Prophecy Quotes

St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.

Malcolm Muggeridge

Predictions of the future are never anything but projections of present automatic processes and procedures, that is, of occurrences that are likely to come to pass if men do not act and if nothing unexpected happens; every action, for better or worse, and every accident necessarily destroys the whole pattern in whose frame the prediction moves and where it finds its evidence.

Hannah Arendt

The unpredictability inherent in human affairs is due largely to the fact that the by-products of a human process are more fateful than the product.

Eric Hoffer

Prophecy today is hardly the romantic business that it used to be. The old tools of the trade, like the sword, the hair shirt, and the long fast in the wilderness, have given way to more contemporary, mundane instruments of doom --the book, the picket and the petition, the sit-in at City Hall.

Jane Kramer

No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.

James Baldwin

Three people were at work on a construction site. All were doing the same job, but when each was asked what the job was, the answers varied. Breaking rocks, the first replied. Earning my living, the second said. Helping to build a cathedral, said the third.

Peter Schultz

When the sun rises, do you not see a round disc of fire somewhat like a guinea? O no, no, I see an innumerable company of the heavenly host crying Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty.

William Blake

As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.

William Blake

The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

I always looked ahead.

Chris Evert

So shine on through these days we have to fill.

Elton John

I want to use television not only to entertain, but to help people lead better lives.

Oprah Winfrey

No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.

Woodrow Wilson

The kingdom of God could be realized simply by daring to live differently from the normal conventions. The kingdom of God in the teachings of Jesus was not an apocalyptic or heavenly projection of otherworldly desire. It was driven by a desire to think that there must be a better way to live together than the present state of affairs. And it called for a change of behavior in the present on the part of individuals invested in the vision.

Burton L. Mack

With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true vision.

Henry David Thoreau

No vision and you perish; No Ideal, and you're lost; Your heart must ever cherish Some faith at any cost. Some hope, some dream to cling to, Some rainbow in the sky, Some melody to sing to, Some service that is high.

Harriet Du Autermont

Perhaps our eyes are merely a blank film which is taken from us after our deaths to be developed elsewhere and screened as our life story in some infernal cinema or dispatched as microfilm into the sidereal void.

Jean Baudrillard

I know my fate. One day there will be associated with my name the recollection of something frightful -- of a crisis like no other before on earth, of the profoundest collision of conscience, of a decision evoked against everything that until then had been believed in, demanded, sanctified. I am not a man I am dynamite.

Friedrich Nietzsche