Paul Dano Quotes

Foreknowledge is a wonderful thing.

It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.

Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing.

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

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

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

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

I'm a fortune teller, but I don't like to know my future.

She sees things — things that might happen, things that are coming. But it’s very subjective. The future isn’t set in stone. Things change.

I'm not in the business of reading tea leaves. I don't have a crystal ball.

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

I went to a fashion show, and this silver-haired guy was staring at me with these piercing water-blue eyes. It scared me because I absolutely saw and knew my entire future.

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

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

I'm cursed with the gift of foresight.

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.

In late 1999, I was walking down Ventura Boulevard in Sherman Oaks with my late producing partner Sharyn Lane after a day of editing 'Sordid Lives.' We passed the Psychic Book Store and decided to go in and get a reading. We weren't believers, but what the hell? We needed a sign.

I believe that we have free will. I believe we get the chance to make choices in our lives. Not everything is set in stone from the moment we're born. We choose our destiny, our ultimate fate. But I also think that we don't realize the choices we've made until after we make them. We're racing down a freeway, only to realize we've missed all the exits, and the only direction we can go is dead ahead.

Before you leave, the fortune teller reminds you that the future is never set in stone.

As for omens, there is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.

I feel déjà vu a lot. Someone said that means that you're living your life the right way because maybe you have foresight, because then, when something actually happens, it feels like déjà vu. I like to think of fate that way.

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?

One shouldn't know the future.

Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared.