Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lord Alfred Tennyson

For man is man and master of his fate.

Arabian Proverb

Throw a lucky man into the sea, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth.

Anthony de Mello

To a woman who complained about her destiny the Master said, "It is you who make your destiny." "But surely I am not responsible for being born a woman?" "Being born a woman isn't destiny. That is fate. Destiny is how you accept your womanhood and what you make of it."

D. H. Lawrence

Let a person only approach his or her own self with a deep respect, even reverence for all that the creative soul, the God-mystery within us, puts forth. Then we shall all be sound and free. . . . The creative spontaneous soul sends forth its promptings of desire and aspiration in us. These promptings are our true fate, which is our business to fulfill. A fate dictated from outside, from theory or from circumstance, is a false fate.

David Attenborough

What humans do over the next 50 years will determine the fate of all life on the planet.

Curtis Jackson

He who fears fate lives like a coward

Confucius

The wheel of fortune turns round incessantly, and who can say to himself, I shall today be uppermost.

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

Fate has a twisted sense of humor.

Anne Fadiman

I can imagine few worse fates than walking around for the rest of one's life wearing a typo.

Davy Jones

I'd like a glass of cold gravy with a hair in it, please.

Mark Cuban

Doesn't matter if the glass is half-empty or half-full. All that matters is that you are the one pouring the water.

Oscar Wilde

An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it needs to be.

Park Chan-wook

I love Philip Glass' work, not only as a film composer but also as a musician. The film score work that he does always amazes and shocks me.

Ralph Cudworth

A good conscience is the best looking-glass of heaven.

Larry Merchant

To say he has a glass chin is an insult to glass.

Peter Greenaway

I like a lot of glasses about -- it highers the tone.

John Forsythe

Once you drink one glass, you want another.

Edward Weston

I find myself every so often looking at my ground glass as though the unrecorded image might escape me!

Brent Weeks

The perfect killer has no friends. Only targets.

Aristotle

Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit.

Ben Jonson

True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.

Eleanor Smeal

She [Carolyn Maloney] knows the financial issues, that's why we thought she was perfect because we're in a - we're in, as you know, a financial crisis, an economic crisis, and I know that she'll see the whole picture.

Stu Jackson

This was another perfect storm of sorts in that the timing was such that he wasn't available.

Brad Miller

Everything went perfect for them. And obviously, we didn't play worth a crap.

Adam Dunn

So perfect — I’m right where I need to be!

Allen Tate

So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman.

Debbie Ford

Our society nurtures the illusion that all the rewards go to the people who are perfect. But many of us are finding out that trying to be perfect is costly.