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.

Troy Vincent

Life favors those who are prepared

Tullian Tchividjian

Walking with God doesn't lead to God's favor; God's favor leads to walking with God.

Joseph Addison

Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.

Louis Pasteur

La fortuna juega a favor de una mente preparada

Tyson Slocum

It shouldn't be a place where political favors are granted.

Benjamin Franklin

You don't get somebody to like you by doing them a favor. That only tends to build resentment over the fact that they are needy and you are not. No, you ask them to do you a favor.

Barbara Mertz

Sekhmet crawled onto Ramses's lap and began to purr. 'The creature oozes like a furry slug,' said Ramses, eyeing it without favor.

Jane Smiley

How will you know a good farmer when you meet him? He will not ask you for any favors.

Michael McGuire

Essentially, he has served about 85 percent of his sentence, which was all he was supposed to serve. He got no special favors or anything like that.

Andre Gide

When you have nothing to say, or to hide, there is no need to be prudent.

Daniel McConchie

I don't think it's the most prudent thing to do at this time. It's really a long-shot type of situation." ()

Mike Keenan

I didn't think that was a prudent thing for the organization or for our fans.