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  • Astrological prophecy never held much interest or credibility for him, but he knew there were those in the Church who followed it very closely.†   (source)
  • 'I'm not making prophecies,' said Harry.†   (source)
  • He'd had a prophecy from the Oracle.†   (source)
  • And if it were an indication of some fell deed or prophecy, he'd have the girl hanging by nightfall.†   (source)
  • But tonight she was addressing her prophecy and greetings to Okonkwo, and so everyone in his family listened.†   (source)
  • The caterpillars' prophecies were always so vague.†   (source)
  • Though it wasn't exactly prophecy, Horace was right about one thing: nobody recognized me.†   (source)
  • * The way Canadians select hockey players is a beautiful example of what the sociologist Robert Merton famously called a "self-fulfilling prophecy", a situation where "a false definition, in the beginning … evokes a new behavior which makes the original false conception come true."†   (source)
  • The stallion is the khal of khals promised in ancient prophecy, child.†   (source)
  • One was yellow with THANK YOU JESUS FOR LOVING ME written in big letters; another said PROPHECIES FULFILLED and was covered with coins made of tinfoil.†   (source)
  • Prophecy runs in my family: will you permit me to read your palm?†   (source)
  • A new prophecy.†   (source)
  • She had been thinking of her mother for most of the five hours Jack had been gone, her mother's prophecy that Jack would never come to anything.†   (source)
  • Prophecies of revenge, spoken in a wretched language only he knew, rolled from his tongue.†   (source)
  • I paid him no mind, but not long afterward his prophecy came true.†   (source)
  • I am prone to let the doctors' prophecy rest and keep my thoughts to myself.†   (source)
  • Later, these musings about fire would come to seem like prophecy.†   (source)
  • His parents, fearing the terrible prophecy that he would kill his father and marry his mother, have him taken out to the country to be killed.†   (source)
  • From that day on Mohammed thought of little else but the fulfillment of that prophecy.†   (source)
  • And remember the prophecy, he added.†   (source)
  • In order to fulfill the prophecy, she must voluntarily climb to a cliff above the Big River and from there jump to her death onto the rocks below.†   (source)
  • Self-fulfilling prophecy, I think.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • Failure evolved into a self-fulfilling prophecy.†   (source)
  • We call prophecies like these Doomsday prophecies.†   (source)
  • It's the self-fulfilling prophecy of madness.†   (source)
  • But this time these prophecies seemed more solid.†   (source)
  • I'd hoped the Augurs had, at some point in time, expanded on their original prophecy—perhaps even described what the Aspirants should expect.†   (source)
  • A weak rabbit who can't hope to get far by fighting sometimes tries to make himself important by other means and prophecy is a favorite.†   (source)
  • Prophecy.†   (source)
  • But the lucidity of her old age allowed her to see, and she said so many times, that the cries of children in their mothers' wombs are not announcements of ventriloquism or a faculty for prophecy but an unmistakable sign of an incapacity for love.†   (source)
  • As he carefully unfolded the paper, he knew that the Theorem's prophecy had been fulfilled.†   (source)
  • He was writing a book on prophecy and rattled on about it as they all sat in the living room.†   (source)
  • They had the power of prophecy and clairvoyance.†   (source)
  • If anything, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.†   (source)
  • A few minutes later Mike Strank's dark prophecy came true.†   (source)
  • Self-fulfilling prophecies, you think?†   (source)
  • Zoey, you have never before manifested an affinity for prophecy or visions.†   (source)
  • Had they overheard a prophecy?†   (source)
  • They had also grown accustomed to the youngest daughter's prophecies.†   (source)
  • "Sounds like the old self-fulfilling prophecy to me," Kate said.†   (source)
  • The half-vampire, half-human, ruling-over-vampirekind, enslaving-the-human-race subject of prophecy that Elysia had been watching out for for centuries.†   (source)
  • I have no doubt about the prophecy of the golden carp.†   (source)
  • He slowed but didn't stop, taking time only to note a few of the titles, including one about the prophecies of Michel de Nostredame.†   (source)
  • Like a self-fulfilling prophecy.†   (source)
