Prophet Quote by Tom Lehrer Download Open image “Always predict the worst, and you'll be hailed as a prophet.” — Tom Lehrer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Prophet Worst
If you are anticipating the worst while hoping for the best, you will get the worst. The things that happen to you are in… — Harold Sherman Copy Share Image
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
I've never predicted anything. All I have ever said is, that we will do the very best we can. — Bobby Knight Copy Share Image
I'm no good at predicting what will endure with people. I only know what speaks to me. — J. Robbins Copy Share Image
It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning...and let anything better come as a surprise. — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
Predicting has a spotty record in science fiction. I've had some failures. On the other hand, I also predicted the fall of the Berlin… — David Brin Copy Share Image
Be true! Be true! Be true! Show freely to the world, if not your worst, yet some trait whereby the worst may be inferred! — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I confidently predict the collapse of capitalism and the beginning of history. Something will go wrong in the machinery that converts money into money,… — Margaret Drabble Copy Share Image
Plagiarize, plagiarize, / Let no man's work evade your eyes, / Remember why the good Lord made your eyes, / Don't shade your eyes,… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
I ache for the touch of your lips dear, but much more for the touch of your whips dear. — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
When someone makes a move Of which we don't approve, Who is it that always intervenes? U.N. and O.A.S., They have their place, I… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
I'm not tempted to write a song about George W. Bush. I couldn't figure out what sort of song I would write. That's the… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
Don't solicit for your sister, it's not nice. Unless you get a good percentage of her price. — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years. — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
“I am never forget the day I first meet the great Lobachevsky. In one word he told me secret of success in mathematics: Plagiarize!… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
Counting in octal is just likst counting in decimal--if you don't use your thumbs. — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
Disclaimer: If anyone disagrees with anything I say, I am quite prepared to not only retract it, but also to deny under oath I… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
I don't want to satirise George Bush and his puppeteers, I want to vaporise them. — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
San Francisco is a city of twenty-something millionaire white kids named Doug. — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
The writings of latter-day prophets clearly teach that the sorrows and sufferings endured by Adam and Eve upon their leaving the Garden of Eden… — Daniel K Judd Copy Share Image
Except in these latter-day songs, [Bob] Dylan is a grizzled old prophet who's already been to hell and back. — Jay Michaelson Copy Share Image
Islam believes that Jesus is a prophet, and they honour him - highly - and they respect him, and they follow his teachings. So,… — Haaz Sleiman Copy Share Image
The world around us is an increasingly hostile and sinful place. Occasionally that splashes onto us, and perhaps, in the case of a few… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
They are the gateway for our modern esthetic development, the prophets of the new time. They are most of all, the primitives of the… — Marsden Hartley Copy Share Image
Amidst the flood of dangerous reading, I plead for my Master's book; I call upon you not to forget the book of the soul.… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
I can hardly believe what these 12 caricatures [about Prophet Muhammad] have caused in the world. We Danes feel like we have been placed… — Anders Fogh Rasmussen Copy Share Image
There is no salvation without accepting Joseph Smith. If Joseph Smith was verily a prophet, and if he told the truth...no man can reject… — Joseph Fielding Smith Copy Share Image
A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
I'm no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls. — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Significantly, God in Genesis 1 pronounces the rest of creation "good" before humanity is created. The psalmist and the prophets Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel… — Rodney Clapp Copy Share Image