Prophecy Quotes - Page 7

• In spite of myself, I gave a snort. "Just once, I'd like to hear a simple, straightforward prophecy.

  Cameron Dokey

  Simple, Spite, Straightforward

  Cameron Dokey, Mahlon F. Craft (2008). “Sunlight and Shadow: A Retelling of "The Magic Flute"”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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• The spot where God's triumph is achieved, God's victory over sin, over lawlessness, is the cross of Calvary- the cross on which the Son of God died. In that cross and through the cross the works of the devil were destroyed, and the One who conquered him is yet to bruise the serpent's head in the final triumph when He comes again, as recorded in prophecy.

  Arno C. Gaebelein

  Christian, Son, Victory

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• In our own lives, having a mind-set of expecting to win increases our odds of winning. It helps us get better results. And better results help us increase our credibility and self-confidence, which leads to more positive self-expectancy, and more winning - and the upward cycle continues. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

  Stephen Covey

  Motivational, Self Confidence, Winning

  Stephen R. Covey, Rebecca R. Merrill (2008). “The SPEED of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

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• When you say something or sing something enough times, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. It's almost like casting spells. I don't mean necessarily in the flighty, 'I'm going to go buy a cloak with a hood now' way.

  Feist

  Mean, Self, Casting

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• Choosing a name is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

  Pipilotti Rist

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I shall lie folded like a saint,
  Lapped in a scented linen sheet,
  On a bedstead striped with bright-blue paint,
  Narrow and cold and neat.

  Elinor Wylie

  Lying, Blue, Saint

  Elinor Wylie, Evelyn Helmick Hively (2005). “Selected Works of Elinor Wylie”, p.37, Kent State University Press

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• Every green thing loves to die in bright colors. The vegetable cohorts march glowing out of the year in flaming dresses, as if to leave this earth were a triumph and not a sadness. It is never nature that is sad, but only we, that dare not look back on the past, and that have not its prophecy of the future in our bosoms.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Sadness, Past, Glowing

  Henry Ward Beecher (1855). “Star papers; or, Experiences of art and nature”, p.183

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• Oppression has no logic--just a self-fulfilling prophecy, justified by a self-perpetuating system.

  Gloria Steinem

  Self, Logic, Oppression

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Moving Beyond Words: Essays on Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking the Boundaries of Gender”, p.179, Open Road Media

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• Nearly all creators of Utopia have resembled the man who has toothache, and therefore thinks happiness consists in not having toothache. They wanted to produce a perfect society by an endless continuation of something that had only been valuable because it was temporary. The wider course would be to say that there are certain lines along which humanity must move, the grand strategy is mapped out, but detailed prophecy is not our business. Whoever tries to imagine perfection simply reveals his own emptiness.

  George Orwell

  Moving, Men, Thinking

  George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “The Complete Works of George Orwell: I have tried to tell the truth, 1943-1944”

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• being Cassandra is a principled choice when there is cause for alarm.

  Robin Morgan

  Choices, Causes, Alarms

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• The New Testament, they tell us, is founded upon the prophecies of the Old; if so, it must follow the fate of its foundation.

  Thomas Paine

  Fate, Religion, Foundation

  Richard Watson, Thomas Paine (1855). “Apology for the Bible: In a Series of Letters Addressed to Thomas Paine, Author of The Age of Reason”, p.133

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• It is not merely the multiplicity of tints, the gladness of tone, or the balminess of the air which delight in the spring; it is the still consecrated spirit of hope, the prophecy of happy days yet to come; the endless variety of nature, with presentiments of eternal flowers which never shall fade, and sympathy with the blessedness of the ever-developing world.