  • He condemned the folks who got creative with faith, like Marcus and his followers, who spoke in prophecies and had visions of a feminine divinity clothed in the letters of the Greek alphabet.†   (source)
  • Our fate is to become one, and yet many-This is not prophecy, but description.†   (source)
  • Burton certainly agreed, but felt in an odd way that his prophecy had come true.†   (source)
  • They say the birth song can be a prophecy, for sure.†   (source)
  • It's so inevitable it became a self-fulfilling prophecy.†   (source)
  • It may be prophecy.†   (source)
  • And it may gratify you to bring word to Mompellion of how thoroughly God has fulfilled his prophecies regarding my family.†   (source)
  • She makes pronouncements that Ivanito doesn't understand, stays up all night hearing prophecies in her head, forgives her father and ex-husband long lists of past trespasses.†   (source)
  • When she launched into prophecies of eternal damnation, he told her that God was my judge, not they.†   (source)
  • The shades traveling to the underworld and those summoned back by sacrifice to provide prophecies were said to stop on their way to speak with him.†   (source)
  • Having great respect for the druid's councils, but ignorant of the latest prophecy, the king relented, and Cuchulain ran off to the smithy.†   (source)
  • Still it was not those illnesses or even the ice that marked the beginning of the trouble, that self-fulfilled prophecy that Shadrack carried on his tongue.†   (source)
  • Thanks for your prophecy.†   (source)
  • "And I wonder how the prophecy will work out," said Aravis, "and what the great danger is that you're to save Archenland from."†   (source)
  • He shrank away from it as though it were a manifestation of virulent prophecies scribbled like obscene graffiti on the walls of holy places.†   (source)
  • The killing took place during a lunar cycle known as the ides, fulfilling a prophecy by a local soothsayer.†   (source)
  • "How convenient," Kessell mused, wondering if the subject of his dream had been a coincidence or a prophecy.†   (source)
  • The prophecy she'd spoken soon after we'd been turned into vampires haunted me.†   (source)
  • Drained by the arduous interrogation, blinded by exhaustion and her abaya, Natalie could think of no reason to doubt the old preacher's prophecy.†   (source)
  • Prophecy's sort of a waste of time, really.†   (source)
  • Mentally, she's always in some drizzly kirk of her own inheriting: and I'm in some Doric temple--clouds tearing through pillars--eagles bearing prophecies out of the sky.†   (source)
  • Either Preacher Henry was too old, or the Afro-Repose congregation had tired of his scolding and awful prophecies, for he no longer preached except on those Sundays when Afro-Repose's new minister, a light-skinned college graduate, was out of town.†   (source)
  • 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."†   (source)
  • This prophecy is underwritten by the tendency of the rich to do this already.†   (source)
  • It was like a curious fulfilment of Father Huismans's prophecy about the retreat of African Africa, and the success of the European graft.†   (source)
  • These lines were writ By Morgan, free, Who shall, the day he dies, See this prophecy.†   (source)
  • That, of course, is true, but all the same, Yurochka, believe it or not, those who know have seen the book, the Mason's prophecies, one hundred and forty years it's been lying under a stone, and now, it's my considered opinion, Yurochka, we've been sold down the river, sold for a song.†   (source)
  • Roy had been in trouble before, but this new trouble seemed to be the beginning of the fulfillment of a prophecy.†   (source)
  • His prophecy was unheeded.†   (source)
  • Oh, I know those prophecies as well as the back of my hand-only nothing is here to warn me when it is now.†   (source)
  • The — the prophecy…the prediction…Trelawney…†   (source)
  • Even when she was not channeling prophecies, Rachel was a wise young lady.†   (source)
  • Not all of us are the subject of terrible prophecies?†   (source)
  • Where were you a few weeks ago when we battled to retrieve the prophecy for the Dark Lord?†   (source)
  • That prophecy was for a different Apollo!†   (source)
  • She's not trying to bring about her prophecy—she's trying to prevent the big one.†   (source)
  • Because whether or not you are the child of the prophecy, Kronos thinks you might be.†   (source)
  • It is pleasant to think that Bomoko understood the prophecy in his words: "Institutions endure."†   (source)
