Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Frank McCourt

Bless me, Father, for I have sinned, it's been a minute since my last confession.

Francois Hollande

Austerity need not be Europe's fate.

Frank Luntz

My father was a dentist, and I always thought that he was one of the 10. It's an interesting way to personalize and humanize, which is one of the most important aspects of communication.

Napoleon Bonaparte

A battle sometimes decides everything; and sometimes the most trifling thing decides the fate of a battle.

Napoleon Bonaparte

A magistrate is not a father; he must be just and severe. Only tyrants are fathers.

Napoleon Bonaparte

There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.

Norman Tebbit

I grew up in the 30s with an unemployed father. He didn't riot; he got on his bike and looked for work and he kept looking 'til he found it.

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

Orhan Pamuk

With the death of my father, it wasn't just the objects of everyday life that had changed; even the most ordinary street scenes had become irreplaceable mementos of a lost world whose every detail figured in the meaning of the whole.