Quotes About Augury

#1. How d'you spell 'belligerent'?" said Ron, shaking his quill very hard while staring at his parchment. "It can't be B - U - M - "
"No, it isn't," said Hermione. "And 'augury' doesn't begin O - R - G either.

J.K. Rowling

#2. Good hope is often beguiled by her own augury.

Ovid

#3. So now you think the augury was misinterpreted. It said you had to go get someone. It didn't say who that someone was.

Stephen R. Donaldson

#4. 'Angels in America' - which is composed of two three-hour plays, 'Millennium Approaches' and 'Perestroika' - proved to be a watershed drama, the most lyrical and ambitious augury of an era since Tennessee Williams's 'The Glass Menagerie.'

John Lahr

#5. The fact of having been born is a bad augury for immortality.

George Santayana

#6. The single best augury is to fight for one's country.

Homer

#7. The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

George Eliot

#8. What was then an augury for direction of action among the ruins of an archaic mentality is now the search for an innocence of certainty among the mythologies of facts.

Julian Jaynes

#9. All I've got to be is be happy

George Harrison

#10. Chestnuts are delicacies for princes and a lusty and masculine food for rusticks, and able to make women well-complexioned.

John Evelyn

#11. Why do you insist upon destroying yourself?

Charles Bukowski

#12. She whirled around and threw the spatula, not missing my head by all that wide of a margin. I was shocked, not so much by her language but by the strength of that pitch. Usually Rachel threw underhanded and was no threat at all.

Barbara Kingsolver

#13. There is only one sin. and that is theft ... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.

Khaled Hosseini

#14. Collingswood frowned at the clouds, like she did not like what they wrote.

China Mieville

#15. Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.

Mahatma Gandhi

#16. People in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than governments.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#17. It is your omen, only you know the meaning. To me, it is but another star in the night.

Gerald R. Stanek

#18. Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.

Igor Stravinsky

#19. Marcuse wrote: "Perhaps an accident may alter the situation, but unless the recognition of what is being done and what is being prevented subverts the consciousness and the behavior of man, not even a catastrophe will bring about the change." ...

Daniel Pinchbeck