Crystal Ball Quotes

• the magic is inside you. there ain't no crystal ball

  Dolly Parton

  Inspirational, Women, Magic

  Twitter post from Aug 06, 2009

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• Travelers are fantasists, conjurers, seers - and what they finally discover is that every round object everywhere is a crystal ball: stone, teapot, the marvelous globe of the human eye.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Eye, Balls, Stones

  Cynthia Ozick (1987). “The Messiah of Stockholm: a novel”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• You don't have to gaze into a crystal ball when you can read an open book.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Life, Book, Advice

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• He who lives by the crystal ball will eat shattered glass.

  Ray Dalio

  Glasses, Balls, Crystals

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• You can trust a crystal ball about as far as you can throw it.

  Faith Popcorn

  Future, Popcorn, Balls

  Faith Popcorn (1991). “The Popcorn Report: Faith Popcorn on the Future of Your Company, Your World, Your Life”, p.102, BookBaby

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• I'm not scared at all... Of the cracks in the crystal ball.

  Adam Lambert

  Cracks, Balls, Crystals

  Twitter post from Feb 1, 2011

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• He who looks in the crystal ball ends up eating glass... They're way, way close.

  Mary Matalin

  Glasses, Balls, Looks

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• I can't speak for the future. I have no crystal ball.

  Michael Jordan

  Balls, Crystals, Speak

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• He promises a lamp unto our feet, not a crystal ball into the future.

  Max Lucado

  Feet, Promise, Lamps

  Max Lucado (2009). “Traveling Light: Premier Library Edition”, p.48, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I love the whirling of the dervishes.
  I love the beauty of rare innocence.
  You don't need no crystal ball,
  Don't fall for a magic wand.
  We humans got it all, we perform the miracles.

  Kate Bush

  Fall, Miracle, Magic

  Song: Them Heavy People, Album: The Kick Inside, 1978

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• I don't really believe in palm readers and crystal balls and tarot cards, but I respond to the need for them.

  Stephan Jenkins

  Believe, Balls, Cards

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• If the Founding Fathers could have looked into a crystal ball and seen AK-47s and Glock semi-automatic pistols, I think they would say, you know, 'That's not really what we mean when we say bear arms.'

  Michael Moore

  Father, Mean, Thinking

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• I deal in facts, not forecasting the future. That's crystal ball stuff. That doesn't work.

  Peter Lynch

  Balls, Stuff, Crystals

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• I usually am accused of having a crystal ball into which I can gaze and look into the future.

  Gerald Seymour

  Crystals, Balls, Looks

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• Now suppose both death and hell were utterly defeated.  Suppose the fight was fixed.  Suppose God took you on a crystal ball trip into your future and you saw with indubitable certainty that despite everything — your sin, your smallness, your stupidity — you could have free for the asking your whole crazy heart’s deepest desire: heaven, eternal joy.  Would you not return fearless and singing?  What can earth do to you, if you are guaranteed heaven?  To fear the worst earthly loss would be like a millionaire fearing the loss of a penny — less, a scratch on a penny.

  Peter Kreeft

  Crazy, Heart, Loss

  Peter Kreeft (1989). “Heaven, the Heart's Deepest Longing”, p.82, Ignatius Press

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• Methods for predicting the future: 1) read horoscopes, tea leaves, tarot cards, or crystal balls . . . collectively known as "nutty methods;" 2) put well-researched facts into sophisticated computer . . . commonly referred to as "a complete waste of time."

  Scott Adams

  Time, Tea Leaves, Tarot

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• My crystal ball or intuition tells me that in the '80s the impact of RIA [radioimmunoassay] on the study of infectious diseases may prove as revolutionary as its impact on endocrinology in the 60s.

  Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

  Impact, Intuition, Balls

  "A Probe For Fine Structure Of Biologic Systems". Rosalyn Sussman Yalow's Nobel Lecture in Stockholm, Sweden, December 8, 1977.

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• "Well, we were always going to fail that one," said Ron gloomily as they ascended the marble staircase. He had just made Harry feel rather better by telling him how he told the examiner in detail about the ugly man with a wart on his nose in the crystal ball, only to look up and realize he had been describing the examiner's reflection.

  J. K. Rowling

  Reflection, Men, Details

  "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix". Book by J. K. Rowling, June 21, 2003.

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• I'm not in the business of reading tea leaves. I don't have a crystal ball.

  Christine Lagarde

  Reading, Tea Leaves, Balls

  "Christine Lagarde: can the head of the IMF save the euro?". Interview With Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. May 25, 2012.

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• I think we're in a very exciting time - visually, I think we are. I've not got a crystal ball. I'm not saying I know what the future is at all. In some ways I'm getting quite pessimistic about the future, but in other ways I think it might get better. We are moving into very big changes.

  David Hockney

  Moving, Thinking, Get Better

  Interview with Michael Govan, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 5, 2013.

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• There are those who worship loneliness, I'm not one of them In this age of fiberglass I'm searching for a gem The crystal ball up on the wall hasn't shown me nothing yet I've paid the price of solitude, but at last I'm out of debt

  Bob Dylan

  Wall, Loneliness, Solitude

  Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.460, Simon and Schuster

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• Entrepreneurs, because they need money, they are willing to share their crystal ball with someone like me. That's the best thing ever.

  Ron Conway

  Entrepreneur, Needs, Balls

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• You can't gaze in the crystal ball and see the future. What the Internet is going to be in the future is what society makes it.

  Robert E. Kahn

  Balls, Crystals, Internet

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• There may be rhetoric about the socially constructed nature of Western science, but wherever it matters, there is no alternative. There are no specifically Hindu or Taoist designs for mobile phones, faxes or televisions. There are no satellites based on feminist alternatives to quantum theory. Even that great public sceptic about the value of science, Prince Charles, never flies a helicopter burning homeopathically diluted petrol, that is, water with only a memory of benzine molecules, maintained by a schedule derived from reading tea leaves, and navigated by a crystal ball.

  Simon Blackburn

  Memories, Reading, Tea Leaves

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• So, regarding the time frame, I'm only too willing to admit that my crystal ball, like everybody else's, is cracked. If I could predict precisely, I would have started predicting the stock market and would now be living with a bunch of young women on Bora Bora, having bought it.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Crystals, Balls, Bora Bora

  "Q&A: Paul Ehrlich". Interview with Jesse Finfrock, www.motherjones.com. 2008.

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