Quotes of: Prophecy Keyword

We should keep in mind that it is easy to concoct stories explaining the past or to become confident about dubious scenarios of the future. We should view both explanations and prophecies with skepticism.

Leonard Mlodinow

Lord Voldemort: I need that prophecy. Sirius Black: You'll have to kill me. Lord Voldemort: Oh, I will.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10.

Neil Armstrong

If you are an antichrist, you won't believe in the bible prophecy from the beginning. Which means, you won't believe that physical immortality will become possible.

Alex Chiu

His stories were not always new, but there was in the telling of them a special kind of magic. His voice could roll like thunder or hush down into a zepherlike whisper. He could imitate the voices of a dozen men at once; whistle so like a bird that t...

The Belgariad, Vol. 1: Pawn of Prophecy / Queen of Sorcery / Magician's Gambit

A writer should show the silver in his hands neither as bronze nor as gold; the gist of the matter is to show silver as silver.

The Beggar's Prophecy

You never hear a prophecy start with . If it's good, thank the gods - but if it's bad, it's your own damn fault!

In Siege of Daylight

There are many forms of tyrants, but there are none so terrible as those stifling their own people in the name of freedom.

Lord of the Rings: Apocalyptic Prophecies

He knew she loved him in that moment. Gabe never wanted to be part of the holy fight, but now he was, he was not about to lose.

The Shield Prophecy

He had only heard of dragons, and although he had never seen one, he was sure they existed.

Sons of Avalon: Merlin's Prophecy

Chase your dreams until you catch them...and then dream, catch, and dream again!

Sons of Avalon: Merlin's Prophecy

You can’t expect to conquer the world in one day, you know. All good things will come in time.

Prophecies Awakening

Caring about him was like trying to love a tree stump - a cold, mean-spirited paternalistic tree stump. With fungus.

Prophecy Girl

I frowned at him. "Isn't sarcasm the opiate of the masses?" "You're thinking of religion," he replied. "Sarcasm is the Xanax of the morally bereft.

Prophecy Girl

To find the books end, cross the ancient wood to the mystic isle. Until then, prepare yourself for the coming battle. . . AND TRUST NO ONE.

Prophecy of the Sisters

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

Matthew Arnold made the horrible prophecy that literature would increasingly replace religion.

On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature

Every year if not every day, we have to wager our salvation on some prophecy based upon the imperfect knowledge.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

A self-fulfilling prophecy is an assumption or prediction that, purely as a result of having been made, cause the expected or predicted event to occur and thus confirms its own 'accuracy.'

Paul Watzlawick

America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description.

Ralph Ellison

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