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.

Courtney Love

I was interested in being in Fight Club, but I wanted Edward's part, but since they're not going to hand a girl those parts you have to manifest destiny and not complain, bitch or whine.

Triple H

Your destiny is what you make. It's the choices that you make. And for every choice, there's a consequence.

Vance Havner

Abraham did not know where he was going immediately, but he knew where he was going ultimately. He did not know the Whither but he knew the Whom. He believed God, and, being sure of his destiny, he did not worry about his destination.

Robert Falcon Scott

I have huge questions about Vision Appraisal - you bet I do. I'm very worried about what happens when we hand over our destiny to an outside company.

Saul Williams

I keep trying to forget, but I must remember. And gather the scattered continents of a self, once whole. Before they plant flags and boundary my destiny. Push down the watered mountains that blemish this soiled soul before the valleys of my conscience get the best of me. I'll need a passport just to simply reach the rest of me. A vaccination for a lesser god's bleak history.

Ronald Reagan

We're Americans, and we have a rendezvous with destiny . . . No people who have ever lived on this earth have fought harder, paid a higher price for freedom, or done more to advance the dignity of man than Americans.

Yasser Arafat

The Palestinian people have no national identity. I, Yasser Arafat, man of destiny, will give them that identity through conflict with Israel.

Wiz Khalifa

You can take your destiny into your own hands.

Winston Churchill

Manifest destiny was on the march, and it was unfortunate that Mexico stood in the path.

Van Jones

In addition, black folks need to attend green conferences, too. We just self-segregate and don't go. They might even waive your fee if you apply on a diversity basis, because they'd be so shocked to see somebody from a different background wanting to be a part of the green movement.

Will Self

One of the most heartening phenomena in today's Britain is the great diversity of the modern nerd - the nerd is out and proud, and while she may love 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' merchandise more than is strictly warranted, she is in every way to be cherished as an exemplar of cosmopolitanism and tolerance.

William Sloane Coffin

Diversity may be the hardest thing for a society to live with, and perhaps the most dangerous thing for a society to be without.

Samuel Johnson

The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be rekindled by intervals of absence.

W. Somerset Maugham

Tolerance is another word for indifference.

David Haas

In terms of diversity and geography, it's very similar to the new Legg Mason.

Noam Chomsky

It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human need for liberty, diversity, and free association.

Murray Gell-Mann

Both biological and cultural diversity are now severely threatened and working for their preservation is a critical task.

R. D. Laing

There is no such condition as 'schizophrenia,' but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event.