Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carlos Castaneda

The fate of all of us here has been to know that we are prisoners of power. No one knows why us in particular, but what a great fortune!

Carlos Castaneda

I am already given to the power that rules my fate. And I cling to nothing, so I will have nothing to defend. I have no thoughts, so I will see. I fear nothing, so I will remember myself. Detached and at ease, I will dart past the Eagle to be free.

Dale Carnegie

When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make a lemonade

Agnes de Mille

One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.

Charlotte Bronte

Mr. Rochester, I no more assign this fate to you than I grasp at it for myself. We were born to strive and endure - you as well as I: do so. You will forget me before I forget you.

Charles W. Chesnutt

We are all puppets in the hands of fate and seldom see the strings...

Charles de Gaulle

The leader is always alone before bad fates.

David Guterson

There are things in this universe that we cannot control, and then there are the things we can. . . . Let fate, coincidence, and accident conspire; human beings must act on reason.

Carl Sagan

By exploring other worlds we safeguard this one. By itself, I think this fact more than justifies the money our species has spent in sending ships to other worlds. It is our fate to live during one of the most perilous and, at the same time, one of the most hopeful chapters in human history.

Dean Koontz

This world, which has the potential to be Eden, is instead the hell before Hell. In our arrogance, we have made it so.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

We have not the innocence of Eden; but by God's help and Christ's example we may have the victory of Gethsemane.

Ann Voskamp

I think the fall in Eden was ultimately a failure to give thanks.

Barry Lopez

Eden is a conversation. It is the conversation of the human with the Divine. And it is the reverberations of that conversation that create a sense of place. It is not a thing, Eden, but a pattern of relationships, made visible in conversation. To live in Eden is to live in the midst of good relations, of just relations scrupulously attended to, imaginatively maintained through time. Altogether we call this beauty.

John Steinbeck

No one who is young is ever going to be old.

John Steinbeck

Maybe-- maybe love makes you suspicious and doubting. Is it true that when you love a woman you are never sure-- never sure of her because you aren't sure of yourself?

John Steinbeck

We have only one story. All novels, all poetry, are built on the neverending contest in ourselves of good and evil. And it occurs to me that evil must constantly respawn, while good, while virtue, is immortal. Vice has always a new fresh young face, while virtue is venerable as nothing else in the world is.

Marie Lu

When had Eden grown up? I feel like I blinked and missed it.

Matthew Simpson

There is a contest old as Eden, which still goes on - the conflict between right and wrong, between error and truth. In this conflict every human being has a part.

Jane Wagner

Unless you are at a picnic, life is no picnic.

Camille Paglia

The Dionysian is no picnic.

Barry Eichengreen

The 24% unemployment reached at the depths of the Great Depression was no picnic.

Kim Harrison

Like the end of a picnic, all the weenies will be roasted.

Elaine Stritch

As a diabetic, I'm a walking picnic. I have to eat measured amounts of food at certain times.

Phyllis Bottome

I am never at picnics. The ground was not meant to be sat upon in its raw state, I feel sure, and I prefer my food without either caterpillars or drafts!

Robert Fulghum

The examined life is no picnic.

W. H. Auden

Life is a picnic on a precipice.