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.

Chuck Palahniuk

Just let your hand drop; and let fate decide for you.

Chuck Knox

Don't bemoan your fate. Everybody's not going to be dealt the same hand. Everybody's going to go through tough times.

Christopher Paolini

What will be will be.No one can escape fate's design.

Christopher Paolini

...life is in Fate's hands now. You made your choice to stay... it's too late to change that, so stop agonizing over it.... You're making my scales itch. Saphira, from "Eragon

Christopher Paolini

Fight if you wish. Deny what is before you if it comforts you. But nothing you do can change your fate.

Angelina Jolie

I'm not somebody that thinks about destiny and fate, but I don't walk away from it when something unfolds.

Amos Oz

If we don't stop somewhere, if we don't accept an unhappy compromise, unhappy for both sides, if we don't learn how to unhappily coexist and contain our burned sense of injustice - if we don't learn how to do that, we end up in a doomed state.

Al-Waleed bin Talal

Actually, King Abdullah, under his supervision and guidance, has established a dialogue in Saudi Arabia whereby all the population, whether Shiite or Sunnis from north, south, west or east, they can get together and exchange their views.

Janis Ian

I think all of us thought that by the '70s, at the latest the '80s, all the world's problems would be solved and everyone would be getting along fine. And instead we saw that Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated that year, Robert F. Kennedy died. We saw that it was going to be a lot more difficult than I think we had thought.

Bobby Scott

In fact, the Harvard study data indicates that 70 percent of African American children attend schools that are predominately African American, about the same level as in 1968 when Dr. King died.

Cory Doctorow

Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about.

Alexander Pope

From the moment one sets up for an author, one must be treated as ceremoniously, that is as unfaithfully, "as a king's favorite or a king.

Anne Rice

I can't keep up with Stephen King's output.

Ambrose Bierce

Legitimate authority to be, to do or to have; as the right to be a king, the right to do one's neighbor, the right to have measles, and the like.

Robert Bolt

Death comes for us all. Even for kings he comes.

Thomas More

I should only ever tell the king what he ought to do, not what he could do. For if the lion knows his own strength, no man could control him.

Scottie Somers

A wise man once told Me that an overnight success takes 10 years. But I may not have 10 Years. I might have to settle for a naptime success.

Tommy Lapid

Ross Perot was a rich joke, ... I am a very poor man but serious. We are in serious business.

Edward Fitzgerald

Alas, that Spring should vanish with the Rose! / That Youth's sweet-scented Manuscript should close!

Channing Pollock

A critic is a legless man who teaches running.

Ted Turner

I think George Bush is the most dangerous man in the world.

Bo Schembechler

A Michigan man is going to coach Michigan.

Bernard Baruch

Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions. But no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.

Baltasar Gracian

At 20 a man is a peacock, at 30 a lion, at 40 a camel, at 50 a serpent, at 60 a dog, at 70 an ape, and at 80 nothing.

Seth Rogen

To me all men are boy-men. I don't know any man that's actually mature.

Donald E. Graham

The rich are staying in school, and the poor are being drafted. I can't live with that.

John Bunting

You get off to a poor start in the third quarter and things start rolling the other way. It starts snowballing a little bit.

Alexander Pope

Who sees pale Mammom pine amidst his store, Sees but a backward steward for the poor.

Marilynne Robinson

It is a good thing to know what it is to be poor, and a better thing if you can do it in company.

Isabelle Eberhardt

We are, all of us, poor wretches, and those who prefer not to understand this are even worse off than the rest of us.

Horace

He is not poor who has a competency.

Chipper Jones

If he was trying to take me out, he did a poor job.

Robert Shaw

There's no future in being poor.

Vita Sackville-West

Prose is a poor thing, a poor inadequate thing, compared with poetry which says so much more in shorter time.

Rainer Maria Rilke

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.

Miguel de Cervantes

Riches are able to solder up abundance of flaws.

Master P

I want to get rich and die old.

Mason Cooley

The rich are happier than we are, and should be.

Patsy Cline

I don''t wanna be rich, just live good.

Patsy Cline

I don't wanna get rich - just live good.

Jean Baker

Rich has done wonders in the two years he has been here,

Larry Davis

Rich did very well. He got tired at the end, but that's to be expected.

Elliott Sadler

I feel like going to Richmond there's only one thing we can do and that's go to try and win the race,