21 Prophetic Quotes for You to Enjoy

Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray. Lord Byron

Life Smile Clouds Tomorrow Thou Beam Prophetic Ray Smiles Tint Storms Evening Away Rainbow

Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good. Petrarch

The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Past Out Carving Prophetic Loudly Poor Wars Peaceful Tomorrows

True artists are prophets. I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so lonely. Yoko Ono

Lonely Sense Prophetic Prophets True Because Artists Want

The perfect knowledge of events cannot be acquired without divine inspiration, since all prophetic inspiration receives its prime motivating force from God the creator, then from good fortune and nature. Nostradamus

My mother wanted to abort me, and that was basically a family secret. My grandfather stopped her and said that he had a dream and saw me perfectly. He was a prophetic dreamer, like Martin. Alveda King

Family Me Mother Secret Saw Dream Dreamer Martin Prophetic Had He Perfectly Like Said Stopped Wanted Grandfather Her Basically

People think when you get a record deal all your problems will go away. We know that the bigger we get, the more problems we'll have. I guess Puff Daddy was somewhat - what's the word? - prophetic in that respect. Brad Delson

You Respect People Problems Word Will Go Away Think Guess Record Record Deal More Prophetic Somewhat Know Deal Go Get Bigger Your Daddy Away Puff Puff Daddy

Down with politics and the art of the possible; up with pronouncements and the allure of the prophetic: It's the way of demagogues everywhere. Bret Stephens

Politics Art Down Way Everywhere Possible Prophetic Allure Up

The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well. Edith Pearlman

Natural World Language Prophetic Bleak Well Devoted Often Natural World Careful

Every Latter-day Saint should love the inspired Constitution of the United States - a nation with a spiritual foundation and a prophetic history - which nation the Lord has declared to be his base of operations in these latter days. Ezra Taft Benson

Love Spiritual History Constitution Nation Every States Latter Constitution Of The United States Prophetic Inspired Days Operations Lord Saint His Which Should Base United Foundation United States

Alan Moore is a prophetic writer. Gerard Way

Moore Prophetic Writer Alan

When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic. Jean Rostand

Truth Future Day Science Perspective One Day Intuition Some Rather Prophetic Through Never Misunderstanding Scientist His Error Times Than Current Any Often Gross Appear

We are prophetic interrogators. Why are so many people hungry? Why are so many people and families in our shelters? Why do we have one of six of our children poor, and one of three of these are children of color? 'Why?' is the prophetic question. Jim Wallis

People Three Our Hungry Prophetic Color Shelters Question Families Six So Many People Children Poor Many Why

Whitman will always be a strange and unwonted figure among his country's poets, and among English poets generally: a cropping out again, after so many centuries, of the old bardic prophetic strain. John Burroughs

Strange Old Will Country Out Poets Prophetic Generally Always His After Again Centuries Strain Whitman Figure English Many Among

The invention of ethical and political doctrines, which blossomed into our own social sciences, is a product of times when things appeared manageable. The same goes for the criticism of those doctrines, though as a voice from the past, this criticism proved prophetic. Joseph Brodsky

Political Criticism Invention Past Own Our Those Though Voice Prophetic Doctrines Sciences Proved Times Blossomed Manageable Same Goes Which Social Ethical Product Social Sciences Appeared Things

Jeremiah Wright is one of the greatest prophetic preachers that black America has produced. What I find striking is that many white brothers and sisters miss the fact that there would be no black church if the white church wasn't political and racist in refusing to worship with us. Michael Eric Dyson

Political Church Black White Striking Worship Black America Would Would-Be Find Brothers Brothers And Sisters Wright Fact Prophetic Miss Greatest Preachers Sisters America Refusing Us Produced Many

I have always felt that the truth is prophetic, and that if you describe precisely what you see and give it life with your imagination, then what you write ought to have lasting value, no matter what the mood of your prose. Paul Theroux

The field of ageing research is full of characters. We have hucksters claiming that cures for ageing can be bought and sold; prophetic seers, their hands extended for money, warning that immortality is nigh; and would-be Nobelists working methodically in laboratories in search of a pill to slow ageing. S. Jay Olshansky

The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His judgment belongs to a creative order; it is not formulated as a prophetic scripture. Salvatore Quasimodo

Creative Words Poet Judgment Punish Moral Someone Poetic Prophetic Never True True Poet His Order Scripture Certainty Uses Resistance Belongs

I don't make grandiose, prophetic statements in my songs. Billy Squier

Statements Prophetic Songs Make Grandiose

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