Portents Quotes
18 quotes by 17 authors
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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
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Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work out salvation. . . . Let…
— Bernard Baruch
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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
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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
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As the skies appear to a man, so is his mind. Some see only clouds there; some, prodigies and portents; some rarely look up at…
— Henry David Thoreau
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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
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.... 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
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How many may a man of diffusive conversation count among his acquaintances, whose lives have been signalized by numberless escapes; who never cross the river…
— Samuel Johnson
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Self-parody is the first portent of age.
— Larry McMurtry
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[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
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They say that in the hour before an earthquake the clouds hang leaden in the sky, the winds slows to a hot breath, and the…
— Chris Cleave
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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
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But it seems to me that a man cannot and ought not to say that he loves, he said. Why not? I asked. Because it…
— Leo Tolstoy
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It began as most thing begin. Not on a dark and stormy night. Not foreshadowed by ominous here comes the villain music, dire warning at…
— Karen Marie Moning
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
— Agnes de Mille
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There is, to be sure, sometimes only a small difference between being alert to possible danger and allowing oneself to become terrified to the point…
— Sherwin B. Nuland
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In the zone of perdition where my youth went as if to complete its education, one would have said that the portents of an imminent…
— Guy Debord
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In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful!alif. lam. mim. ra. these are verses of the scripture. that which is revealed unto thee from…
— Quran
Who Wrote These Portents Quotes
17 authors contributed a total of 18 Portents Quotes as follows: