#prophet

The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#carving #loudly #out #past #peaceful

I am not a prophet. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#i #i am #prophet

The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence. ↗

— Paul Simon

#prophets #silence #sounds #subway #tenements

It's a tremendous responsibility to be direct descendants of the prophet Muhammad. This family has had the burden of leadership on its shoulders for 1,400 years. I'm not going to drop the ball on my shift. ↗

— King Abdullah II

#ball #burden #descendants #direct #drop

My dear colleague James Hansen, I believe, has finally gone off the deep end... The global warming 'time bomb,' 'disastrous climate changes that spiral dynamically out of humanity's control.' These are the words of an apocalyptic prophet, not a rational scientist. ↗

— Nicholas Drapela

#bomb #changes #climate #colleague #control

I thought some of Mrs. White's material was prophetic. I felt some of her insights were extremely helpful and I regarded her as a sister in the Lord. I wasn't out to attack Ellen White's character. ↗

— Walter Martin

#character #ellen #extremely #felt #helpful

A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity, it is an occupational risk. ↗

— Oswald Mosley

#achiever #mind #must #never #occasional

Hearts melt when the Beloved of Allah is mentioned. ↗

— Habib Kadhim al-Saqqaf

#god #hearts #islam #love #prophet-muhammad

I'm not a prophet, but I always thought it was natural for dictatorships to fall. I remember in 1989, two months before the fall of the Berlin Wall, had you said it was going to happen no one would have believed you. The system seemed powerful and unbreakable. Suddenly overnight it blew away like dust. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#away #before #believed #berlin #berlin wall

I am not a prophet in any sense of the word, and I entertain an active and intense dislike of the foregoing mixture of optimism, fatalism, and conservatism. ↗

— Herbert Croly

#am #any #conservatism #dislike #entertain