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.
There is something in omens.
God has a prepared path for us to follow. We just have to read the omens he has left for us.
Trump's last name is an omen that he'll win the Republican nomination, since "trump" means "triumph. " One might suggest that this will constitute the triumph of insanity over reason, except that none of the other Republican candidates make any sense either. Trump just makes them seem less crazy by comparison.
God has prepared a path for everyone to follow.
Caesar recognized the omens, but he didn't believe they applied to him.
When a nation or family is about to flourish, there are sure to be happy omens; and when it is about to perish, there are sure to be unlucky omens.
Ancient history is oddly short on incorrect omens.
We give each other a wide berth even if we have the flu, let alone. . . So, I think that's part of the stigma that people who have diseases suffer. It's almost infectious. . . if somebody is closer to death, they're almost a bad omen and I think that's terrible.
Ask for an omen, then stone it when it comes -- de essentia hominum.
I'm not trying to imply I can keep up this silent, isolated facade all the time. Sometimes the wall I've erected around me comes crumbling down. It doesn't happen very often, but sometimes, before I even realize what's going on, there I am--naked and defenseless and totally confused. At times like that I always feel an omen calling out to me, like a dark, omnipresent pool of water. ~page 10
Learn to recognize omens, and follow them
It seemed like whatever I touched, I was breaking record after record. I just knew I was on. I completely destroyed all existing shooting records there - an omen of things to come.
When struck by a thunderbolt it is unnecessary to consult the Book of Dates as to the precise meaning of the omen.
Yes I remember my sixteenth. " Vitellius said "Wonderful omen! Happily chicken in my underpants. " "Excuse me.
Maybe nothing's so unfunny as an omen read wrong.
You can't second-guess ineffability, I always say.
Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause.
Things which are accidentally the causes either of hope or fear are called good or evil omens.
Boy, there's nothing worse than an inscrutable omen.
