Tim LaHaye Quotes

Coming events cast their shadows before.

Often do the spirits Of great events stride on before the event. And in today already walks tomorrow.

I must have been one of the least surprised people on earth on September 11. I felt very braced for that. I knew something like that was going to come.

I did feel like they were telling me that something like that was going to happen. Not specifically - not that planes were going to be flown into the World Trade Center or anything like that - but in the general sense.

Newspapers tell beforehand what is going to happen - maybe.

Let not thy divining heart Forethink me any ill; Destiny may take thy part, And may thy fears fulfill.

I am not going to say I told you so, but I did.

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

Well, I don't want to become a prognosticator.

From the time I was a kid, I always knew something was going to happen to me. Didn't know exactly what.

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.

Foreknowledge is a wonderful thing.

Oh, I knew he was gonna do that. I just knew he was gonna do that. He don't need Jannetty. I told you that off and on.

If I'd had any way of knowing that things were- as Lily Tomlin once said- going to get a whole lot worse before they got worse, I'm not sure how I would have slept that night.

Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace the day's disasters in his morning face.

My stomach lurched, an appetizer before the full portion of heartache I had a feeling was going to be served at some point soon.

She seemed to walk in an atmosphere of things about to happen.

Nobody heard anything ahead of time.

As soon as you talk about something that hasn't happened yet, it's bad luck.

It is not given to human beings, happily for them, for otherwise life would be intolerable, to foresee or to predict to any large extent the unfolding course of events.

Auguries are oft subtle...and dangerous - thou may deem they mean one thing when they mean something else altogether.

The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.

I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.