Famous Quotes & Sayings

Whitney Cummings

I remember my agent at ICM at the beginning of my career telling me that I wasn't pretty enough, that I was always going to be a quirky sidekick. And he was an ogre of a man. He should have been carrying a torch. If he was in a bar, he couldn't have come near me, and then he was deciding my fate.

Ursula K. Le Guin

It did not matter, after all. He was only one man. One man's fate is not important. "If it is not, what is?" He could not endure those remembered words.

Robert Hunter

Don't waste the breath to save your face, When you have done your best, And even more is asked of you, Let fate decide the rest.

Vladimir Nabokov

We hasten to alienate the very fates we intended to woo.

Jonathan Tropper

Fate already warned us to pack it in. We just didn’t hear it in time.

Henry Ford

You are the Master of your Fate, the Captain of your Soul.

Mahatma Gandhi

That which makes man the mere plaything of fate is God.

John Adams

Liberty, according to my metaphysics, is an intellectual quality, an attribute that belongs not to fate nor chance. Neither possesses it, neither is capable of it. There is nothing moral or immoral in the idea of it. The definition of it is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power; it can elect between objects, indifferent in point of morality, neither morally good nor morally evil.

James Shirley

There is no armor against fate.

Curt Schilling

He obviously sat next to me in Washington and lied. I don't know that there's any way to prove that anything he did was not under the influence of performance-enhancing drugs.

Jim Haslam

I don't give so I can have influence over there,

Tish Olszewski

I'm not sure what influenced him to go to VNI. Maybe it had something to do with his acting. In an undercover capacity, you really have to act.

Charles Dean

I have tremendous respect for Walt, ... He has left a lasting influence on all of us.

Kelly Doski

Everyone loves kids. I think having my own was a big influence in wanting quality care.

Dan Walker

Even when he was in there, we were ready for him and we stopped him. Missing him was a big influence on their plays.

Liv Warfield

Being with Prince and the New Power Generation, I was very influenced by those sounds, and now I'm more than ready to show that side of me with confidence.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

Policy counselleth a gift, given wisely and in season; And policy afterwards approveth it, for great is the influence of gifts.

Leigh Hunt

Patience and gentleness is power.

Kevin Stass

The fuel loss will diminish the total number of miles it is able to travel.

Michael Steele

I respect Rush Limbaugh; he is a national conservative leader, and in no way do I want to diminish his voice.

Unknown

We all want to fall in love. Why? Because that experience makes us feel completely alive. Where every sense is heightened, every emotion is magnified, our everyday reality is shattered and we are flying into the heavens. It may only last a moment, an hour, an afternoon. But that doesn't diminish its value. Because we are left with memories that we treasure for the rest of our lives

Alan Greenspan

could prove destabilizing to our financial system as a whole and in the end could seriously diminish the availability of home mortgage funds.

Lamar Alexander

There's no reason to do this when you're going to diminish what's in the parks.

Sebastian Briozzo

Lower fiscal and external vulnerabilities diminishes the downside risk for these economies over the short term. A continuation of this recent performance is therefore expected in 2006.

James Shapiro

If the informant got too good a deal, it would diminish his credibility.

Pierce Brosnan

Movies are somewhat diminished by blockbusters, which are great, but there's not enough choice.

Cheryl Max

That was in no way meant to diminish the honor received by the band. We have to explore the issue from all angles, especially an issue as important as our students going overseas.