“ The moon of the whip-poor-will from the hillside; the boding cry of the tree-toad, that harbinger of storm; the dreary hooting of the screechowl. ”
- Washington Irving- Copy
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“ Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace the day's disasters in his morning face. ”
- Oliver Goldsmith- Copy
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“ How is it possible to expect mankind to take advice when they will not so much as take warning? ”
- Jonathan Swift- Copy
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“ How is it possible to find meaning in a finite world, given my waist and shirt size? ”
- Woody Allen- Copy
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“ But those deadly acts, and they were deadly, proved not to be harbingers of victory. ”
- Donald Rumsfeld- Copy
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“ You can make a good living from soothsaying, but not from truthsaying. ”
- Georg Lichtenberg- Copy
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“ Well, you give me too much credit for foresight and planning. I haven't got a clue what the hell I'm doing. ”
- Robert Parker- Copy
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“ He was shocked by it,... He said everyone has an instinct to warn someone you know, but when you sign up for the job you have to give that up. ”
- Peter King- Copy
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“ I'm only a four-dimensional creature. Haven't got a clue how to visualise infinity. Even Einstein hadn't. I know because I asked him. ”
- Patrick Moore- Copy
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“ One can live in this world on soothsaying but not on truth saying. ”
- G. C. Lichtenberg- Copy
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“ Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe, Sadder than owl-songs or the midnight blast, Is that portentous phrase, 'I told you so.'. ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
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“ The trumpet of prophecy! O wind,If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind? ”
- Percy Bysshe Shelley- Copy
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“ Don't ever prophesy; for if you prophesy wrong, nobody will forget it; and if you prophesy right, nobody will remember it. ”
- Josh Billings- Copy
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“ The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace. ”
- Joseph Addison- Copy
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“ May you have the hindsight to know where you've beenThe foresight to know where you are goingAnd the insight to know when you have gone too far. ”
- Irish Blessing- Copy
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“ Come, fair repentance, daughter of the skies! Soft harbinger of soon returning virtue; The weeping messenger of grace from heaven. ”
- Sir Thomas Browne- Copy
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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- Copy
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“ Every theory is a self-fulfilling prophecy that orders experience into the framework it provides. ”
- Ruth Hubbard- Copy
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“ There is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ Our character…is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be. ”
- George Santayana- Copy
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“ I think this is all my life. Because if I was split gymnastics and something else like far, fun or to go with friends. No, this, you're supposed to one go, one straight road and to do every day. And touch the wall, of the goal. ”
- Olga Korbut- Copy
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“ INAUSPICIOUSLY, adv. In an unpromising manner, the auspices being unfavorable. Among the Romans it was customary before undertaking any important action or enterprise to obtain from the augurs, or state prophets, some hint of its probable outcome; and one of their favorite and most trustworthy modes of divination consisted in observing the flight of birds — the omens thence derived being called auspices… ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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