Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gayle Forman

Sometimes fate or life or whatever you want to call it, leaves a door a little open and you walk through it. But sometimes it locks the door and you have to find the key, or pick the lock, or knock the damn thing down. And sometimes, it doesn’t even show you the door, and you have to build it yourself.

Lord Acton

The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition.

Lois McMaster Bujold

I am not a fate worse than death, dammit!

Lynette Fromme

My father had kicked me out of his house at the height of an argument over an opinion difference. He had become so enraged. He told me never to come back, and that was all the severance it took.

Lyndon B. Johnson

At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man's unending search for freedom.

Ludwig Bemelmans

To be a gourmet you must start early, as you must begin riding early to be a good horseman. You must live in France, your father must have been a gourmet. Nothing in life must interest you but your stomach.

Louise Leakey

My father so appropriately put it that we are certainly the only animal that makes conscious choices that are bad for our survival as a species.

Louis de Bernieres

The De Bernieres were very military. I broke the military tradition but I was terribly proud of my father being a soldier.

LZ Granderson

This is the gay agenda: equality. Not special rights, but the rights that are already written by [our Founding Fathers].

Loren Eiseley

I was a shadow among shadows brooding over the fate of other shadows that I alone strove to summon up out of the all-pervading dusk.

Malcolm Gladwell

We [people] can't do much about the fate part, but we can certainly do a lot about the man part.

Malcolm Gladwell

Father: 'Anything but journalism.' I rebelled.

Malcolm Bradbury

But you are involved in the world, and your actions have consequences for other people, and if you don't recognize that, then that's the supreme kind of cruelty. Everyone shares someone else's fate to some extent.

Malachy McCourt

I was not a good father in my first marriage. Although there are ways of deserting the family without leaving physically, I was deserted in my head. I was always out, always in the saloons, always drinking, always messing about.

Malachy McCourt

I would never become an alcoholic like my father because my father deserted us. But diseases, there's no let up.

Malala Yousafzai

My father always says that heroism is in the Pashtun DNA.

Mahesh Babu

Being a father is the most important thing, if you ask me. It changed me as a person and gave me an all new life.

Magnus Carlsen

My father, a fine chess player himself, has been a massive influence throughout my life.

Major Taylor

Each great athlete must some day bow to that perennial old champion, Father Time, even as I, for Time eventually wins.

Maimonides

Eliphas never abandoned his belief that the fate of man is the result of justice, that we do not know all our shortcomings for which we are punished, nor the way how we incur the punishment through them.

Gail Carson Levine

Fate...may...be...thwarted.

Gail Carson Levine

My favorite of my books is DAVE AT NIGHT, because it's loosely based on my father's childhood in an orphanage.

Gail Carson Levine

Father asks frequently in his letters whether I fancy any Ayorthaian young lady or any in our acquaintance at home. I say no I suppose I'm confessing another fault: pride. I don't want him to know that I love if my affections are not returned

Gail Carriger

My father,” she admitted, “was of Italian extraction. Unfortunately, not an affliction that can be cured.” She paused. “Though he did die.

Fred Ward

When you're a father, you know exactly where your heart really is. There's no question of it, no doubt. That part of your life has no second guessing.

Norman Maclean

If our father had had his way, nobody who did not know how to fish would be allowed to disgrace a fish by catching him.

Norman Lear

We did an episode on Good Times which came out of a newspaper article about the incidence of hypertension in black males being higher than whites, and increasing. So we did a show in which James, the father on Good Times, had hypertension.

Orson Pratt

The Godhead consists of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The Father is a material being.

Origen

The honor that we pay to the Son of God, as well as that which we render to God the Father, consists of an upright course of life. This is plainly taught us by the passage, "You that boast of the Law, through breaking the Law dishonor God."...For if he who transgresses the law dishonors God by his transgression,...it is evident that he who keeps the law honors God. So the worshipper of God is he whose life is regulated by the principles and teachings of the Divine Word

Origen

If all things were made through Him, clearly so must the splendid revelations have been which were made to the fathers and prophets, and became to them the symbols of the sacred mysteries of religion.

Orlando Bloom

I love it. I hate that word (fatherhood), but I love being a father; it's changed everything in so many ways.

Orlando Bloom

I'm quite sensitive to women. I saw how my sister got treated by boyfriends. I read this thing that said when you are in a relationship with a woman, imagine how you would feel if you were her father. That's been my approach, for the most part.

Orhan Pamuk

And before long , the msuic , the views rushing past the window , my fathers voice and the narrow cobblestone streets all merged into one , and it seemed to me that while we would never find answers to these fundamental questions , it was good for us to ask them anyway . pg. 284