Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event.

Have the courage of your desire.

It is the mind which creates the world around us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched.

It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all.

The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one.

Money is time. With money I buy for cheerful use the hours which otherwise would not in any sense be mine; nay, which would make me their miserable bondsman.

Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event.

That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous.

For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice.

Human creatures have a mervellous power of adapting themselves to necessity.

Parks are but pavement disguised with a growth of grass.

One of the shining moments of my day is that when, having returned a little weary form an afternoon walk, I exchange boots for slippers, out-of-doors coat for easy, familiar, shabby jacket, and, in my deep, soft-elbowed chair, await the tea-tray.

Perhaps it is while drinking tea that I most of all enjoy the sense of leisure.

The mere chink of cups and saucers tunes the mind to happy repose.

Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.

If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.

Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.

Left Behind takes what to some people may be unbelievable predictions from the Bible and shows how they might play out. It makes the events of biblical prophecy understandable and thus believable.

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

My hope that the Church will emerge as a strong leader in society is just that a hope. What I described in The Catholic Moment is not a prophecy but the outline of a possibility. There are no guarantees that my hopes expressed in The Catholic Moment will ever be realised.

If you are an antichrist, you won't believe in the bible prophecy from the beginning. Which means, you won't believe that physical immortality will become possible.

I don't want what I am saying to sound like a prophecy or anything like an analysis of modern society... these are only feelings I have, and I am the least speculative man on earth.

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.

In the computer field, the moment of truth is a running program; all else is prophecy.

I wanted to rock back and forth between myth and distant futures, yesterday, today, and tomorrow. It felt a bit like prophecy and a bit like storytelling.

America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description.

Youth, however, can afford to enjoy even its melancholy; for the ultimate fact of which that melancholy is a prophecy is a long way off.

The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

Which prophecy of Christ we see wonderfully to be verified, insomuch that the whole course of the Church to this day may seem nothing else but a verifying of the said prophecy.

Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event.

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

You have to take Bible prophecy literally, just like everything else in the Bible.

Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.

Every theory is a self-fulfilling prophecy that orders experience into the framework it provides.

Well, with prophecy you got to see what happens.

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

To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10.

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

A self-fulfilling prophecy is an assumption or prediction that, purely as a result of having been made, cause the expected or predicted event to occur and thus confirms its own 'accuracy.'

Prophecy is an intercept from the mind of an all-knowing and all-seeing and all-powerful God.

Prophecy is what we all have to go by now.

I had breathed in the atmosphere created by Henri Christophe, the monarch of incredible aims, much more surprising than all the kings invented by the surrealists.

Wal-Mart does not do big mergers, though it will buy much smaller competitors in so-called 'tuck-in acquisitions.'

In the Middle East in the summertime, to keep cool, a lot of people sleep on the rooftops.

The State thrives on war - unless, of course, it is defeated and crushed - expands on it, glories in it.