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“If psychics are real, it implies that the universe is far vaster and stranger than conventional perception would state. If psychics can talk to the dead, that removes the sting of mortality and loss. It also suggests there is predestination, a way to cheat the vagaries of Fate with foreknowledge. The cost for believing in them is tiny indeed compared to that.”

Fate Psychic Foretelling

Book:Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

Source: Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

“Nothing good can come from trying to guess the gods' minds.”

Fiction Future Mythology Oracle Greek God Foretelling

Book:Domna, Part One: The Sun God's Daughter

Source: Domna, Part One: The Sun God's Daughter

“When the waiter brought the cheese-board, there was a large carrot carved in the shape of a mermaid sitting between the Dolcelatte and the Pecorino. Teo could have sworn that the carrot-mermaid flexed her tail and plunged her little hand inside a smelly Gorgonzola. 'Tyromancy, ye know,' remarked the mermaid. 'The Ancient Art of Divination by Cheese.' Then she pulled her tiny hand out and inspected the green cheese-mold on her tiny fingers. 'Lackaday!' she moaned. 'Stinking! It goes poorly for Venice and Teodora, it do!”

Humour Cheese Mermaid Divination Foretelling

Book:The Undrowned Child

Source: The Undrowned Child

“A blight had fallen on the trees and shrubs; and the wind, at length beginning to break the unnatural stillness that had prevailed all day, sighed heavily from time to time, as though foretelling in grief the ravages of the coming storm. The bat skimmed in fantastic flights through the heavy air, and the ground was alive with crawling things, whose instinct brought them forth to swell and fatten in the rain.”

Grief Break Alive Air Tree Wind Rain Instinct Heavy Storm Flight Fantastic Fallen Length Stillness Bats Unnatural Spooky Crawling Blight Shrubs Foretelling

Book:Novels

Source: Novels

“By not foretelling the ending to yourself, as a writer, you're able to open up the canvas and say, "I'm going to go here. I'm going to go there." It's just a little bit more freeing than a stand-alone procedural, where you work backwards from the end.”

Littles Ends Able Bits Little Bit Canvas Backwards Stand Alone Foretelling

Author:Veena Sud

“Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement.”

Ifs Life Inspirational Desire Process Magic Creation Elements Achievement Instruments Foretelling

Book:The Professor's House

Source: The Professor's House

“A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.”

“All Pretences of foretelling by Astrology, are Deceits; for this manifest Reason, because the Wise and Learned, who can only judge whether there be any Truth in this Science, do all unanimously agree to laugh at and despise it; and none but the poor ignorant Vulgar give it any Credit.”

Giving Reason Science Poor Laughing Wise Judging Accounts Agree Credit Ignorant Deceit Manifest Despise Vulgar Astrology Pretence Foretelling

Book:The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift: Accurately Revised in Twelve Volumes, Adorned with Copper-plates, with Some Account of the Author's Life, and Notes Historical and Explanatory

Source: The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift: Accurately Revised in Twelve Volumes, Adorned with Copper-plates, with Some Account of the Author's Life, and Notes Historical and Explanatory

“Our fate is something which exists outside ourselves, and which once revealed expresses the meaning of our lives. Apart, however, from soothsayers who claim to have a means of foretelling exactly what will befall us, this kind of fate is only normally revealed after a life has ended. Only then can the meaning of that life be understood.”

Kind Mean Life Is Our Lives Fate Understood Claims Foretelling

Book:Politics and Fate

Source: Politics and Fate

“And if Sarah Palin whose Web site put and today scrubbed bull's-eyes targets on 20 Representatives, including Gabby Giffords, does not repudiate her own part - however tangential - in amplifying violence and violent imagery in American politics, she must be dismissed from politics. She must be repudiated by the members of her own party. And if they fail to do so, each one of them must be judged to have silently defended this tactic that today proved so awfully foretelling. And they must in turn be dismissed by the responsible members of their own party.”