Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chrissie Hynde

One person can make all the difference in the world. For the first time in recorded human history, we have the fate of the whole planet in our hands.

Chrissy Teigen

Many [most] of Ivanka's [Trump] ideals are the platform of the democratic party. Her father [Donald Trump] has never mentioned anything she spoke about in her RNC speech. He doesn't talk about childcare, equal pay, women's rights.

Christian Bale

There was a great complexity to my father. He was a devoted family man. But, in the same breath, he simply was not suited to an anchored life. He should have been somebody who had a backpack, an old map, a bit of change in his pocket and that was it - roaming the world.

Chris Hayes

[Donald Trump] spreading preposterous rumors that [Ted] Cruz`s father had connections to Lee Harvey Oswald and the assassination of JFK. That put a bit of a damper on the bromance ultimately culminating in Cruz`s epic non-endorsement at the Republican convention.

George Orwell

Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.

George R. R. Martin

His sister liked to think of herself as Lord Tywin with teats, but she was wrong. Their father had been as relentless and implacable as a glacier, where Cercei was all wildfire, especially when thwarted.

George R. R. Martin

Nothing. My father is very good at doing nothing. He calls it thinking.

George Carlin

I'm a believer that things happen. Fate is what happens.

George Carlin

I think the warning labels on alcoholic beverages are too bland. They should be more vivid. Here are a few I would suggest: "Alcohol will turn you into the same asshole your father was."; "Drinking will significantly improve your chances of murdering a loved one."; "If you drink long enough, at some point you will vomit up the lining of your stomach."; "Use this product and you may wake up in Morocco wearing a cowboy suit and tongue-kissing a transmission salesman."

Garth Stein

A winner, a champion, will accept his fate. He will continue with his wheels in the dirt. He will do his best to maintain his line and gradually get himself back on the track when it is safe to do so. Yes, he loses a few places in the race. Yes, he is at a disadvantage. But he i A winner, a champion, will accept his fate. He will continue with his wheels in the dirt. He will do his best to maintain his line and gradually get himself back on the track when it is safe to do so. Yes, he loses a few places in the race. Yes, he is at a disadvantage. But he is still racing. He is still alive

Frederick Crews

Ephemerality is the little magazine's generic fate; by promptly dying it gives proof that it remained loyal to its first program.

George Eliot

What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.

Henry Louis Gates

My father and I made genetics history. We were the first African-Americans and the first father and son anywhere to have their genomes sequenced.

Henry Miller

To be silent the whole day long, see no newspaper, hear no radio, listen to no gossip, be thoroughly and completely lazy, thoroughly and completely indifferent to the fate of the world is the finest medicine a man can give himself.

Henry Miller

We create our fate everyday

Henry Miller

We create our fate every day . . . most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.

Henry Miller

Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed.

Helen Keller

I trust, and I recognize the beneficence of the power which we all worship as supreme- Order, Fate, the Great Spirit, Nature, God. I recognize this power in the sun that makes all things grow and keeps life afoot. I make a friend of this indefinable force…this is my religion of optimism.

Cate Blanchett

The notion of fate and destiny is a very Greek concept. Working in the theater you do think a lot about that, because as a storyteller you do think, 'At what point was this always going to happen and what part have I got a hand in being able to change things?'

George Eliot

Fate has carried me 'Mid the thick arrows: I will keep my stand Not shrink and let the shaft pass by my breast To pierce another.

George Eliot

Whatever be thy fate today, Remember, this will pass away!

Geoffrey Chaucer

The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

This was when I heard that the first symptom of old age is when you begin to resemble your father.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

When I stand and contemplate my fate and see the path along which you have led me, I reach my end, for artless I surrendered to one who is my undoing and my end.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Many years later, in front of the firing squad, colonel Aureliano Buendía would remember that distant afternoon his father took him to see ice.

Franz Wright

I wish my father could be around.

Names and individuals are unimportant when Germany's final fate is at stake.

Frank Pittman

As boys without bonds to their fathers grow older and more desperate about their masculinity, they are in danger of forming gangs in which they strut their masculinity for one another, often overdo it, and sometimes turn to displays of fierce, macho bravado and even violence.

Christopher Atkins

I'm a very big believer in fate.

Christine Lagarde

When my father passed away and then when later on I gave birth, those are sort of ground-breaking experiences that put everything else into perspective.

Resentments, carried too far, expose us to a fate analogous to that of the fish-hawk, when he strikes his talons too deep into a fish beyond his capacity to lift, and is carried under and drowned by it.

Isaac Watts

To God the Father, God the Son, And God the Spirit, Three in One, Be honour, praise, and glory given By all on earth, and all in heaven.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Free will without fate is no more conceivable than spirit without matter, good without evil.