  • We call prophecies like these prophecies of redemption.†   (source)
  • "The prophecy did not refer to a woman," said Dumbledore.†   (source)
  • Newton was deep into numerology, prophecy, and astrology, but what does—†   (source)
  • You see, the prophecy does not mean you have to do anything!†   (source)
  • Part of a prophecy I had years ago … well, some of the lines make sense to me, now.†   (source)
  • "In terms of prophecy," Teabing said, "we are currently in an epoch of enormous change.†   (source)
  • The Fates ordained a prophecy eons ago, when this creature was born.†   (source)
  • "Percy, I didn't know who the prophecy was talking about.†   (source)
  • Father told us Tata Kuvudundu conducts the sin of false prophecy.†   (source)
  • Now, Potter, either give us the prophecy, or watch your little friend die the hard way!†   (source)
  • Marley fulfilled the prophecy, committing the ultimate Dog Beach heresy.†   (source)
  • Nicholas Flamel was the immortal of the prophecy.†   (source)
  • Something about that prophecy definitely isn't normal.†   (source)
  • When Chiron first learned about Thalia, he assumed she was the one in the prophecy.†   (source)
  • But, Percy, this means the prophecy might not be about you.†   (source)
  • Chiron … your prophecy from the Oracle … it was about Kronos, wasn't it?†   (source)
  • It has everything to do with the prophecy.†   (source)
  • "Prophecy—Unclear—Flight," Jake Mason read from the notes on the blueprint.†   (source)
  • My Lady, when one has lived with prophecy for so long, the moment of revelation is a shock.†   (source)
  • Yet I reached out with all my willpower and sought the voice of prophecy, drawing it to me.†   (source)
  • I know the prophecy, Hekate snapped, her dress now shot through with red and black veins.†   (source)
  • 'Give it to me,' growled a voice in his ear, 'give me the prophecy —'†   (source)
  • I thought about the line in Annabeth's prophecy: You shall rise or fall by the ghost king's hand.†   (source)
  • SCORPIUS: Wasn't aware that there was a prophecy, what prophecy?†   (source)
  • You, my daughter, will turn sixteen on the morrow, just as the prophecy says.†   (source)
  • Like that prophecy in Latin back at camp, or that dream about the wolf.†   (source)
  • 'The thing that smashed was merely the record of the prophecy kept by the Department of Mysteries.†   (source)
  • Were you—were you speaking a prophecy?†   (source)
  • I thought about the prophecy made at Half-Blood Hill, what seemed like a million years ago.†   (source)
  • And on them, written in fluorescent paint, a prophecy.†   (source)
  • What did the prophecy say exactly, my dear?†   (source)
  • The two that are one and the one that is all the very first prophecy Abraham speaks of.†   (source)
  • He told Voldemort about the prophecy, it was him, he listened outside the door, Trelawney told me!†   (source)
  • Thus was the prophecy made true that the Lisan al-Gaib might be both dead and alive.†   (source)
  • Kronos had done it to bring another chess piece into play-another chance to control the prophecy.†   (source)
  • I tried to convince myself that its prophecy had come to completion.†   (source)
  • DELPHI: No. To fulfill the prophecy, this has to be you, not a puppet of you.†   (source)
  • Tell me the prophecy you heard in the grove.†   (source)
  • We don't even know if the prophecy is about you.†   (source)
  • With a sudden chill, I remembered the words of the prophecy: the child of Athena's final stand.†   (source)
  • "I fear the prophecy says you do need our help," Chiron said.†   (source)
  • Do you believe them to be the basis of the prophecy?†   (source)
  • What of the harmonics inherent in the act of prophecy?†   (source)
  • "If Voldemort had never heard of the prophecy, would it have been fulfilled?†   (source)
  • And why did he want to steal a prophecy about me?†   (source)
  • Faintly scrawled words underneath it read: PROPHECY?†   (source)
  • I thought about a snippet of prophecy I'd heard in the grove: something about Indiana.†   (source)
  • I remembered the words of the prophecy: The Titan's curse must one withstand.†   (source)
  • He believed that in killing you, he was destroying the danger the prophecy had outlined.†   (source)
  • I wondered if I was looking at prophecies that had come true.†   (source)
  • He had not told Ron, Hermione or anyone else what the prophecy had contained.†   (source)
  • SCORPIUS: But if the prophecy is inevitable why are we here trying to influence it?†   (source)
