Quotes About Presentiments

#1. Presentiments are strange things: and so are sympathies; and so are signs; and the three combined make one mystery to which humanity had not yet found the key.

Charlotte Bronte

#2. Premonitions, presentiments, the sensing of unseen presences and many allied experiences are due to the activity of the astral body and its reaction on the physical; their ever-increasing frequency is merely the result of its evolution among educated people.

Annie Besant

#3. The realm of superstitions, fortune-telling, presentiments, intuition, dreams, all this is the inner life of a human being, and all this is the hardest thing to film.

Krzysztof Kieslowski

#4. Our wishes are presentiments of the abilities that lie in us, harbingers of what we will be able to accomplish.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#5. Vodka goes well with a wintery perspective. Nothing else provokes such presentiments of falling snow except, for some, the communist seizure of the state.

Michele Bernstein

#6. No law of nature, however general, has been established all at once; its recognition has always been preceded by many presentiments.

Dmitri Mendeleev

#7. Give what name you like to my presentiments, but I am afraid that my happiness will be paid for by some horrible catastrophe.

Honore De Balzac

#8. I think all men know better than they do; know that the institutions we so volubly commend are go-carts and baubles; but they darenot trust their presentiments.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#9. Oh, those women! They nurse and cuddle their presentiments, and make darlings of their ugliest thoughts.

William Makepeace Thackeray

#10. People in college, if you're getting recognized for getting good grades, you're finally famous. If you get recognized for playing the drums, if you're being recognized for making good ass beats, good ass raps, you're finally famous.

Big Sean

#11. It's important for me to put out things that I think are good - I want to be a fan of my own stuff. I also want my live shows to be really awesome, and dance is such an important element for me and my performances.

Tinashe

#12. We all only have 1440 minutes a day. Accept you can't do it all, focus on what's important and do that well.

Eric Barker

#13. There are only two sorts of doctors; those who practise with their brains, and those who practise with their tongues.

William Osler

#14. Presentiment is that long shadow on the lawn
Indicative that suns go down;
The notice to the startled grass
That darkness is about to pass.

Emily Dickinson

#15. The function of the wing is to take what is heavy and raise it up in the region above.

Plato

#16. Unfortunately, proof of a Jefferson-Hemings liaison was as fanciful as Professor Ellis' war service.

Ann Coulter

#17. Everything measurable passes, everything that can be counted has an end. Only three things are infinite: the sky in its stars, the sea in its drops of water, and the heart in its tears.

Gustave Flaubert

#18. Acrostics in French or acrostics in Hebrew were still Greek to him.

Dorothy Dunnett

#19. I was 4 years old when I sang in public for the very first time.

Mireille Mathieu

#20. I'm an atheist swimming in a sea of superstition, surrounded by well-meaning, good people with whom I share a culture and similar concerns, and there's only one thing I can do. I have to laugh. Living

P.Z. Myers

#21. Not everything that's inevitable is regrettable.

Scott Lynch

#22. Centuries of make-up that can be smudged by emotion have taught women to control their feelings.

Arturo Perez-Reverte

#23. Maybe all the secrets of life were written on the surface of leaves, waiting to be translated. If I touched them long enough, I might be given some information no one else had.

Silas House

#24. I'm a slave to this leaf in a diary that lists what I must do, what I must say, every half hour.

Golda Meir

#25. We must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word.

Cesare Pavese