Famous Quotes & Sayings

Don Marquis

Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.

Carl Maria von Weber

No fate holds more splendour for an artist, than the one which greets his effort with such enthousiasm!

Bethenny Frankel

I realized that there are no certainties in life. You can't manipulate fate.

Bernard Berenson

There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learned to separate them.

Arnold Schoenberg

The principal function of form is to advance our understanding. It is the organization of a piece which helps the listener to keep the idea in mind, to follow its development, its growth, its elaboration, its fate.

Bertrand Russell

A man who has once perceived, however temporarily and however briefly, what makes greatness of soul, can no longer be happy if he allows himself to be petty, self-seeking, troubled by trivial misfortunes, dreading what fate may have in store for him. The man capable of greatness of soul will open wide the windows of his mind, letting the winds blow freely upon it from every portion of the universe.

William Shakespeare

He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear His hopes 'bove wisdom, grace and fear: And you all know, security Is mortals' chiefest enemy.

Octavio Paz

To the poet fated to be a poet, self-expression is as natural and as involuntary as breathing is to us ordinary mortals.

Richard Brodhead

It has seemed premature to announce, and especially while indictments are still not only out but where there might be more coming, ... what the fate of the team will be. Of course, this is a matter that will be given the gravest consideration at the appropriate time.

Nile Rodgers

I'm always swimming forward like a shark. You just keep going and you don't rest. I love waking up knowing that I have a problem to solve.

Carrie Underwood

I'm a private person, and I don't want people knowing what kind of underwear I like. It's creepy!

Carl Sagan

We are a way of the universe knowing itself.

Beth Riesgraf

I would say, being a parent is what makes me vulnerable. Loving someone so much it scares you. Knowing you'd do anything for them and then realizing there will come a time when you have to loosen the reins and let them figure it out on their own, and then trusting that you/they are making the right decisions.

Benjamin Rush

The Gates of Hell shall not prevail against it.

Chris Chambers

That was with no promotion, without people knowing that the show was there.

Claude Julien

That was uncharacteristic of him. For me, it's about him knowing we've turned the page on that and that we just want him to use his skills.

Charli Turner

We have the mentality and we understand the expectations that have been set. Knowing you can do it and actually doing it are two different things, but for now, I know we can repeat from last year.

Michael Mills

Members and VIPs don't have timed slots. We have no way of knowing when those people will show up.

Candace Bushnell

It's hard to be careful, though, when you feel indestructible.

Garth Nix

Be careful..you're all I've got left, to remind me who I really am.

Mike Love

You have to be careful not to get overexposed.

Johnny Depp

You gotta be careful: don't say a word to nobody about nothing anytime ever.

Paulo Coelho

Be careful! Never show your superiors that you are superior to them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

You have to be careful who you let define your good.

Richard Baxter

Be careful how you spend your time: Spend your time in nothing which you know must be repented of.

Vernon Jordan

You have to be careful how you're using the word boycott.

Stephen King

You can't be careful on a skateboard.