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.

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.

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.

Rush Limbaugh

I know people who have donated big to presidents. I know people who have raised money big for presidents. And they are treated like kings by the politician and his organization. They are constantly invited to parties, seminars, private gatherings where the candidate or the president will explain policy, but only to them. And they brag about it. Which is fine. That doesn't bother me.

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!

Ted Turner

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

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.

Sextus Propertius

Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.

Sean O'Casey

There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.

Simon Greenleaf

That man is a religious being, is universally conceded, for it has been seen to be universally true.

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.

Joan of Arc

The poor folk gladly came to me, for I did them no unkindness, but helped them as much as I could.

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.

Jeffrey Sachs

History is written by the rich, and so the poor get blamed for everything.