prophecy

Even if you succeeded, you heard the prophecy: unleashing Hera’s rage would mean your destruction.

Rick Riordan -- The Lost Hero

That would not fulfil the prophecy.

C.S. Lewis -- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

You have the gift of prophecy.

Rick Riordan -- The Last Olympian

He’s got the gift of prophecy, supposedly.

Rick Riordan -- The Son of Neptune

Yet the boy fitted the ancient prophecy so precisely.

Frank Herbert -- Dune

All his prophecies come true.

Orson Scott Card -- Red Prophet

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I’d hoped the Augurs had, at some point in time, expanded on their original prophecy—perhaps even described what the Aspirants should expect.

Sabaa Tahir -- An Ember in the Ashes

As he carefully unfolded the paper, he knew that the Theorem’s prophecy had been fulfilled.

John Green -- An Abundance of Katherines

Though it wasn’t exactly prophecy, Horace was right about one thing: nobody recognized me.

Ransom Riggs -- Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

Even when she was not channeling prophecies, Rachel was a wise young lady.

Rick Riordan -- The Trials of Apollo

And if it were an indication of some fell deed or prophecy, he’d have the girl hanging by nightfall.

Sarah J. Maas -- Throne of Glass

Do you have some prophecy that I do not?

Pam Munoz Ryan -- Esperanza Rising

Self-fulfilling prophecies, you think?

Katja Millay -- The Sea of Tranquility

It was like a curious fulfilment of Father Huismans’s prophecy about the retreat of African Africa, and the success of the European graft.

V.S. Naipaul -- A Bend in the River

But I allowed myself to plunge on toward Coney Island, thus making sure to help fulfill Sophie’s prophecy about the three of us: that we would become "the best of friends."

William Styron -- Sophie’s Choice

We did not think such things were prophecies.

Margaret Atwood -- Cat’s Eye

Has your gift of prophecy—

Rick Riordan -- The Blood of Olympus

I had my own doubts, but would not voice them for fear of making self-fulfilling prophecies.

Diana Gabaldon -- Outlander

The prophecy she’d spoken soon after we’d been turned into vampires haunted me.

Bella Forrest -- A Shade of Vampire

Prophecy runs in my family: will you permit me to read your palm?

Donna Tartt -- The Goldfinch

And when the human beings listened to it, they secretly trembled, hearing in it a prophecy of their future doom.

George Orwell -- Animal Farm

I can see it like a prophecy.

John Steinbeck -- The Grapes of Wrath

I paid him no mind, but not long afterward his prophecy came true.

James McBride -- The Color of Water

I have no doubt about the prophecy of the golden carp.

Rudolfo Anaya -- Bless Me, Ultima

But tonight she was addressing her prophecy and greetings to Okonkwo, and so everyone in his family listened.

Chinua Achebe -- Things Fall Apart

One of his brother Masons had revealed to Pierre the following prophecy concerning Napoleon, drawn from the Revelation of St. John.

Leo Tolstoy -- War and Peace

I am prone to let the doctors’ prophecy rest and keep my thoughts to myself.

Barbara Kingsolver -- The Poisonwood Bible

And nothing about his losing his leg last voyage, according to the prophecy.

Herman Melville -- Moby Dick

In this condition, I thought myself the most miserable creature on earth, and the prophecy of my father came afresh into my thoughts.

Daniel Defoe -- Robinson Crusoe

John had been exiled to the island of Patmos, where an angel visited him and commanded him to write down a series of prophecies to various churches.

Todd Burpo -- Heaven Is for Real

But Kino’s face shone with prophecy.

John Steinbeck -- The Pearl

Not all of us are the subject of terrible prophecies?

Rick Riordan -- The Battle of the Labyrinth

"I will make a prophecy," he said.

Agatha Christie -- Murder On The Orient Express

The caterpillars’ prophecies were always so vague.

Frank Beddor -- The Looking Glass Wars

He might as well have been the Sybil who tore up the leaves of prophecy that nobody would attend to.

George Bernard Shaw -- Pygmalion

He saw that this somber picture was not a fact of the present, but a mere prophecy.

Stephen Crane -- The Red Badge of Courage

But this time these prophecies seemed more solid.

Elie Wiesel -- Night

Astrological prophecy never held much interest or credibility for him, but he knew there were those in the Church who followed it very closely.

Dan Brown -- The Da Vinci Code

And remember the prophecy, he added.

Micheal Scott -- The Alchemyst

The house, thinly peopled and silent, gave distressing prophecy of failure.

James Joyce -- Dubliners

"Indeed," said Maximilian, "I have often been almost tempted to attribute to him the gift of prophecy; at all events, he has a wonderful power of foretelling any future good."

Alexandre Dumas -- The Count of Monte Cristo

The — the prophecy�the prediction�Trelawney�

J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Anyway, Geb and Nut wanted to have kids, but the king of the gods, Ra—he was the sun god—heard this bad prophecy that a child of Nut—

Rick Riordan -- The Red Pyramid

A number of The Times which might, because of changes in political alignment, or mistaken prophecies uttered by Big Brother, have been rewritten a dozen times still stood on the files bearing its original date, and no other copy existed to contradict it.

George Orwell -- 1984

Take it as a lie—or a prophecy.

H.G. Wells -- The Time Machine

Our fate is to become one, and yet many-This is not prophecy, but description.

Ralph Ellison -- Invisible Man