Quotes About Prognostication

#1. The appearance and retirement of actors are the great events of the theatrical world; and their first performances fill the pit with conjecture and prognostication, as the first actions of a new monarch agitate nations with hope and fear.

Samuel Johnson

#2. March is the month of expectation,
The things we do not know,
The Persons of Prognostication
Are coming now.
We try to sham becoming firmness,
But pompous joy
Betrays us, as his first betrothal
Betrays a boy.

Emily Dickinson

#3. You see, astrology is like fortune-telling. If you can't get it right, you say, Well, if Venus was doing something peculiar in the background, that would alter your prognostication
because, of course, astrology is rubbish.

Quentin Crisp

#4. Either we have hope within us or we don't It is a dimension of the soul, and is not essentially dependent on some particular observation of the World or observation of the situation. Hope is not prognostication. It is an orientation of the spirit, an orientation of the heart.

Vaclav Havel

#5. Short-term market and economic prognostication is largely a fool's errand, we invest according to a strategy that makes the need to rely on short-term market or economic assessments largely irrelevant.

Bill Ackman

#6. Before prognostication, a disclaimer: I have never been able to pick a winner. Not that it has ever stopped me from trying to. Well, it has stopped me from buying stock, but let's not talk about that.

Rabih Alameddine

#7. All of the great empires of the future will be empires of the mind.

Winston S. Churchill

#8. I'm just not very comfortable talking about my emotions on a normal, day-to-day basis.

Courtney Barnett

#9. My favorite toast is rye toast.

Paris Hilton

#10. We do not know, we cannot tell, no mortal mind can conceive the full import of what Christ did in Gethsemane.

Bruce R. McConkie

#11. By 1975 sexual feeling and marriage will have nothing to do with each other.

John Langdon-Davies

#12. It's so easy, isn't it, to decide the people you're fighting aren't really human. Or maybe you have to do it, to be able to kill them.

Ann Leckie

#13. Who wants to live in the present? It's such a limiting period compared to the past.

Roger Ebert

#14. And jocund day stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops ...

William Shakespeare

#15. Being the best at whatever talent you have, that's what stimulates life.

Tom Landry

#16. Blame and praise have no true effects.

Marcus Aurelius

#17. Wall Street billionaires are predicting that Roosevelt-style railroad rate regulation will sooner or later bring about financial catastrophe. [ca. 1906]

Edmund Morris

#18. I always avoid prophesying beforehand because it is much better to prophesy after the event has already taken place.

Winston S. Churchill

#19. People whose lives are upside down often read fiction. When you're not sure where you'll end up or how you are going to be, and you're looking for some way forward, fiction is a great friend.

Anne Enright

#20. democracy that cannot control its own population may be worse for human rights than a dictatorship that can.

Robert D. Kaplan

#21. The freedom of a government does not depend on the quality of its laws, but upon the power that has the right to create them.

Thaddeus Stevens

#22. Mr. Lincoln is already defeated. He cannot be re-elected.

Horace Greeley

#23. I wish I would have had more to do in the film. I hated to get killed so soon.

Bruce Bennett