Portent Quotes

15 quotes by 14 authors

• When something out of the ordinary happens, it is ridiculous to say that it is a mystery or a portent of something to come... the… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo
• Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work out salvation. . . . Let… — Bernard Baruch
• Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don't even look at one another. They are just a lot of isolated individuals… — Agnes de Mille
• The V sign is the symbol of the unconquerable will of the occupied territories, and a portent of the fate awaiting the Nazi tyranny. — Winston Churchill
• There is a portent of stormy weather ahead to which we had better give heed...No one knows when emergencies will strike...Set your houses in order.… — Gordon B. Hinckley
• .... Anon from the castle walls The crescent banner falls, And the crowd beholds instead, Like a portent in the sky, Iskander's banner fly, The… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• Self-parody is the first portent of age. — Larry McMurtry
• [Alternate translation:] The Divine Spirit found a sublime outlet in that wonder of analysis, that portent of the ideal world, that amphibian between being and… — Gottfried Leibniz
• Mene mene tekel upsharin,' Jace said with a faint smile. 'You don't recognize it? It's from the Bible, vampire. The old one. That's your book,… — Cassandra Clare
• Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. — Agnes de Mille
• During the 1960s, the Shanghai of my childhood seemed a portent of the media cities of the future, dominated by advertising and mass circulation newspapers… — J. G. Ballard
• ~ I always see the world in black and white I dont know why whenever I stare at myself and think. I feel the presence… — Angel_eyes
• The historian's job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous circumstance to portent. — Peter Conrad
• Burning was the sunset like a portent of doom. On the saintly iron maiden as she fell from her wound. — Cradle Of Filth
• Today my chinese mobile has been completed sentury of slither from my hands. its a new world record and its latest portent of the world.… — Mak_786

Who Wrote These Portent Quotes

14 authors contributed a total of 15 Portent Quotes as follows:

• 2 Portent Quotes by Agnes de Mille
• 1 Portent Quote by Yamamoto Tsunetomo
• 1 Portent Quote by Bernard Baruch
• 1 Portent Quote by Winston Churchill
• 1 Portent Quote by Gordon B. Hinckley
• 1 Portent Quote by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• 1 Portent Quote by Larry McMurtry
• 1 Portent Quote by Gottfried Leibniz
• 1 Portent Quote by Cassandra Clare
• 1 Portent Quote by J. G. Ballard
• 1 Portent Quote by Angel_eyes
• 1 Portent Quote by Peter Conrad
• 1 Portent Quote by Cradle Of Filth
• 1 Portent Quote by Mak_786