Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ralph Waldo Emerson

But every jet of chaos which threatens to exterminate us is convertible by intellect into wholesome force. Fate is unpenetrated causes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We shun the rugged battle of fate where strength is born.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fate, then, is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought; for causes which are unpenetrated.

Sean Lennon

Anyone who doesn't think the government killed my father either hasn't given the issue much thought, or is insane...

Sean Lennon

I'm lucky to have had a father [John Lennon] who paid attention.

Sean Lennon

I'm not trying to overcome my father or fill his shoes or reach any kind of level that he did. We're talking about a Mozart of rock music.

Sean Lennon

My father was assassinated by an FBI-CIA connection

Sean Hannity

I think my father would give me the Department of the Interior because of my love of the outdoors, so we can get that going.

Sean Hannity

My father used to take off his belt and give me a crack. And I'm all right.

Shreya Ghoshal

I like my father being the boss in my life

Si Robertson

My father, OK, when we first got old enough to hunt, this was his rule: If you shoot it, you come home and eat it. Otherwise you do not shoot it, OK? You don't just kill something for the sake of killing it, OK? If you kill it, you gotta grill it, so to speak.

Shinichi Suzuki

Talent is no accident of birth. In today's society a good many people seem to have the idea that if one is born without talent, there is nothing he can do about it; they simply resign themselves to what they consider to be their fate.

Shelby Steele

A black conservative is a black who dissents from the victimization explanation of black fate.

Shannon Hoon

I need to start caring about myself if I'm going to be a proper father.

Seymour Hersh

I don't know whether God talks to him or whether he's trying to undo what his father did. But he believes in the mission. The body bags aren't going to deter him. Public dissent isn't going to deter him. He's going to go ahead. And that's more frightening.

L. Ron Hubbard

I would say that 99 per cent of what my father has written about his own life is false.

Leslie Caron

the finest achievements are those of the pen. ... To me God the Father is a writer.

Leonard Peltier

What I am is a father, a grandfather, a great grandfather, and an artist. I am a man who loves his people and wants to go home.

Lawrence Eagleburger

My father was somewhat to the right of Genghis Khan.

Lawrence Block

If fate sends you a lemon, use it to make lemonade.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

When I was a boy I was my father.

Larry Elder

Nobody ever worked as hard as my father. My father averaged maybe four hours of sleep at night, and when you're a kid, you don't realize that.

Lactantius

Therefore let men withdraw themselves from errors; and laying aside corrupt superstitions, let them acknowledge their Father and Lord, whose excellence cannot be estimated, nor His greatness perceived, nor His beginning comprehended.

Marcus Garvey

I trust that you will so live today as to realize that you are masters of your own destiny, masters of your fate; if there is anything you want in this world, it is for you to strike out with confidence and faith in self and reach for it.

Marcus Aurelius

Remember: Matter: how tiny your share of it. Time: how brief and fleeting your allotment of it. Fate: how small a role you play in it.

Marcus Aurelius

This is moral perfection: to live each day as though it were the last; to be tranquil, sincere, yet not indifferent to one's fate.

Marcus Aurelius

My being consists of matter and form, that is, of soul and body; annihilation will reach neither of them, for they were never produced out of nothing. The consequence is, that every part of me will serve to make something in the world; and this again will change into another part through an infinite succession of change. This constant method of alteration gave me my being, and my father before me, and so on to eternity backward: for I think I may speak thus, even though the world be confined within certain determinate periods.

Marcus Aurelius

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

Marcus Aurelius

Whatever may happen to thee, it was prepared for thee from all eternity ...

Marcus Aurelius

God overrules all mutinous accidents, brings them under His laws of fate, and makes them all serviceable to His purpose.

Marcus Aurelius

The gods gave me a father who ruled over me and rid me of any trace of arrogance and showed me that one can live in a palace without bodyguards, extravagant attire, chandeliers, statues, and other luxuries. He taught me that it is possible to live instead pretty much in the manner of a private citizen without losing any of the dignity and authority a ruler must possess to discharge his imperial duties effectively.

Marcus Aurelius

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date. C. S. LEWIS, The Four Loves Life is short. Eternity is long. BENTLEY LITTLE, His Father's Son What we do now echoes in eternity.

Marcus Aurelius

Welcome every experience the looms of fate may weave for you...