Famous Quotes & Sayings

Leo Strauss

The Jewish people and their fate are the living witness for the absence of redemption. This, one could say, is the meaning of the chosen people; the Jews are chosen to prove the absence of redemption.

Lauren Graham

Some people think my father was a spy, because of working for that government agency in Vietnam, but he can't find his car keys, much less keep a national secret.

Lauren Graham

As I've gotten older, I've gotten more liberal, and my father is increasingly conservative. It's so shocking to me because I always thought we had the same politics. The day I realized we voted for different presidents, I practically fell out of my chair.

Larry King

My father died when I was nine and a half. We were on relief for two years. They call it welfare now, but it was relief then... I never forgot the generosity of New York.

Larry Niven

The best advice I was ever given was on my twenty-first birthday when my father said, Son, here's a million dollars. Don't lose it.

Larry McMurtry

Call listened with amusement--not that the incident hadn't been terrible. Being decapitated was a grisly fate, whether you were a Yankee or not. But then, amusing things happened in battle, as they did in the rest of life. Some of the funniest things he had ever witnessed had occurred during battles. He had always found it more satisfying to laugh on a battlefield than anywhere else, for if you lived to laugh on a battlefield, you could feel you had earned the laugh. But if you just laughed in a saloon, or at a social, the laugh didn't reach deep.

Lady Gaga

My father opened a restaurant. It's so amazing... it's so freaking delicious, but I'm telling you I gain five pounds every time I go in there.

Lady Gaga

I realized my father's sister Joanne, who died at 19 had instilled her spirit in me.

Lewis Black

I started playing golf when I was a kid, because across the street from where we lived there was a little nine-hole golf course where my father worked.

Lewis Black

My father worked at the Naval Ordnance Lab, and they had a nine-hole course on the property. You paid a quarter.

Lewis Black

My father painted, well into his 80s, what he called hard edge abstractions.It's really cool.

Lewis Carroll

You are old Father William,' the young man said, 'and your hair has become very white; and yet you incessantly stand on your head-do you think, at your age, it is right?

Lewis Carroll

"In my youth," said his father, "I look to the law, And argued each case with my wife; And the muscular strength, which it gave to my jaw Has lasted the rest of my life."

Josephus Daniels

Men who live valiantly and die nobly have a strength and a courage from the eternal Father.

Joseph Stiglitz

The top 1 percent have the best houses, the best educations, the best doctors, and the best lifestyles, but there is one thing that money doesn't seem to have bought: an understanding that their fate is bound up with how the other 99 percent live. Throughout history, this is something that the top 1 percent eventually do learn. Too late.

Joseph Campbell

The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won't!

Karl Shapiro

The body, what is it, Father, but a sign To love the force that grows us, to give back What in Thy palm is senselessness and mud?

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

God the father, and even more often the devil himself, appears at times in the place of fate in the modern tragedy. Why is it thatthis has not induced any scholar to develop a theory of the diabolical genre?

Karl Popper

We have become makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.

Karen Hesse

My father and I, we can't soothe each other. I'm too young, he's too old, and we don't know how to talk anymore if we ever did

Karen Bass

My father was from the South and turned me into a news junkie at a very early age. I would sit and watch TV with him.

Juliet Mills

My father influenced by his very life, his very example and the environment that I was brought up in. But, he did not encourage or discourage any of us. He let us make up our own minds.

Juliet Stevenson

I grew up all over the world. My father was in the army and was posted to a new place every two and a half years. I have no geographical roots.

Julie Garwood

Lady Madelyne had sealed her own fate. She'd warmed his feet.

Justin Halpern

I'm not a guy who curses very much in my personal life. When I curse it sounds like a kid trying to be cool. But I think there are quite a few people, my father being one of them, who use curse words rather eloquently.

Karl Kraus

Psychoanalysts are father confessors who like to listen to the sins of the father as well.

Karl Kraus

The new psychiatrists say that everything and anything can be traced back to sexual causes. Their method, for example, could be explained as the eroticism of father confessors.

Karl Kraus

When I take up my pen, nothing can happen to me. Fate, remember that.

Julius Streicher

You are blinded and you serve the God of the Jews, who is not the God of love but the God of hatred. Why don't you listen to Christ Himself, who said to the Jews: "Ye are of your father the devil!

Ouida

I do not wish to be a coward like the father of mankind and throw the blame upon a woman.

Kami Garcia

Fate is a wheel that turns without our hand

Kami Garcia

Oblivion eyes on a cereal box, the warm blinds of a father lost and last to know lost and last to love last boy lost you can't see even a bubble once it's popped

Kami Garcia

Fate decides until challenged by the fated