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.

Samuel Johnson

Exercise cannot secure us from that dissolution to which we are decreed; but while the soul and body continue united, it can make the association pleasing, and give probable hopes that they shall be disciplined by an easy separation...to die is the fate of man; but to die with lingering anguish is generally his folly.

Sam Altman

The natural state of a start-up is to die; most start-ups require multiple miracles in their early days to escape this fate.

William Davenant

Small are the seeds fate does unheeded sow Of slight beginnings to important ends.

Wendell Berry

If love could force my own thoughts over the edge of the world and out of time, then could I not see how even divine omnipotence might by the force of its own love be swayed down to the world? ...how it might, because it could know its own creatures only by compassion, put on mortal flesh, become a man, and walk among us, assume our nature and our fate, suffer our faults and our death?

Carl Jung

Miracles do occur, and it's never too late to turn your life around and reach for something better.

Richard Dawkins

Without gradualness...we are back to a miracle.

Willie Aames

God continues to work miracles in my life.

William J. Clinton

Throughout the Middle East, there is a great yearning for the quiet miracle of a normal life.

Samuel Rutherford

When I look to my guiltiness, I see that my salvation is one of our Saviour's greatest miracles, either in heaven or earth.

Walker Percy

Suppose you ask God for a miracle and God says yes, very well. How do you live the rest of your life?

Ryan Reynolds

Bringing any movie together is a minor miracle.

William Butler Yeats

Many ingenious lovely things are gone / That seemed sheer miracle to the multitude...

Robert Green Ingersoll

We have at last ascertained that miracles can be perfectly understood; that there is nothing mysterious about them; that they are simply transparent falsehoods.

Tammy Loew

I think it is perfectly natural for people to want to take a break.

Matt Doherty

(Harris) may be one of the quickest players I have coached. He's a natural leader.

Shamir

I wear menswear all the time. I don't do anything to make myself look more feminine. I naturally look and am more feminine.

Tori Amos

Anger is natural. It's part of the force. You just have to learn to hang out with it.

Richard Dawkins

Natural selection is anything but random.

Van Morrison

Performing was the natural thing originally and the rest of it [records and so on] is just like offshoots of that. That's how I see it anyway.

Robert E. Howard

Barbarism is the natural state of mankind,

Rebecca Solnit

There are disasters that are entirely manmade, but none that are entirely natural.

Sam Trammell

I guess everybody's different, but I know that everybody's natural instinct is to remember the bad stuff more than the good stuff.