George Bernard Shaw Quotes

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

History is but the unrolled scroll of prophecy.

Marethyu stretched out his right hand and Aten took it in his. "Let me tell you this," the hook-handed man said. "We will meet again,you and I,in a different place and a different time." "You know this to be true?" "I do." "Because you have seen the future?" "Because I have been there.

The past is democratic, because it is a people. The future is despotic, because it is a caprice. Every man is alone in his prediction, just as each man is alone in a dream.

Two diverse gates there are of bodiless dreams, These of sawn ivory, and those of horn. Such dreams as issue where the ivory gleams Fly without fate, and turn our hopes to scorn. But dreams which issue through the burnished horn, What man soe'er beholds them on his bed, These work with virtue and of truth are born.

The past has revealed to me the structure of the future.

The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy.

Men may know many things by seeing; but no prophet can see before the event, nor what end waits for him.

Foreknowledge of the future makes it possible to manipulate both enemies and supporters.

Not many people give you a vision of what the future will bring.

I only remember the future.

O heaven! that one might read the book of fate, and see the revolution of the times.

Everything psychic is pregnant with the future.

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

In your dreams you can see yourself as a prophet saving the world.

Time will say nothing but I told you so.

What is your future, son of a king?' he heard Torina say. Landen smiled. 'Ask your crystal, daughter of a queen.' She traced his eyebrow with a finger. 'My crystal never tells me what I can see with my own eyes.

Sometimes, I think the things we see are shadows of the things to be; that what we plan we build

I think of the future all the time. All my life I've chased dreams of what could be. For the first time in my life, I've actually caught one. I'll give you one day at a time, Claire. But remember, I'm thousands of days ahead already.

If a dream can tell the future it can also thwart that future. For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come. He is bound to no one that the world unfold just so upon its course and those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?

You came so that you could learn about your dreams," said the old woman. "And dreams are the language of God. When he speaks in our language, I can interpret what he has said. But if he speaks in the language of the soul, it is only you who can understand.

There is something in omens.

The days are made on a loom whereof the warp and woof are past and future time. They are majestically dressed, as if every god brought a thread to the skyey web.