  • And she said: "You spoke of your Reverend Mother …. and I've heard words of legend and prophecy.†   (source)
  • "It's the Great Prophecy, isn't it?" a girl called out.†   (source)
  • He's tricked us again, given himself another chance to control the prophecy.†   (source)
  • Remember the prophecy: the two that are one, the one that is all.†   (source)
  • I had a feeling she was thinking about her prophecy.†   (source)
  • Before Voldemort curses himself she's going to kill you and so break the prophecy and ….†   (source)
  • Maybe if you told me the last line of the prophecy, it would help.†   (source)
  • The prophecy was clear: The bane of Olympus shows the trail.†   (source)
  • "The Mahdi will be aware of things others cannot see," went the prophecy.†   (source)
  • The line of their prophecy came back to him: The forge and dove shall break the cage.†   (source)
  • Dee knew of the famous prophecy from the Book of Abraham the Mage.†   (source)
  • I believe our enemies want to cut us off from every possible source of prophecy.†   (source)
  • Harry, take the prophecy, grab Neville and run!†   (source)
  • … In other words, you are free to choose your way, quite free to turn your back on the prophecy!†   (source)
  • This kid in the prophecy … he or she couldn't be like, a Cyclops?†   (source)
  • Can't you tell us what the prophecy means?†   (source)
  • I had a bad feeling the prophecy was connected to that.†   (source)
  • It's got something to do with your prophecy.†   (source)
  • The prophecy was hot with the heat of his clutching hand as he held it out.†   (source)
  • IJAZ: prophecy that by its very nature cannot be denied; immutable prophecy.†   (source)
  • I told her that prophecies can be broken I told her the whole logic of prophecies is questionable-†   (source)
  • Rachel leaned forward and steepled her fingers, as she did when she spoke a prophecy.†   (source)
  • Much of Rachel's Great Prophecy is still a mystery to me, but one thing is clear.†   (source)
  • The book you lost I am also the Guardian who appears in the prophecies in the Book, Flamel snapped.†   (source)
  • But Voldemort continues to set store by the prophecy.†   (source)
  • Zoe had known all along that the Oracle's prophecy was about her: she would die by a parent's hand.†   (source)
  • He dreams with the Fremen—of prophecies and messiahs.†   (source)
  • I mean, I knew Chiron had received a prophecy from the Oracle many years ago.†   (source)
  • I'd heard it speak prophecies twice before.†   (source)
  • Imagine, please, just for a moment, that you had never heard that prophecy!†   (source)
  • She just issued a prophecy—Jason's prophecy to save Hera!†   (source)
  • For now, it is our only source of prophecy.†   (source)
  • DELPHI: You're mistaken, child, prophecies are the future.†   (source)
  • He knew the prophecy had been made, though he did not know its full contents.†   (source)
  • There are several prophecies about twins.†   (source)
  • The prophecy says at least two of you will die.†   (source)
  • Piper whispered to Rachel, "What's she talking about—the Great Prophecy?†   (source)
  • You say you knew Abraham you know then how accurate his prophecies and foretellings were.†   (source)
  • Oh, yes, I hear you critics out there: You're the god of prophecy, Apollo.†   (source)
  • 'No,' said Tonks musingly, 'no, I suppose it's not really prophecy you're doing, is it?†   (source)
  • That glass ball that smashed wasn't the only record of the prophecy.†   (source)
  • The arrow talks, but I got the prophecy from the grove itself.†   (source)
  • Let us hope the prophecy does not mean what I think.†   (source)
  • The prophecy had again flown to the tips of Harry's fingers but he had managed to cling on to it.†   (source)
  • Then it was left, forgotten … a prophecy yet to come.†   (source)
  • "We never heard a prophecy," said Neville, turning geranium pink as he said it.†   (source)
  • I still hope you are not the child of the prophecy, Percy.†   (source)
  • 'So, you smashed my prophecy?' said Voldemort softly, staring at Harry with those pitiless red eyes.†   (source)
  • "But," Percy continued, "I can't get involved in another Big Prophecy or whatever.†   (source)
  • And the prophecy said we'd cause death if we unleash her rage.†   (source)
  • And it… it's got something to do with the prophecy?†   (source)
  • 'Hand over the prophecy and no one need get hurt,' said Malfoy coolly.†   (source)
  • To go on a quest, we need a prophecy, right?†   (source)
  • I don't know how, but I know that prophecy.†   (source)
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