Francois Rabelais Quotes

And not a man appears to tell their fate.

The fates have informed me that your examination in June will concern the Orb, and I am anxious to give you sufficient practice. Hermione snorted. "Well honestly... 'the fates have informed her'... Who sets the exam? She does!

Her eyes flicked over the cards, looked at Dimitri, then looked back at the cards. Her expression was blank. "You will lose what you value most, so treasure it while you can." She pointed to the Wheel of Fortune card. "The wheel is turning, always turning.

I've had something sort of like angel cards where you pull out an angel card that turns out, like, grandmother was watching over me. And I believe, in some way, I haven't been brave enough to engage with tarot cards mostly because they always end on a bad note. I'm sure if I understood tarot cards more I wouldn't be as fearful.

My whole life was foretold to me. An old Romany gypsy read my fortune.

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.

Well, with prophecy you got to see what happens.

A writer is a palmist, reading the lines of the planet.

I'm cursed with the gift of foresight.

I read 'The Crystal Cave' book by Mary Stewart, and I thought it was a really, really interesting part of the legend, in which Merlin could enter into the cave with these crystals and see reflections of the future in them and learn how to use that and harness those powers for himself.

Divining the future is a lot easier and cheaper than documenting the present.

The pollsters are engaged in an ancient and primitive rite—trying to predict the future.

Indeed, the hereditary gift of prophecy will go to the grave with me.

I do believe in prophecy.

I can't predict the future, nor will I. I'm not a fortune teller.

My mother watched the skies at evening for a portent of the morrow. A cloud that went over and then turned around and came back was an especially bad sign.

Even though I'm super into tarot and astrology, I don't believe in knowing too much about the future.

In spite of myself, I gave a snort. "Just once, I'd like to hear a simple, straightforward prophecy.

We're like Magic 8-Balls. After you ask your question and shake the 8-Ball, you read the answer in the little window. If you ever broke open a Magic 8-Ball with a hammer, you discovered that it contained a many-sided plastic object, with an answer on every facet, floating in a cylinder of murky blue fluid. The many-sided core held the answer to your question. My theory is that, as with our children, as with every surface of that geodesic dome inside the 8-Ball, every age we've ever been is who we are.

No one predicts the future. No one tries to.

Astrologers that future fates foreshow.

PROPHECY, n. The art and practice of selling one's credibility for future delivery.

I will look on the stars and look on thee, and read the page of thy destiny.

Men, forever tempted to lift the veil of the future-with the aid of computers or horoscopes or the intestines of sacrificial animals-have a worse record to show in these sciences than in almost any scientific endeavor.