Famous Quotes & Sayings

Simon Pegg

We might not know we are seeking people who best enrich our lives, but somehow on a deep subconscious level we absolutely are. Whether the bond is temporary or permanent, whether it succeeds or fails, fate is simply a configuration of choices that combine with others to shape the relationships that surround us. We cannot choose our family, but we can choose our friends, and we sometimes, before we even meet them.

Rick Riordan

Even the gods couldn't devise a fates so twisted.

Thucydides

To be an object of hatred and aversion to their contemporaries has been the usual fate of all those whose merit has raised them above the common level. The man who submits to the shafts of envy for the sake of noble objects pursues a judicious course for his own lasting fame. Hatred dies with its object, while merit soon breaks forth in full splendor, and his glory is handed down to posterity in never-dying strains.

Roger McGough

I could never begin a poem: 'When I am dead' In case it tempted Fate, and Fate gave way.

Thomas Mann

Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph.

Tom Shales

By a twist of fate rather than anything approaching journalistic enterprise, I did the last major interview with Johnny Carson.

Steven Spielberg

Casting sometimes is fate and destiny more than skill and talent, from a director's point of view.

Saadi

The covetous map explores the whole world in pursuit of a subsistence, and fate is close at his heels.

Rosa Luxemburg

The victory of socialism will not descend like fate from heaven.

Susan Orlean

Borders had lousy management and made bad corporate decisions, so its fate is less like a terrible accident than a slow-motion slide into a ditch, but it's hard to be happy about a bookseller's demise.

Stephen Farrell

I think it would be slightly perverse to continue tempting fate by going back to the same places and doing the same sort of thing.

Sri Aurobindo

Thy goal, the road thou choosest are thy fate.

Sri Aurobindo

The soul in man is greater than his fate...

Rick Atkinson

In battle, topography is fate.

Regina Brett

It takes courage to sit on a jury. How many of us want to decide the fate of another person's life or freedom? How many of us want to hold that kind of power in our hands?

Tom Hollander

I do a TV show about a priest in London, and he is also slightly beleaguered and is subject to fate and misfortune and daily difficulty.

Tom Morello

If aliens came down and challenged us to a Battle of the Bands to decide the fate of Planet Earth, I would feel very confident putting early Van Halen forward as our champion.

S. J. Perelman

Fate was dealing from the bottom of the deck.

Stefan Zweig

Fate is never too generous even to its favorites. Rarely do the gods grant a mortal more than one immortal deed.

Stefan Zweig

And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you-- it's born with us the day that we are born.

Stefan Zweig

Those whom fate has dealt hard knocks remain vulnerable for ever afterwards.

Thomas Gray

Beyond the limits of a vulgar fate, Beneath the good how far,-but far above the great.

Thomas Gray

Commerce changes the fate and genius of nations.

Thomas Hardy

Well, these sad and hopeless obstacles are welcome in one sense, for they enable us to look with indifference upon the cruel satires that Fate loves to indulge in.

Thomas Hardy

Indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not.

Thomas B. Macaulay

The Orientals have another word for accident; it is "kismet,"--fate.

Thomas Ligotti

Officially there are no fates worse than death. Unofficially, there is a profusion of such fates. For some people, just living with the thought that they will die is a fate worse than death itself.

Thomas Keller

Whether it's destiny or fate or whatever, I don't think I could do a French Laundry anywhere else.

Thomas Campion

Secret fates Guide our states Both in mirth and mourning.

Viggo Mortensen

We all experience many freakish and unexpected events - you have to be open to suffering a little. The philosopher Schopenhauer talked about how out of the randomness, there is an apparent intention in the fate of an individual that can be glimpsed later on. When you are an old guy, you can look back, and maybe this rambling life has some through-line. Others can see it better sometimes. But when you glimpse it yourself, you see it more clearly than anyone.

Victor Hugo

M. Myriel had to undergo the fate of every newcomer in a little town, where there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think.

Vikram Seth

Don't put things off till it's too late. You are the DJ of your fate.

Viktor E. Frankl

The way in which a man accepts his fate and all the suffering it entails, the way in which he takes up his cross, gives him ample opportunity — even under the most difficult circumstances — to add a deeper meaning to his life. It may remain brave, dignified and unselfish. Or in the bitter fight for self preservation he may forget his human dignity and become no more than an animal