Famous Quotes & Sayings

Albert Einstein

Our situation on this earth seems strange. Every one of us appears here involuntarily and uninvited for a short stay, without knowing the whys and the wherefore. In our daily lives we only feel that man is here for the sake of others, for those whom we love and for many other beings whose fate is connected with our own. I am often worried at the thought that my life is based to such a large extent on the work of my fellow human beings and I am aware of my great indebtedness to them.

Albert Einstein

It is my fate to be considered an authority, since I spent my youth rebelling against it.

Albert Einstein

Galileo - the father of modern physics - indeed of modern science.

Ali Smith

What shop did this book come from? she asked. Her father was looking worried at the cooker. He always got rice wrong. I don't know, Brooksie, he said, I don't remember. That was unimaginable, not remembering where a book has come from! and where it was bought from! That was part of the whole history, the whole point, of any book that you owned! And when you picked it up later in the house at home, you knew, you just knew by looking and having it in your hand, where it came from and where you got it and when and why you'd decided to buy it.

Alexander Lowen

A person does not choose his or her fate; he or she only fulfills it. We are bound by our fate as long as we accept the values that determine it.

Alexander Pope

Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,Or gave his father grief but when he died.

Alexander Pope

And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.

Alexander Pope

But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?

Alexander Pope

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

Alexander Pope

Astrologers that future fates foreshow.

Alexander Pope

Monuments, like men, submit to fate.

Alexander Pope

Therefore they who say our thoughts are not our own because they resemble the Ancients, may as well say our faces are not our own, because they are like our Fathers: And indeed it is very unreasonable, that people should expect us to be Scholars, and yet be angry to find us so.

Alexander Pope

Some men's wit is like a dark lantern, which serves their own turn and guides them their own way, but is never known (according to the Scripture phrase) either to shine forth before men, or to glorify their Father in heaven.

Alexander Pope

Is there a parson much bemused in beer, a maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, a clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, who pens a stanza when he should engross?

Alexa Ray Joel

I worked a long time to get good at what I'm doing, and nobody handed me a recording contract because of who my father is.

Alex Grey

To bare our souls is all we ask, to give all we have to life and the beings surrounding us. Here the nature spirits are intense and we appreciate them, make offerings to them - these nature spirits who call us here - sealing our fate with each other, celebrating our love.

Albert Schweitzer

O heavenly Father, protect and bless all things that have breath: guard them from all evil and let them sleep in peace.

E. M. Forster

It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.

E. M. Forster

It is easy to face Death and Fate, and the things that sound so dreadful. It is on my muddles that I look back with horror--on thethings that I might have avoided.

E. M. Forster

It is fate that I am here,' George persisted, 'but you can call it Italy if it makes you less unhappy.

Drew Brees

Camping in the backyard last night for Father's Day! Wrestling, stories, s'mores...it was awesome!

Douglas MacArthur

By profession I am a Soldier & take pride in that fact, but I am prouder to be a father.

Dorothy Malone

My father was a minister, so I was a P.K., a preacher's kid.

Donna Leon

Oh, so seldom does fate cast our enemy into our hands, to do with as we will

Donald Cargill

But seek till ye find, and, whatever ye find for the present, let your last act be to lay and leave yourselves on the righteousness of His Son, expecting life through His name, according to the promise of the Father.

Dylan Walsh

My father had wanted to name me for Dylan Thomas. He had seen him speak on one of those drunken poetry tours he did.

Dylan McDermott

It's like, no matter what I do, I always feel like I'm five years old, and I end up in the back of my father's car looking out the window, and nothing has changed in 25 years.

Dylan McDermott

Style is innate to who I am. My father gave me a picture the other day. I must have been about seven, and I had on wing-tip shoes and some cool pants. I thought, 'Wow!

Dylan Thomas

The land of my fathers. My fathers can have it.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

If our founding fathers were alive today, they'd roll over in their graves.

Duane Michals

I write in order to express what the photo itself cannot say. A photograph of my father doesn't tell me what I thought of him, which for me is much more important than what the man looked like.

Dorothy Dunnett

But I despised men who accepted their fate. I shaped mine twenty times and had it broken twenty times in my hands.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Father sticks to it that anything that promises to pay too much can't help being risky.