Prophesy Quotes

• Mark Twain / Author

Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.

• Auberon Herbert

I venture to prophesy that there lies before us a bitter and an evil time.

• Robert Reich / Former United States Secretary Of Labor

If we give up on politics, we're done for. Powerlessness is a self-fulfilling prophesy.

• Josh Billings / Humorist

Don't ever prophesy; for if you prophesy wrong, nobody will forget it; and if you prophesy right, nobody will remember it.

• Winston Churchill / Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom

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

• James Surowiecki / Journalist

In the auto industry, there's one thing you can always count on: if a new environmental or safety rule is proposed, executives will prophesy disaster.

• Fredrik Bajer / Writer

But I feel convinced, and I venture even to prophesy in this regard, that the time will come when there will also be a minister of peace in the cabinet, seated beside the ministers of war.

• China Mieville / Author

I think the role of science fiction is not at all to prophesy. I think it is to tell interesting, vivid, strange stories that at their best are dreamlike intense versions and visions of today.

• Hermann Ebbinghaus / Psychologist

On the basis of the familiar experience that that which is learned with difficulty is better retained, it would have been safe to prophesy such an effect from the greater number of repetitions.

• Keith Miller / Cricketer

The whole Bible is the story of men and women trying to get back to God, to overcome that sin with sacrifices, good works, sermons, prophesy, witnessing, giving all kinds of things. It never worked.

• Roger Williams / Theologian

No man ever did, nor ever shall, truly go forth to convert the nations, nor to prophesy in the present state of witnesses against Antichrist, but by the gracious inspiration and instigation of the Holy Spirit of God.

• Austin Clarke

Few in the Nineties would have ventured to prophesy that the remote dim singer of the Celtic Twilight would, in a new age, become the leading poet of the English-speaking world. None have disputed the claim of William Butler Yeats to that title.

• Walter Russell Mead / Academic

Unlike some, I don't claim to hold the mystic key to the future. But judging from past events, it seems to me that those who want to prophesy the imminent end of America's unique global role have a harder case to make than those who think we will limp on for a while, making a mess of things as usual.