Quotes About Foretelling

#1. You don't see yet, Genry, why we perfected and practice Foretelling?" "No - " "To exhibit the perfect uselessness of knowing the answer to the wrong question." I

Ursula K. Le Guin

#2. By 1950, he had come to view the pedestrian as a threshold or indicator species capable of foretelling things to come - if the rights of the pedestrian were threatened, it would be an early indicator that broader freedoms of thought and action were also at risk.

Jonathan Eller

#3. He listened yet more intently to what was within him, to the past, to see whether that voice of memory truly foretelling the future would not speak to him again, revealing the present to him as well as the past.

Stefan Zweig

#4. Lord Berosty rem ir Ipe came to Thangering Fastness and offered forty beryls and half the year's yield from his orchards as the price of a Foretelling, and the price was acceptable. He set his question to the Weaver Odren, and the question was, On what day shall I die?

Ursula K. Le Guin

#5. All Pretences of foretelling by Astrology, are Deceits; for this manifest Reason, because the Wise and Learned, who can only judge whether there be any Truth in this Science, do all unanimously agree to laugh at and despise it; and none but the poor ignorant Vulgar give it any Credit.

Jonathan Swift

#6. Anyone,' Ayallac'h wiped his hands on a rag, 'can foretell the future. And everyone does it, for it is simple. It is no great art to foretell it. The art is in foretelling it accurately.' 'An

Andrzej Sapkowski

#7. By not foretelling the ending to yourself, as a writer, you're able to open up the canvas and say, "I'm going to go here. I'm going to go there." It's just a little bit more freeing than a stand-alone procedural, where you work backwards from the end.

Veena Sud

#8. us - I looked at that beautiful snow-capped mountain and named it Eliza. Because it was warm, fertile, and beautiful below, while being a bit frosty and inaccessible at the top - yet possessing a volcanick profile foretelling explosions -

Neal Stephenson

#9. Fear, indeed, is the mother of foresight ...

Henry Taylor

#10. She considered the familiar conundrum inherent in complimenting a child for doing something well in the course of what ought not to have been done at all, and kept her peace.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#11. You're asking me to look into the future and give you guarantees. Magic isn't a recipe for baking cake.

Martina Boone

#12. Stories are not always innocent; ... they can be used to put you in the wrong crowd, in the party of the man who has come to dispossess you.

Chinua Achebe

#13. I don't stretch enough. I know I should do it more, and I'd like to do yoga, but I just don't have time.

Raymond Kelly

#14. The philosophers have always given truth a bill of divorce, by separating what nature has joined together and vice versa.

Johann Georg Hamann

#15. A career is a career, but you're a mother until you die.

Shirley Eaton

#16. It was easy not to think of my future; I didn't have one.

James Ellroy

#17. Every work of art should give utterance, or indicate, the awful blind strength and the cruelty of the creative impulse, that is why they must all have what are called errors, both of taste and style.

Christina Stead

#18. The only thing marring the illusion is an empty swimming pool hanging halfway off the cliff on the edge of the grounds.

Susan Ee

#19. Prattle without practice

William Shakespeare