Prophecy Quotes - Page 6

• God doesn't bribe, child. He just makes a sign and lets people take it as they will.

  Stephen King

  Children, People, Bribe

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• In every crowd are certain persons who seem just like the rest, yet they bear amazing messages.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Messages, Bears, Crowds

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• I believed in immaculate conception and spontaneous combustion. I believed in aliens from outer space and vampires, prophecy, and the resurrection of the dead. I had deja vu many times each day. I was thirteen.

  Kate Braverman

  Space, Vampire, Each Day

  Kate Braverman (1998). “Small Craft Warnings: Stories”

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• Everytime you read, you are walking among the dead, and, if you are listening, you just might hear prophecies.

  Kathy Acker

  Listening, Might, Walking

  Kathy Acker (1997). “Bodies of Work: Essays”, Serpents Tail

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• And my fear of failure has been lifelong and deep. If you are what you do- and I think my parents may have accidentally given me this idea- and you do poorly, what then? It’s over; you’re wiped out. All those prophecies you heard in the dark have come true, and people can see the real you, see what a schmendrick you are, what a fraud.

  Anne Lamott

  Real, Dark, Thinking

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• I tried to imagine how things could get much worse. The gods were in the Midwest fighting a huge monster that had almost defeated them once before. Poseidon was under siege and losing a war against the sea Titan Oceanus. Kronos was still out there somewhere. Olympus was virtually undefended. The demigods of Camp Half-Blood were on our own with a spy in our midst. Oh, and according to the ancient prophecy, I was going to die when I turned sixteen—which happened to be in five days, the exact same time Typhon was supposed to hit New York. Almost forgot that.

  Rick Riordan

  New York, War, Fighting

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• If I speak in the tongues of men and of angles, but am note nice, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but am not nice, I am nothing. If I give all I posses to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but am not nice, I gain nothing.

  Benjamin Carson

  Nice, Moving, Men

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• OUR ORDINATION: Sir Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1747 About the times of the End, a body of men will be raised up who will turn their attention to the prophecies, and insist upon their literal interpretation, in the midst of much clamor and opposition.

  Isaac Newton

  Men, Attention, Body

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• The vampire bible, bound in human skin, written in blood, and full of prophecies that were never wrong. Trouble was, if you read the thing too long, it drove you nuts. Not "I'm having a bad day and feel bitchy" nuts or PMS nuts. "I think I'll commit felony assault on my friends and rape my boyfriend" nuts.

  MaryJanice Davidson

  Bad Day, Thinking, Blood

  MaryJanice Davidson (2006). “Undead and Unreturnable: A Queen Betsy Novel”, p.30, Penguin

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• Youth, however, can afford to enjoy even its melancholy; for the ultimate fact of which that melancholy is a prophecy is a long way off.

  Richard Le Gallienne

  Long, Way, Facts

  Richard Le Gallienne (1915). “Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays”

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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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• We were young, and we had no need for prophecies. Just living was itself an act of prophecy.

  Haruki Murakami

  Needs, Young

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• Religion has everything on its side: revelation, prophecies, government protection, the highest dignity and eminence. . . and more than this, the invaluable prerogative of being allowed to imprint its doctrines on the mind at a tender age of childhood, whereby they become almost innate ideas.

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Government, Ideas, Childhood

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• Choosing a name is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

  Pipilotti Rist

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Geology is rapidly taking its place as an introduction to the higher history of man. If the author has sought to exalt a favorite science, it has been with the desire that man-in whom geological history had its consummation, the prophecies of the successive ages their fulfilment-might better comprehend his own nobility and the true purpose of his existence.

  James Dwight Dana

  Science, Men, History

  James Dwight Dana (1869). “Manual of Geology: Treating of the Principles of the Science, with Special Reference to American Geological History, for the Use of Colleges, Academies, and Schools of Science”, p.9

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• Thus the good christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make false prophecies, however much they may in fact speak the truth; lest, being in league with the devil, they may deceive errant souls into making common cause.

  Saint Augustine

  Christian, League, Soul

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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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• 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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• 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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• I bring good tidings to our beloved Prophet Muhammad: Allah's promise and the Prophet's prophecy of our victory in Palestine over the Jews and over the oppressive Zionists has begun to come true.

  Khaled Mashal

  Promise, Victory, Beloved

  "amas Leader Khaled Mash'al at a Damascus Mosque: The Nation of Islam Will Sit at the Throne of the World and the West Will Be Full of Remorse When It Is Too Late". Address at the Al-Murabit Mosque in Damascus, www.memri.org. February 3, 2006.

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• Many of us grow up thinking of mistakes as bad, viewing errors as evidence of fundamental incapacity. This negative thinking pattern can create a self-fulfilling prophecy, which undermines the learning process. To maximize our learning it is essential to ask: "How can we get the most from every mistake we make?"

  Tony Buzan

  Motivational, Growing Up, Mistake

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• In the isolation of his clear, cold intellect, the sceptic abides in a glacial and spectral universe. No glow from the affections lights up the frost and shadow of the grave. He feels no prophecy in the thrill of the human heart-in the incompleteness of nature. He believes merely in things tangible, and sees only in the daytime. He will not confess the authenticity of that paler light of faith which was meant to shine when the sunshine of reason falls short, and the firmament of mystery is over our heads.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Faith, Fall, Believe

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• Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Wise, Men, Experience

  Alphonse de Lamartine (1854). “History of the French Revolution of 1848”, p.19

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• Those who have prophesied dreadful consequences as a result of the greater sexual freedom which the young assert - unwanted babies, venereal disease and so on - are usually the very same people who seek the fulfillment of their prophecies by opposing the free availability to the young of contraception and the removal of the stigma and mystification that surround venereal disease.

  Colin Ward

  Baby, Sex, Availability

  Colin Ward (2017). “Anarchy in Action”, p.88, PM Press

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• They hope for the Apocalypse like a self-fulfilling prophecy
  Tell me when do we stop it?
  Do they ask you your religion before you rent an apartment?
  Is the answer burning Korans so that we can defend Islamics?

  Talib Kweli

  Rap, Self, Hip Hop

  Song: Cold Rain, Album: Gutter Rainbows

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