Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ian Mcewan

He never believed in fate or providence, or the future being made by someone in the sky. Instead, at every instant, a trillion trillion possible futures; the pickiness of pure chance and physical laws seemed like freedom from the scheming of a gloomy god.

Ian Mcewan

I did not kill my father, but I sometimes felt I had helped him on his way. And but for the fact that it coincided with a landmark in my own physical growth, his death seemed insignificant compared to what followed.

Ian Caldwell

A son is a promise that time makes to a man,the guarantee every father receives that whatever he holds dear will someday be considered foolish, and that person he loves best in the world will misunderstand him.

Hugh Leonard

My father I liked, but it was only after his death that I got to know him by writing the play.

Hugh Leonard

Arnold Bennett was a writer I admired. He was actually taking notes at his father's deathbed.

Hugh Howey

What we control," Juliette said, "is our actions once fate puts us there.

Hugh Laurie

I have a reverence for medicine because I hero-worshiped my father [a former doctor], and because I admire doctors, I admire study, empiricism and rational thought. I don't study, empiricize or think rationally myself - but I admire it in others.

Hugh Laurie

Humility was a cult in my family. I only got it out of my father by accident when he was very old that he had won an Olympic gold medal.

Hugh Jackman

My father taught me that losing your temper is a self-indulgent act.

Hugh Jackman

My parents were drawn to the idea that there was space and opportunity in Australia. For the meagre sum of £10, you could sail your entire family out to Australia, so that's what my father chose to do.

Hugh Jackman

Becoming a father, I think it inevitably changes your perspective of life. I don't get nearly enough sleep. And the simplest things in life are completely satisfying. I find you don't have to do as much, like you don't go on as many outings.

Hugh Jackman

To this day, I am the least materialistic person I know, because my father didn't raise me to just go out and buy this or that car. The only reason I wanted to make money as an actor was because I'm passionate about food!

Horace Walpole

Of Ickworth's boys, their father's joys, There is but one a bad one; The tenth is he, the parson's fee, And indeed he is a sad one. No love of fame, no sense of shame, And a bad heart, let me tell ye: Without, all brass; within, all ass, And the puppy's name is Felly.

Horace

Each day that fate adds to your life, put down as so much gain.

Horace

With equal pace, impartial Fate Knocks at the palace, as the cottage gate.

Horace

Who is a good man? He who keeps the decrees of the fathers, and both human and divine laws. [Lat., Vir bonus est quis? Qui consulta patrum, qui leges juraque servat.]

Homer

Fear, O Achilles, the wrath of heaven; think on your own father and have compassion upon me, who am the more pitiable

Homer

Few sons are equal to their fathers; most fall short, all too few surpass them.

Homer

Nothing feebler than a man does the earth raise up, of all the things which breathe and move on the earth, for he believes that he will never suffer evil in the future, as long as the gods give him success and he flourishes in his strength; but when the blessed gods bring sorrows too to pass, even these he bears, against his will, with steadfast spirit, for the thoughts of earthly men are like the day which the father of gods and men brings upon them.

Homer

Toil is the lot of all, and bitter woe The fate of many.

Homer

Jove lifts the golden balances that show The fates of mortal men, and things below.

Homer

And not a man appears to tell their fate.

I don't think there's any fat in it. I don't know that there's a lot of room to move this down without compromising programs.

I am prepared to sit down and listen to their concerns. Where that leads at this point I wouldn't want to fathom a guess,

Julie Burchill

I am not one of those fat birds who feels miserable because models are thin. Frankly, I feel more insulted by the idea that unless I see other fat birds in fashion magazines, I will be reduced to a sniveling wreck of a human being.

Natasha Hamilton

I don't want to tempt fate, but it is going really well,

Mahmoud Abbas

I don't want to talk about whether firing these rockets is important or not, but I wanted to talk about the destructive consequences. No one of us could forget last week's tragedy when a father and his son were killed by a rocket.

Doug Jones

I don't want to have my fate tied to an old, raggedy T-shirt or a pair of underwear.

Erica Jong

We find our calling or it finds us, and it's a sin against the fates not to use your talent when you have it.

Eric Clapton

Up until I became a father, it was all about self-obsession. But then I learned exactly what it's all about: the delight of being a servant.

Eric Clapton

'My Father's Eyes' is very personal. I realized that the closest I ever came to looking in my father's eyes was when I looked into my son's eyes.

Enzo Ferrari

I am convinced, that when a man tells a woman he loves her, he only means that he desires her; and that the only total love in this world is that of a father for his son.

Enrique Iglesias

In school, kids never really looked at me a different way because I think it was a different generation; they didnt really know who my father was.