Harbinger Quotes

33 quotes by 29 authors

In all parts of the Old World, as well as of the New, it was evident that Columbus had kindled a fire in every mariner's… — Charles Kendall Adams
Our desires presage the capacities within us; they are harbingers of what we shall be able to accomplish. What we can do and want to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
[T]he man who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national independence by a single people, had the coolness, forecast, and capacity to introduce… — Abraham Lincoln
Even drunk, I knew any escape plan that involved going to Detroit, Michigan, was a harbinger of doom. — Mat Johnson
Beware the beast man, for he is the devil's pawn. Alone among God's primates, he kills for sport or lust or greed. Yea, he will… — Roddy McDowall
But who is this, what thing of sea or land,- Female of sex it seems,- That so bedeck'd, ornate, and gay, Comes this way sailing… — John Milton
What counts alone is the innovator, the dissenter, the harbinger of things unheard of, the man who rejects the traditional standards and aims at substituting… — Ludwig von Mises
No festival of martial glory or warrior's renown is this; no pageant pomp of war-like conquest, no glory of fratricidal strife attend this day. It… — Peter J. McGuire
Late February, and the air's so balmy snowdrops and crocuses might be fooled into early blooming. Then, the inevitable blizzard will come, blighting our harbingers… — Gail Mazur
The other me, who did not mean to drown herself, went under the sea and remained there for a long time. Eventually she surfaced near… — Edna O'Brien
The main achievement of economics is that it has provided a theory of peaceful human cooperation. This is why the harbingers of violent conflict have… — Ludwig von Mises
Style begins with the people passing through oneâ€™s life, the harbingers we push against and the stylemakers we want to clone. Some are famous, some… — Carol Edgarian
The hopeless hope is one of the early harbingers of spring, bespeaking an innocent belief that the world might right its wrongs and reverse its… — Aleksandar Hemon
For night's swift dragons cut the clouds full fast, And yonder shines Aurora's harbinger; At whose approach ghosts wandring here and there Troop home to… — William Shakespeare
Hollywood is a perpetual summerland, a temperate, godless yaw where the very word 'season' has been co-opted by television executives. There are few harbingers of… — Diablo Cody
That sorrow which is the harbinger of joy is preferable to the joy which is followed by sorrow. — Saadi
Just as the teaching of the Law and the prophets, being harbingers of the coming advent of the Logos in the flesh, guide our souls… — Maximus the Confessor
Nor will I then thy modest grace forget, Chaste Snow-drop, venturous harbinger of Spring, And pensive monitor of fleeting years! — William Wordsworth
Stay, little cheerful Robin! stay, And at my casement sing, Though it should prove a farewell lay And this our parting spring. * * *… — William Wordsworth
It appears then, that capitalist production comprises conditions independent of good or bad will, conditions which permit the working-class to enjoy that relative prosperity only… — Karl Marx

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