Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ayn Rand

I do not think that tragedy is our natural fate and I do not live in chronic dread of disaster. It is no happiness, but suffering that I consider unnatural. It is not success, but calamity that I regard as the abnormal exception in Human Life.

We treat this as Mardi Gras weekend because there are a lot of celebrations occurring prior to Fat Tuesday.

Jason Mraz

'Yes' is the mother of all positive words, next to 'love.' Maybe 'love' is the father of all positive words.

Charles Fort

The fate of all explanation is to close one door only to have another fly wide open.

Charles Bukowski

it seemed to me that I had never met another person on earth as discouraging to my happiness as my father. and it appeared that I had the same effect upon him.

Charles Bukowski

there's no chance at all: we are all trapped by a singular fate.

Charles Bukowski

Bad luck for the young poet would be a rich father, an early marriage, an early success or the ability to do anything well.

Pink

When I'm on tour, I'm in really good shape. When I get home, I cook, I eat, I get fat and happy.

We used to have a phone in the store and the fathers would phone and we kids would run down and take messages down to the Jewish families,

Edward Abbey

In the end, for all our differences and conflicts, most women and men share the same food, work, shelter, bed, life, joy, anguish, and fate. We need each other.

Edward Abbey

Narrow-minded provincialism: Sad to say but true -- I am more interested in the mountain lions of Utah, the wild pigs of Arizona, than I am in the fate of all the Arabs of Araby, all the Wogs of Hindustan, all the Ethiopes of Abyssinia....

Edward Abbey

By the age of forty, a man is responsible for his face. And his fate.

Eddie Trunk

My father will go see Trans-Siberian Orchestra every single year. I mean, he's completely into it.

Eddie Rickenbacker

Let the moment come when nothing is left but life, and you will find that you do not hesitate over the fate of material possessions.

Atom Egoyan

The fathers greatest folly is that he believes he can be a much more simple person than he is; he is not really able to deal with his own complexity as a human being.

Atul Gawande

When we lived in a society where we had large families that lived together, especially in agricultural societies like my grandfather and father grew up in, the result is you always had family around to take care of you.

Aristotle

Being a father is the most rewarding thing a man whose career has plateaued can do.

Aristotle

Men in general desire the good and not merely what their fathers had.

Ben Jonson

Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.

Ben Jonson

I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.

Basil Bunting

I hate Science. It denies a man's responsibility for his own deeds, abolishes the brotherhood that springs from God's fatherhood. It is a hectoring, dictating expertise, which makes the least lovable of the Church Fathers seem liberal by contrast.

Eddie Vedder

You can't be perfect. You can't be the perfect father. You can't be the perfect singer.

Elizabeth Edwards

There is nothing about resilience that I can say that my father did not first utter silently in eighteen years of living inside a two-dimensional cutout of himself.

Elizabeth Edwards

My father had gone to Vietnam.

Elizabeth Bowen

No, it is not only our fate but our business to lose innocence, and once we have lost that, it is futile to attempt a picnic in Eden.

Elizabeth Bowen

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

Both Italy and Britain have a great tailoring tradition. British men are famously elegant and careful with their style: they love to have their clothes tailored, and they often have a trusted tailor who is passed on from father to son. Plus you have this great textile and fabric tradition, which has been a source of inspiration to us.

Dominic Chianese

My father was an American who could cuss in Italian and make an aria out of it. It was wonderful to watch. But then again, he was a Gemini. I believe in that stuff.

Dizzy Dean

I only went to the third grade because my father only went to the fourth and I didn't want to pass him.

Dave Pelzer

Draw Support From Those You Know And Trust. Don't Leave Your Happiness To Fate.

Edwin Arnold

Yet who shall shut out Fate?

William Temple

Some of the Fathers went so far as to esteem the love of music a sign of predestination, as a thing divine, and reserved for the felicities of heaven itself.

Ahmet Zappa

I think what my father appreciated was the science experiment of life. He had these kids, and they had their own experiences. He wanted us to discover the world for ourselves.