Famous Quotes & Sayings

Fred Astaire

Chance is the fool's name for Fate

Franz Kafka

The Fathers of the Church were not afraid to go out into the desert because they had a richness in their hearts. But we, with richness all around us, are afraid, because the desert is in our hearts.

Erica Jong

We find our calling or it finds us, and it's a sin against the fates not to use your talent when you have it.

Eric Clapton

Up until I became a father, it was all about self-obsession. But then I learned exactly what it's all about: the delight of being a servant.

Jasper Fforde

Sometimes choice is a luxury that fate does not afford us.

Will Carleton

But I have learned a thing or two; I know as sure as fate,When we lock up our lives for wealth, the gold key comes too late.

Glenn Ford

We have allowed corporations to decide the fate of the cities. We hardly speak of democratic development.

John Kerr

I didn't evacuate because I had a father who was a new amputee,

J. Edgar Hoover

WHAT WE NEED IN AMERICA TODAY IS A VIGOROUS RETURN TO THE GOD OF OUR FATHERS AND A MOST VIGOROUS DEFENSE AGAINST THE MINION OF GODLESSNESS AND ATHEISM.

Isoroku Yamamoto

The fate of the Empire rests on this enterprise. Every man must devote himself totally to the task in hand.

Irwin Shaw

In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.

Jack Kerouac

He seems to me to be headed for his ideal fate, which is compulsive psychosis dashed with a jigger of psychopathic irresponsibility and violence

J. Courtney Sullivan

Timing was everything when it came to being a woman—the moment you entered the world could seal your fate.

Most people are used to the old story of AMD and Intel where they were tied together and the fate of Intel was the fate of AMD.

Mike was the kind of guy who would give the shirt off his back for anyone. He was like a second father to my kids.

One of our nemeses is rebounding. That sealed our fate.

Bill Bryson

Entirely incidentally, a little-known fact about Shakespeare is that his father moved to Stratford-upon-Avon from a nearby village shortly before his son's birth. Had he not done so, the Bard of Avon would instead be known as the rather less ringing Bard of Snitterfield.

Bill Vaughan

Men are more like the time they live in than they are like their fathers.

We'd wake up in the morning and there'd be a line of mothers, fathers, grandchildren waiting for us. We knew that we were there to save lives.

H. G. Wells

Losing your way on a journey is unfortunate. But, losing your reason for the journey is a fate more cruel.

Jay-Z

The most amazing feeling I feel Words can't describe what I'm feeling for real Maybe I paint the sky blue My greatest creation was you.

Camryn Manheim

Almost everything I do is related to being fat.

Jared Kushner

I was raised to work for my father when I was four.

Euripides

Noble fathers have noble children.

Christian Louboutin

My father, who was a cabinetmaker, told me, 'Wood has a grain and if you go into the grain, you have beauty. If you go against it, you have splinters - it breaks.' And I took that as my view of life. You have to follow the grain - to be sensitive to the direction of life.

Chris Martin

Men should always change diapers. It's a very rewarding experience. It's mentally cleansing. It's like washing dishes, but imagine if the dishes were your kids, so you really love the dishes.

Harry Hill

My dad used to say 'Always fight fire with fire,' which is probably why he got thrown out of the the fire brigade.

Hans Christian Andersen

At first she was overjoyed that he would be with her, but then she recalled that human people could not live under the water, and he could only visit her father's palace as a dead man.

Gordon B. Hinckley

If we are to continue to have the freedoms that came of the inspiration of the Almighty to our Founding Fathers, we must return to the God who is their true Author.

Georgette Heyer

Sir Richard sighed. "Rid yourself of the notion that I cherish any villainous designs upon your person," he said. "I imagine I might well be your father. How old are you?" "I am turned seventeen." "Well, I am nearly thirty," said Sir Richard. Miss Creed worked this out. "You couldn't possibly be my father!" "I am far too drunk to solve arithmetical problems. Let it suffice that I have not the slightest intention of making love to you.

Herman Melville

Ignorance is the father of all fear.

Henry David Thoreau

The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly. They make shift to live merely by conformity, practically as their fathers did, and are in no sense the progenitors of a nobler race of men.

Jean-Marie Le Pen

My father was killed by a German mine, while I lost other relatives in Allied bombing attacks.