, which impels that person into new attitudes and new actions.

  Denise Levertov

  Attitude, Moving, Poetry

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• The legislator must be in advance of his age.
  Across the mind of the statesman flash ever and anon the brilliant, though partial, intimations of future events.... Something which is more than fore-sight and less than prophetic knowledge marks the statesman a peculiar being among his contemporaries.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Sight, Mind, Age

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1994). “Papers”

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• An equation is a prophecy that always comes true.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Equations

  Catherynne M. Valente (2015). “The Boy Who Lost Fairyland”, p.131, Macmillan

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• It is no madness to say
  you will fall, you great cities.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Fall, Cities, Madness

  Hilda Doolittle (1998). “Trilogy”, p.54, New Directions Publishing

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• Every single work of art is the fulfillment of a prophecy; for every work of art is the conversion of an idea into an image.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Ideas, Fulfillment

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “De Profundis”, p.28, Trajectory Inc

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• The blood weeps from my heart when I do shape,
  In forms imaginary, th' unguided days
  And rotten times that you shall look upon
  When I am sleeping with my ancestors.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Sleep, Blood

  William Shakespeare (2016). “King Henry IV Part 2: Third Series”, p.363, Bloomsbury Publishing

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