Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shakespeare

What fates impose, that men must needs abide; it boots not to resist both wind and tide.

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.

Sara Gruen

When two people are meant to be together, they will be together. It's 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.

Robert Louis Stevenson

A horrible sense of blackness and the treachery of fate seized hold upon the soul of the unhappy student.

Sarah Dessen

The basic fact is that no, this isnt ideal. Very few things are. Sometimes, you have to manufacture your own history. Give fate a push,so to speak. -Heidi

Sarah Dessen

But if something was really important, fate made sure it somehow came back to you and gave you another chance.

Roger Ebert

It is comforting to think that we can love so powerfully that fate itself wheels and turns at the command of our souls.

Richard Perle

When you gaze into souls, it's something you should update periodically, because souls can change.

Richelle Mead

Poor Martin. Geek or no, committing his soul to eternal damnation was a helluva price to pay for six minutes.

Richelle Mead

I left her there crying as I walked toward the gate. A piece of my soul had died when Dimitri had fallen. Turning my back on her now, I felt another piece die as well. Soon there wouldn't be anything left inside me.

Richard Bach

What was the question? ...Oh. Where do I get my crazy ideas? Answer: sleep-fairy, walk-fairy, shower-fairy. Book-fairy. And in these last few years, from my wife. Now when I have questions I ask her and she tells me the answer. If you haven't already, I'd suggest you want to find your soulmate, as soon as you can. Next question?

William S. Burroughs

I read Mailer's Ancient Evenings with great interest because I was interested in . . . the seven souls structure, which was very helpful to me in Western Lands. And also in Place of Dead Roads. So that's Mailer.

William Law

The sun meets not the springing bud that stretches towards him with half the certainty that God, the source of all good, communicates himself to the soul that longs to partake of him.

William Wordsworth

The gods approve The depth, and not the tumult, of the soul.

William James

The states of consciousness are all that psychology needs to do her work with. Metaphysics or theology may prove the Soul to exist; but for psychology the hypothesis of such a substantial principle of unity is superfluous.

William Gibson

There must be some Tommy Hilfiger event horizon, beyond which it is impossible to be more derivative, more removed from the source, more devoid of soul.

Michael Chertoff

It is going to be an unhappy number,

Woodrow Wilson

Whate'er my doom; It cannot be unhappy: God hath given me The boon of resignation.

Robert Sheckley

A lot of us don't want to be quite that serious about world problems. Our life is there to enjoy, not to be an eternal dissident, eternally unhappy with how things are and with the state of mankind.

Samuel Beckett

Unhappy, but not unhappy enough.

Whitney Houston

I'd rather be alone than unhappy

William Godwin

We are so curiously made that one atom put in the wrong place in our original structure will often make us unhappy for life.

Chris Richards

I'm unhappy because we just lost. We thought we had it in our hands, but we just didn't execute.

Milan Kundera

A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.

Marcel Proust

We become moral when we are unhappy.