There is, to be sure, sometimes only a small difference between being alert to possible danger and allowing oneself to become terrified… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
When something out of the ordinary happens, it is ridiculous to say that it is a mystery or a portent of something… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo Copy Share Image
Zombies are then a symbol of our own mad urges to destroy ourselves, and a terrifying portent that we might succeed. — Kim Paffenroth Copy Share Image
In one sense what may pass between the pope and myself may be trivialities. In another sense the fact of talking trivialities… — Geoffrey Fisher Copy Share Image
As the skies appear to a man, so is his mind. Some see only clouds there; some, prodigies and portents; some rarely… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don't even look at one another. They are just a lot… — Agnes de Mille Copy Share Image
There various news I heard of love and strife,Of peace and war, health, sickness, death, and life,Of loss and gain, of famine… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
There is a portent of stormy weather ahead to which we had better give heed...No one knows when emergencies will strike...Set your… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken, I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children,… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
The night ... it is filled with bestial watchmen, trammeling the extremities and the interstices of the timeless city, portents fallen, constellated… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
The phantom-host has faded quite, Splendor and Terror gone-- Portent or promise--and gives way To pale, meek Dawn. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
[Alternate translation:] The Divine Spirit found a sublime outlet in that wonder of analysis, that portent of the ideal world, that amphibian… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
They say that in the hour before an earthquake the clouds hang leaden in the sky, the winds slows to a hot… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
But it seems to me that a man cannot and ought not to say that he loves, he said. Why not? I… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
.... Anon from the castle walls The crescent banner falls, And the crowd beholds instead, Like a portent in the sky, Iskander's… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
In the zone of perdition where my youth went as if to complete its education, one would have said that the portents… — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
Always maintain the attitude of a student. If you think you've done learning, bitterness sets in, but if you have more to… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
It began as most thing begin. Not on a dark and stormy night. Not foreshadowed by ominous here comes the villain music,… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work out salvation. .… — Bernard Baruch Copy Share Image
Mene mene tekel upsharin,' Jace said with a faint smile. 'You don't recognize it? It's from the Bible, vampire. The old one.… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
There are certain events which to each man's life are as comets to the earth, seemingly strange and erratic portents; distinct from… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
“She was every inch the skeletal goddess that had been promised by the bones of her feet.” — Jefferson Smith Copy Share Image
Rivers are roads that move and carry us whither we wish to go. [Fr., Les rivieres sont des chemins qui marchant et… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
How many may a man of diffusive conversation count among his acquaintances, whose lives have been signalized by numberless escapes; who never… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image