Top 22 Divining Quotes
#1. There is no divining-rod whose dip shall tell us at twenty what we shall most relish at thirty.
Nathaniel Parker Willis
#3. My father had a very unusual psychic ability, he could detect water. It's called divining. He would use a Y-shaped U-branch, and he could find water with that, which is a very impressive skill in a country where it rains 365 days of the year.
Craig Ferguson
#4. Children - even when they have endured the unthinkable - have a gift for divining the moment when the grown-ups really need to lighten up.
Barbara Kingsolver
#5. I wish Europe would let Russia annihilate Turkey a little
not much, but enough to make it difficult to find the place again without a divining-rod or a diving-bell.
Mark Twain
#6. Mooner was walking around laying his hands on the cars, divining karma. "this is it", he said, standing by a small khaki-colored jeep."this car has protective qualities"
You mean like a guardian angel?"
I mean, like, it has seatbelts
Janet Evanovich
#7. His dick is hard now, like mine, a divining rod in a land where water is everywhere.
James Halat
#8. The poet's pen is the true divining rod Which trembles towards the inner founts of feeling; Bringing to light and use, else hid from all, The many sweet clear sources which we have of good and beauty in our own deep bosoms; And marks the variations of all mind As does the needle.
Philip James Bailey
#9. I don't consider myself a divining rod whom God is speaking through or any kind of crap like that.
Kathleen Hanna
#10. The ideal doctor would be a man endowed with profound knowledge of life and of the soul, intuitively divining any suffering or disorder of whatever kind, and restoring peace by his mere presence.
Henri Frederic Amiel
#11. He said that even the damned in hell have the community of their suffering and he thought that he'd guessed out likewise for the living a nominal grief like a grange from which disaster and ruin are proportioned by laws of equity too subtle for divining.
Cormac McCarthy
#12. Let not thy divining heart
Forethink me any ill;
Destiny may take thy part,
And may thy fears fulfill.
John Donne
#13. Let language be the divining rod that finds the sources of thought.
Karl Kraus
#14. We live like latecomers to the theater; we must catch up as best we can, divining the begging from the shape of later events.
Diane Setterfield
#15. You think that upon the score of fore-knowledge and divining I am infinitely inferior to the swans. When they perceive approaching death they sing more merrily than before, because of the joy they have in going to the God they serve.
Socrates
#16. We have a serious problem: America is addicted to oil ... The best way to break this addiction is through technology
George W. Bush
#17. The truth, when finally revealed, is sticky like wet dough. The majority of it stays in place as one handles it, but pieces break off and adhere, making certain facts seem larger, more portentous, than others.
Angela Flournoy
#18. I deserve someone who likes me for who I am pretending to be.
Arj Barker
#19. If you are willing to dream and then work hard and execute well, you can achieve more than you ever imagined.
Maynard Webb
#20. I went to school at Colorado State. I finished my degree in pre-medicine and nutrition with aspirations of actually going to graduate school in medicine, which I didn't.
Derek Theler
#21. We're past the age of heroes and hero kings ... Most of our lives are basically mundane and dull, and it's up to the writer to find ways to make them interesting.
John Updike
#22. A moratorium on opportunities, please. I need to recover from the last one.
Mason Cooley
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