Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ludwig van Beethoven

I shall seize fate by the throat.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

What do I know about God and the purpose of life? I know that this world exists. That I am placed in it like my eye in its visual field. That something about it is problematic, which we call its meaning. This meaning does not lie in it but outside of it. That life is the world. That my will penetrates the world. That my will is good or evil. Therefore that good and evil are somehow connected with the meaning of the world.The meaning of life, i.e. the meaning of the world, we can call God. And connect with this the comparison of God to a father.

Lucan

I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate.

John Coleman

The Founding Fathers did not believe the primary purpose of their guns was to hunt ducks, but to keep the government in line within the bounds of the Constitution. The Founding Fathers said that armed citizens are a bulwark against a tyrant in the White House.

M. Russell Ballard

And fathers, . . . listen to [your returned missionary sons], and connect with them in regular, focused conversation. Talk with them in depth about their feelings and desires. Pray with them and give them blessings as they face the important decisions in their future.

M. Russell Ballard

The important questions focus on what matters most-Heavenly Father's plan and the Savior's Atonement.

M. Russell Ballard

Though this world has a way of diminishing and demeaning men and women, the reality is we are all of royal, divine lineage. In that unprecedented appearance of the Father and the Son in the Sacred Grove, the very first word spoken by the Father of us all was the personal name of Joseph. Such is our Father's personal relationship with each of us. He knows our names and yearns for us to become worthy to return to live with Him.

Luther Vandross

How I'd love, love, love, to dance with my Father again...

Luther Vandross

My father would lift me high. And dance with my mother and me and then. Spin me around til I fell asleep. Then up the stairs he would carry me and I knew for sure I was loved.

Lupe Fiasco

I know what tablas sound like, because my father played a lot of Ustad Ali Akbar Khan.

Lupe Fiasco

My father had been in the military and he was a weapons specialist, so he had an affinity for weapons but also for the discipline of it. He taught us how to shoot when we were young. He opened up karate schools in the worst parts of the city, on purpose, and then he would systematically clean out a three-block radius, all of the gang-bangers and drug dealers and everybody of nefarious character.

Lupe Fiasco

Before my father would open up a karate school in a particular neighborhood, he'd clean up the block - kick all the drug dealers and gang bangers off the block. My father was very clear: 'I've got guns too, and I'll kill you just as much as a rival gang would.' And he meant it. He was a man of many facets and complexities.

Luis Walter Alvarez

[My father] advised me to sit every few months in my reading chair for an entire evening, close my eyes and try to think of new problems to solve. I took his advice very seriously and have been glad ever since that he did.

John Boyle O'Reilly

The Greeks were the first boxers. Pugilism appears to have been one of the earliest distinctions in play and exercise that appeared between the Hellenes and their Asiatic fathers. The unarmed personal encounter was indicative of a sturdier manhood.

And it shall come to pass, that when any shall yet prophesy, then his father and his mother that begat him shall say unto him, Thou shalt not live; for thou speakest lies in the name of the LORD: and his father and his mother that begat him shall thrust him through when he prophesieth.

Nicole Kidman

And obviously, I've seen my father do some magnificent work.

All things that the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that he shall take of mine, and shall shew it unto you.

Craig Venter

The gene 'klotho' was named after the Greek Fate purported to spin the thread of life, because it contributes to longevity.

This is a good opportunity, and we're going to do it for us and for our family. My father is so excited.

This is a good step toward reducing artery-clogging fat in french fries, but it doesn't make french fries a health food.

All I can tell you is, the six of us grew up without a father but got something even better. I can't imagine him doing anything like what they're alleging.

a jury we'd like to have sit on our own fate were we ever in such a position.

Elizabeth Smart

Life is a journey for us all. We all face trials. We all have ups and downs. All of us are human. But we are also the masters of our fate. We are the ones who decide how we are going to react to life.

Eric Hoffer

It is the fate of every great achievement to be pounced upon by pedants and imitators who drain it of life and turn it into an orthodoxy which stifles all stirrings of originality.

Eric Hoffer

It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.

Emo Philips

When I was young, my father had a serious heart attack. He survived, but we lost our house and car. Under the Canadian Medicare system, though, we would have kept the house and car and would have just had to pay the inheritance tax.

The Holy Father encountered the Virgin of Guadalupe ... in a special way,

James Cook

All the warnings the founding fathers gave us about government proved to be true. We should have listened.

James Black

My father, a mining engineer and colliery manager, gave his brood many advantages not least of which, for me, was his love of singing which gave music a central place in our lives.

Napoleon Bonaparte

There is no such thing as an accident, only a failure to recognise the hand of fate

Napoleon Bonaparte

A battle sometimes decides everything; and sometimes the most trifling thing decides the fate of a battle.

Napoleon Bonaparte

A magistrate is not a father; he must be just and severe. Only tyrants are fathers.

Napoleon Bonaparte

There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.