Harbinger Quotes
33 quotes by 29 authors
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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
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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
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[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
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Even drunk, I knew any escape plan that involved going to Detroit, Michigan, was a harbinger of doom.
— Mat Johnson
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Style begins with the people passing through one’s life, the harbingers we push against and the stylemakers we want to clone. Some are famous, some…
— Carol Edgarian
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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
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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
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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
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That sorrow which is the harbinger of joy is preferable to the joy which is followed by sorrow.
— Saadi
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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
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Nor will I then thy modest grace forget, Chaste Snow-drop, venturous harbinger of Spring, And pensive monitor of fleeting years!
— William Wordsworth
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Stay, little cheerful Robin! stay, And at my casement sing, Though it should prove a farewell lay And this our parting spring. * * *…
— William Wordsworth
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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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