Famous Quotes & Sayings

J. K. Rowling

We can't choose our fate, but we can choose others. Be careful in knowing that.

J. K. Rowling

Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.

Guillaume Apollinaire

One can't carry one's father's corpse about everywhere.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Human life is inexplicable, and still without meaning: a fool may decide its fate.

I don't think there's any fat in it. I don't know that there's a lot of room to move this down without compromising programs.

Julie Burchill

I am not one of those fat birds who feels miserable because models are thin. Frankly, I feel more insulted by the idea that unless I see other fat birds in fashion magazines, I will be reduced to a sniveling wreck of a human being.

Natasha Hamilton

I don't want to tempt fate, but it is going really well,

Doug Jones

I don't want to have my fate tied to an old, raggedy T-shirt or a pair of underwear.

Hunter S. Thompson

That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn't entirely conquer - he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation.

Hunter S. Thompson

The highways are crowded with people who drive as if their sole purpose in getting behind the wheel is to avenge every wrong done them by man, beast or fate. The only thing that keeps them in line is their fear of death, jail and lawsuits.

Overall, we think it was a big victory. The little guy doesn't have to subsidize the fat cat's health care.

O why do you walk through the fields in gloves, / Missing so much and so much? / O fat white woman whom nobody loves.

Virgil

Our fate, whatever it is to be, will be overcome by patience under it.

Our fate rests in our own hands. And that's a good position to be in.

Virgil

Wherever the fates lead us let us follow.

Wilhelm von Humboldt

How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.

Sarah Jessica Parker

I'm a bitter-ender. It's potentially my fatal flaw that I do not give up on something. I will not rest. I work and work and work until I can no longer and someone has to remove me from the premises.

Nico Mirallegro

When you do 'Mad Fat Diary' or 'The Village,' you always learn about the particular time period, and that's always nice for an actor.

My father had a passion for love. It's mostly what he talked about in his songs, and I still have his old records today.

Don Marquis

Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.

Darlene Cates

I'm not opposed to doing science fiction or comedy, but there has to be respect. I refuse to be the joke, the fat woman joke, in any movie. I've turned down roles.

Aberjhani

The fate that condemns or saves one sooner or later often condemns or saves another.

Aberjhani

As goes love so goes life.

Aaron Neville

I was raised Catholic, but my father's people were Methodist, so we went to both churches.

Adam Johnson

Orphans are the only ones who get to choose their fathers, and they love them twice as much.

Adam Gopnik

Writing is the process of finding something to distract you from writing, and of all the helpful distractions - adultery, alcohol and acedia, all of which aided our writing fathers - none can equal the Internet.

Abraham Clark

Our fates are in the hands of An Almighty God, to whom I can with pleasure confide my own; he can save us, or destroy us; his Councils are fixed and cannot be disappointed, and all his designs will be Accomplished.

Abraham Cowley

I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, to-morrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today.

Ludwig von Mises

It is evident that youth is the first victim of the trend toward bureaucratization. The young men are deprived of any opportunity to shape their own fate.

Annabella Sciorra

Unlike a movie, you kind of learn things about yourself every week, ... When you get a new script, you find out, oh, I was with the FBI, or oh, my father was this, or oh, this is where I grew up. They can make it up as they go along.

We're really lucky we have John Wright playing the father, and he's wonderful.

William Shakespeare

Either to die the death or to abjure For ever the society of men. Therefore, fair Hermia, question your desires; Know of your youth, examine well your blood, Whether, if you yield not to your father's choice, You can endure the livery of a nun, For aye to be in shady cloister mew'd, To live a barren sister all your life, Chanting faint hymns to the cold fruitless moon. Thrice-blessed they that master so their blood, To undergo such maiden pilgrimage; But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd, Than that which withering on the virgin thorn Grows, lives and dies in single blessedness.

William Shakespeare

Look to her, Moor, if thou has eyes to see. She has deceived her father, and may thee.