Famous Quotes & Sayings

Friedrich Nietzsche

Man is something that shall be overcome.... Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman -- a rope over an abyss... What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end.

Jeanette Winterson

Destiny is a worrying concept. I don't want to be fated, I want to choose.

Jeanette Winterson

What can i tell you about the choices we make? Fate reads like the polar opposite of decision, and so much of life reads like fate.

Jeanette Winterson

For fate may hang on any moment and at any moment be changed.

Jeanette Winterson

I knew it like destiny, and at the same time, I knew it as choice.

Jewel

I was Renee Zellweger's fat doppelganger. If she ever played in a movie where she needed to be fat, apparently I could be her stunt double.

Jim Fowler

My father being an outdoors person, he used to take us on quite a few adventures thorugh the wild areas down there, introducing us to alligators and rattlesnakes and all the trees and plants.

Jerry Lewis

When I was a kid, I said to my father one afternoon, 'Daddy, will you take me to the zoo?' He answered, 'If the zoo wants you, let them come and get you',

Jennifer Hudson

If it’s meant for me, it will be.' Those words are my mantra in life, and it has never let me down.

Jeff Buckley

Fate is gonna find you in your glass of champagne.

Jean-Paul Sartre

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Georges Duhamel

In the beds which the piety of the public has prepared on every side, stricken men await the verdict of fate.

George S. Patton

Sometimes I think your life and mine are under the protection of some supreme being or fate , because, after many years of parallel thought, we find ourselves in the positions we now occupy.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The danger in happiness - "Now everything is turning out right for me; from now on i'll love every turn of fate - Who wants to be my fate?

Friedrich Nietzsche

Triumph depends on a roll of Fate's dice; the ultimate prize is a place in Heaven.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Life without music is only error, exhaustion, exile... Indeed, there is nothing that concerns me more than the fate of music.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Having become conscious of the truth he once perceived, man now sees only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence, he now understands the symbolic element in Ophelia's fate, he now recognizes the wisdom of the woodland god, Silenus: it nauseates him.

Friedrich Nietzsche

One is necessary, one is a piece of fate, one belongs to the whole, one is the whole - there exists nothing which could judge, measure, compare, condemn our being, for that would be to judge, measure, compare, condemn the whole...But nothing exists apart from the whole!

Gamal Abdel Nasser

Fate does not play jokes.

Gamal Abdel Nasser

Fate does not jest and events are not a matter of chance. There is no existence out of nothing.

Gamal Abdel Nasser

People do not want words - they want the sound of battle - the battle of destiny.

Freeman Dyson

As a working hypothesis to explain the riddle of our existence, I propose that our universe is the most interesting of all possible universes, and our fate as human beings is to make it so

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.