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fate men should-have
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.
fate elephants two
Sara Gruen When two people are meant to be together, they will be together. It's fate.
fate men important
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.
fate done waste
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.
fate
Vladimir Nabokov We hasten to alienate the very fates we intended to woo.
fate past destiny
William Makepeace Thackeray It is an awful thing to get a glimpse, as one sometimes does, when the time is past, of some little, little wheel which works the whole mighty machinery of fate, and see how our destinies turn on a minute's delay or advance.
fate honor training
William Makepeace Thackeray Lucky he who has been educated to bear his fate, whatsoever it may be, by an early example of uprightness, and a childish training in honor.
fate littles way
William Makepeace Thackeray When Fate wills that something should come to pass, she sends forth a million of little circumstances to clear and prepare the way.
civilization history moral nice record
Harlan Ellison K is for Kenghis Khan. He was a very nice person. History has no record of him. There is a moral in that, somewhere.
civilization local pillar
Stewart Brand I was a glassy-eyed undergraduate. It was a pillar of local civilization.
civilization lasts analysis
Will Durant In the last analysis civilization is based upon the food supply.
civilization long achievement
Rose Macaulay what about Christianity? Are we right in the face of so long a record of its poverty in international achievement, to keep invoking it as a standard, almost synonymous with civilization?
civilization political democracy
Winston Churchill Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
civilization victory series
William Harvey Civilization is only a series of victories against nature.
civilization armenia
William E. Gladstone To serve Armenia is to serve civilization.
civilization exhausted resources
William E. Gladstone The resources of civilization are not yet exhausted.
civilization evil specialization
Wendell Berry Specialization is the great evil of civilization.
mirth digestion meat
Walter Scott Meat eaten without either mirth or music is ill of digestion.
mirth mail anguish
Emily Dickinson Mirth is the Mail of Anguish --
mirth melancholy disguise
Leigh Hunt Mirth itself is too often but melancholy in disguise.
mirth reputation slander
Charles Churchill Quick-circulating slanders mirth afford; and reputation bleeds in every word.
mirth melancholy strings
Thomas Hood There is not a string attuned to mirth but has its chord of melancholy.
mirth needs sin
George Herbert When thou dost tell another's jest, therein Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need; Pick out of tales the mirth, but not the sin.