  Novalis

  Spring, Flower, Air

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• The force behind the movement of time is a mourning that will not be comforted. That is why the first event is known to have been an expulsion, and the last is hoped to be a reconciliation and return. So memory pulls us forward, so prophecy is only brilliant memory - there will be a garden where all of us as one child will sleep in our mother Eve, hooped in her ribs and staved by her spine.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Mother, Time, Children

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• For the poets tell us, don't they, that the melodies they bring us are gathered from rills that run with honey, out of glens and gardens of the Muses, and they bring them as bees do honey, flying like the bees? And what they say is true, for a poet is a light and winged thing, and holy, and never able to compose until he has become inspired, and is beside himself, and reason is no longer in him. So long as he has this in his possession, no man is able to make poetry or to chant in prophecy.

  Plato

  Inspirational, Running, Men

  Plato (1963). “The Collected Dialogues of Plato: Including The Letters”, Bollingen

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• 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

  Fate, America, Woven

  Invisible Man epilogue (1952)

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• There is to the poetical sense a ravishing prophecy and winsome intimation in flowers that now and then, from the influence of mood of circumstance, reasserts itself like the reminiscence of childhood, or the spell of love.

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman

  Flower, Childhood, Influence

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• After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941, the United States would enter, in a formal way, what had been up to that date strictly a European conflict. Marcus Garvey's prophecy about the European scramble to maintain dominance over the whole world was now a reality.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Reality, United States, World

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• The bible is very resonant. It has everything, creation, betrayal, lust, poetry, prophecy, sacrifice. All great things are in the bible and all great writers have drawn from it and more than people realise, whether Shakespeare, Herman Melville or Bob Dylan. Of course there are stories that are still relevant and inspiring; lessons that need to be taught over and over again. And they give people hope.

  Patti Smith

  Betrayal, Sacrifice, People

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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• What are prophecies? Don't we hear them every day of the week? And if one comes true there may be seven blind and come to nothing.

  Lady Gregory

  May, Blind, Week

  Lady Gregory (2012). “Three Wonder Plays”, p.21, tredition

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• Prophecy is most dangerous when you try to make it happen... The Pattern weaves itself around you, but when you try to weave it, even you cannot hold it.

  Robert Jordan

  Trying, Patterns, Dangerous

  Robert Jordan (2010). “The Shadow Rising: Book 4 of the Wheel of Time”, p.596, Hachette UK

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• Prophecy is rash, but it may be that the publication of D.T. Suzuki's first Essays in Zen Buddhism in 1927 will seem to future generations as great an intellectual event as William of Moerbeke's Latin translations of Aristotle in the thirteenth century or Marsiglio Ficino's of Plato in the fifteenth.

  D.T. Suzuki

  Plato, Latin, Buddhism

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• I don't make mistakes. I make prophecies which immediately turn out to be wrong.

  Murray Walker

  Mistake, Humor, Turns

  The Gold Coast Bulletin, en.wikiquote.org. October 26, 2002.

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• Every art form changes, often at rates and in ways that cause discomfort to its devotees. But the arts also have a remarkable ability to withstand and absorb those changes, and to prove wrong the prophecies of their demise.

  A. O. Scott

  Art, Causes, Demise

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• Among archetypal images, the Sacred Tree is one of the most widely know symbols on Earth. There are few cultures in which the Sacred Tree does not figure: as an image of the cosmos, as a dwelling place of gods or spirits, as a medium of prophecy and knowledge, and as an agent of metamorphoses when the tree is transformed into human or divine form or when it bears a divine or human image as its fruit or flowers.

  Christopher McDowell

  Flower, Dwelling Place, Tree

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• Prophecy and prescience - How can they be put to the test in the face of unanswered questions? Consider: How much is actual prediction and how much is the prophet shaping the future to fit the prophecy? What are the harmonics inherent in the act of prophecy? Does the prophet see the future or does he see a line of weakness, a fault or cleavage that he may shatter with words or decisions as a diamond-cutter shatters his gem with a blow of the knife?

  Frank Herbert

  Blow, Knives, Decision

  "Dune: The Gateway Collection". Book by Frank Herbert, 2012.

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