To be fulfilled, a prophecy needs lots of flexibility.
The events and prophecies of our time are preparing us for the Savior's Second Coming.
Everytime you read, you are walking among the dead, and, if you are listening, you just might hear prophecies.
To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself. [It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. It is best to plan for all eventualities then believe in success, and only cross the failure bridge if you come to it!]
Prophecy is rash, but it may be that the publication of D. T. Suzuki's first Essays in Zen Buddhism in 1927 will seem to future generations as great an intellectual event as William of Moerbeke's Latin translations of Aristotle in the thirteenth century or Marsiglio Ficino's of Plato in the fifteenth.
I always looked ahead.
Some women's faces are, in their brightness, a prophecy; and some, in their sadness, a history.
Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.
Al Gore is producing enough hot air to make his doomsday predictions about global warming a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Nostradamus himself confessed that the vague manner in which he wrote his "prophecies" was so that 'they could not possibly be understood until they were interpreted after the event and by it. '
Well, with prophecy you got to see what happens.
You are a coward,' she said, and with that one word wrote a denunciation, a biography, and a prophecy.
Yes,' she said. 'The Great Prophecy has begun. ' Pandemonium broke out.
I shall always consider the best guesser the best prophet.
Snobbery, being an aspiring failing, is sometimes the prophecy of better things.
Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10.
For the deeds of a man, not the words of a prophecy, are what shape his destiny.
I am pro-Israeli, not because of political expediency, but because I believe Israel is the fulfillment of Biblical prophecy.
Lose the pessimism, Ms. Lane. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy.
In spite of myself, I gave a snort. "Just once, I'd like to hear a simple, straightforward prophecy.
