Divinatory Quotes & Sayings

Wherever we've gone around the world, we've found quite significant gaps: the holy texts, no matter which one you turn to, has ambiguity in it around slavery. That, we knew, was being used as justification by slavers all over the world. — Andrew Forrest

A penumbra of sombre dignity has descended over his reputation. — James Atlas

People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars. — Ernest Hemingway,

I want to do something where the script is there. That doesn't mean that I won't need to come in, or be asked to come in, and help develop something. Things can always get better. There's always room for improvement. But, I want to do something that's the best version of whatever it's supposed to be. — Steve Antin

I've learned that my readings of others' work often has little connection to their intentions. This doesn't mean that my response is wrong, and it doesn't make the author's views less right. Poets, like their poems, are "hopeful monsters". — Alice Fulton

A piece of writing is only worth doing if you're a different person at the end of the process than you were at the beginning. — Brian Morton

Cartoons have always been an enjoyment to me ... a relaxation ... I get my ideas from everyday events. — Matthew Ashford

The noblest calling in the world is motherhood. True motherhood is the most beautiful of all arts, the greatest of all professions. She who can paint a masterpiece, or who can write a book that will influence millions, deserve the plaudits and admiration of mankind; but she who rears successfully a family of healthy, beautiful sons and daughters whose immortal souls will exert influence throughout the ages long after paintings shall have faded, and books and statues shall have decayed or been destroyed, deserves the highest honor that man can give, and the choicest blessings of God. — David O. McKay

The queen lives. — Laura Thalassa

Oh, the weather outside is weather. — Paul Rudd

Wants keep pace with wealth always. — J.G. Holland

Each of us, Leonard Read said, must become candles of liberty in the darkness of collectivist ideas. The brighter we each shine through our understanding and ability to articulate the meaning of freedom, the more we will be beacons that can attract others. — Richard Ebeling

Back to him she would never go, but in her lonely life still lived the sweet memory of that happy time when she believed in him and he was all in all to her. — Louisa May Alcott

I'll be back later! Put that champagne on ice! — Jackie Williams

Astrology is one of the intuitive methods like the I Ching, geomantics, and other divinatory procedures. It is based upon the synchronicity principle, meaningful coincidence ... Astrology is a naively projected psychology in which the different attitudes and temperaments of man are represented as gods and identified with planets and zodiacal constellations. — Carl Jung

Books have long been instruments of the divinatory arts. — Alberto Manguel

Being (who you need to be) and doing (what you need to do) are prerequisites for having what you want to have. — Hal Elrod