A Quote by Alexander Pope

Astrologers that future fates foreshow.

Alexander Pope

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Future

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Alexander Pope
English - Poet
May 21, 1688 - May 30, 1744

Economists are about as useful as astrologers in predicting the future (and, like astrologers, they never let failure on one occasion diminish certitude on the next).

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

I’d compare stock pickers to astrologers but I don’t want to bad mouth astrologers.

Eugene Fama

It is past time for women to take their rightful place, side by side with men, in the rooms where the fates of peoples, where their children's and grandchildren's fates, are decided.

Hillary Clinton

The fates have informed me that your examination in June will concern the Orb, and I am anxious to give you sufficient practice. Hermione snorted. "Well honestly... 'the fates have informed her'... Who sets the exam? She does!

J. K. Rowling

We fight in honourable fashion for the good of mankind; fearless of the future, unheeding of our individual fates, with unflinching hearts and undimmed eyes; we stand at Armageddon, and we battle for the Lord

Theodore Roosevelt

Officially there are no fates worse than death. Unofficially, there is a profusion of such fates. For some people, just living with the thought that they will die is a fate worse than death itself.

Thomas Ligotti

'Robopocalypse' explores the intertwined fates of regular people who face a future filled with murderous machines. It follows them as humanity foments the robot uprising, fails to recognize the coming storm, and then is rocked to the core by methodical, crippling attacks.

Daniel H. Wilson

Millionaires don't have astrologers, billionaires do.

J. P. Morgan

Astrologie is true, but the Astrologers cannot finde it.

George Herbert

These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century.

Miguel de Unamuno

God created astrologers to make pollsters look accurate.

John Kasich

No serious futurist deals in prediction. These are left for television oracles and newspaper astrologers.

Alvin Toffler

The chief function of stock-market forecasters is to make astrologers look respectable.

Jane Bryant Quinn

In this world, time has three dimensions, like space. Just as an object may move in three perpendicular directions, corresponding to horizontal, vertical, and longitudinal, so an object may participate in three perpendicular futures. Each future moves in a different direction of time. Each future is real. At every point of decision, the world splits into three worlds, each with the same people, but different fates for those people. In time, there are an infinity of worlds.