Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anatole France

An old philosopher said to Monsieur Coignard, a Reverend Father: 'You are a pig!' To which Abad Coignard answered: 'You flatter me, sir. But unfortunately, I'm only a man.'

Anatole France

Play is hand-to-hand encounter with Fate.

Anatole France

I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.

Amanda Lindhout

I, too, was carrying around my own fate. All the things I couldn't know sat somewhere inside, embroidered into me-maybe not quite fixed to the point of inevitability but waiting, in any event, for a chance to unspool.

Amanda Seyfried

I'm a big fan of moustaches. I think it's because - and this is not Freudian innuendo at all - my father has a moustache.

Anne Fadiman

I can imagine few worse fates than walking around for the rest of one's life wearing a typo.

Anne Graham Lotz

The first secret to loving others is to immerse yourself in a love relationship with God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit - and abide there.

Anjelica Huston

I was always reticent about taking offerings from my father, and I think it was maybe because I felt the caveat was that I had to give something back, and I didn't like that position. But I've never felt incumbent on anyone to kind of keep them lifted or to support them, necessarily. I do that by wish or by option.

Andrew Vachss

Be he the first to stand or the last, a man must stand," the father had told his adoring son. "And if there is only one man, then that man must stand alone." ~Thomas to Bruce Wayne

Andrew Wyeth

I surrender to the world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare.

Andrew Wyeth

I get letters from people about my work. The thing that pleases me most is that my work touches their feelings. In fact, they don't talk about the paintings. They end up telling me the story of their life or how their father died.

Andres Iniesta

My father has made a museum with my cuttings and photographs.

Chuck Palahniuk

History is filled with brilliant people who wanted to fix things and just made them worse.

Chuck Palahniuk

The air will always be to filled with something. Your body too sore or tired. Your father too drunk. Your wife too cold. You will always have some excuse not to live your life.

Chuck Palahniuk

What you have to understand, is your father was your model for God.

Chuck Palahniuk

There's no escaping fate, it just keeps going. Day and night, the future just keeps coming at you.

Chuck Palahniuk

Just let your hand drop; and let fate decide for you.

Chuck Palahniuk

And it [Fight Club novel] was written so general that my father thought I was writing about his father, and my boss thought I was writing about his boss. People really put themselves, you know, in the shoes of the narrator.

Chuck Knox

Don't bemoan your fate. Everybody's not going to be dealt the same hand. Everybody's going to go through tough times.

Chuck Grassley

If we fulfill our responsibility to the Constitution, the Supreme Court will be filled with superior legal minds who will pursue the one agenda that our founding fathers intended in writing the Constitution: justice, rather than political or personal goals.

Chuck Close

Losing my father at a tender age was extremely important in being able to accept what happened to me later when I became a quadriplegic.

Christopher Reeve

When I first began acting, I assumed an intellectual responsibility attached to my profession, which I had accepted for a long time. My father taught me that an actor had to have a social and political conscience, and that the work that he does has to reflect from that.

Christopher Walken

One thing that's happened to me is I've been around a long time and I've played a lot of villains and so forth. I think it had to do with, well one thing is that I looked younger than I was for a long time. Now I think I'm suddenly starting to play people's father.

Christopher Walken

I used to love Danish. My father used to make a Boston cream pie. You never see that anymore.

Christopher Walken

I think all men when they get older, they look at the mirror and they probably see their father a little bit.

Christopher Paolini

What will be will be.No one can escape fate's design.

Christopher Paolini

...life is in Fate's hands now. You made your choice to stay... it's too late to change that, so stop agonizing over it.... You're making my scales itch. Saphira, from "Eragon

Christopher Paolini

Fight if you wish. Deny what is before you if it comforts you. But nothing you do can change your fate.

Christopher Meloni

The surprising thing about fatherhood was finding my inner mush. Now I want to share it with the world.

Angie Harmon

My dressing room was right on the water, and I would climb out of my window and walk around on the roof, whenever I needed time to think, or whenever I couldn't get a scene together. My father even came out there on the roof with me. We just walked around and talked up there, just to get away from everything, and nobody could get to us there. I really do love that place very much. It holds a very deep-rooted place in my heart.

Angelina Jolie

I'd love to have a great relationship with my father. And unfortunately... I don't.

Angelina Jolie

He's amazing. He's a really dedicated father. I feel very blessed that every day I wake up and I live with my favourite people in the world, as well as my best friend.

Angelina Jolie

I'm not somebody that thinks about destiny and fate, but I don't walk away from it when something unfolds.