Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ernest Becker

In seeking to avoid evil, humanity is responsible for bringing more evil into the world than organisms could ever do merely by exercising their digestive tracts. It is our ingenuity, rather than our animal nature, that has given our fellow creatures such a bitter earthly fate.

Cassandra Clare

Let me give you a piece of advice. The handsome young fellow who's trying to rescue you from a hideous fate is never wrong. Not even if he says the sky is purple and made of hedgehogs.

Evangeline Lilly

Originally, I wanted to do humanitarian work. I actually feel that getting into acting, which fate has led me to, is my window and path into humanitarian work. I always said I want to do something important. And I feel this work is what's helping me get there.

Jenny Frost

I feel like my mum is in heaven sharing a cup of tea with Lady Fate and plotting my life out like a chess game.

Jenna Elfman

There is such a thing as fate, but it only takes you so far. Then its up to you to make it happen.

Frank Herbert

To come under siege was the inevitable fate of power.

Gus Van Sant

Narcotics have been systematically scapegoated and demonized. The idea that anyone can use drugs and escape a horrible fate is ananathema to these idiots. I predict that in the near future, right wingers will use drug hysteria as a pretext to set up an international police apparatus.

Jim Butcher

Men plan. Fate Laughs. Guis Alera, First Lord

H. G. Wells

Losing your way on a journey is unfortunate. But, losing your reason for the journey is a fate more cruel.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

When I need a word and do not find it in French, I select it from other tongues, and the reader has either to understand or translate me. Such is my fate.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

The fate of a nation depends on the way that they eat.

Jean Baudrillard

One of the pleasures of travel is to dive into places where others are compelled to live and come out unscathed, full of the malicious pleasure of abandoning them to their fate.

Krzysztof Kieslowski

You have to want to make a film for other reasons - to say something, to tell a story, to show somebody's fate - but you can't want to make a film simply for the sake of it.

Joseph Joubert

Chance generally favors the prudent.

Joseph Joubert

Fate and necessity are unconquerable.

Knut Hamsun

When good befalls a man he calls it Providence, when evil fate.

Knut Hamsun

No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation.

Moliere

The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.

Moliere

There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.

J. K. Rowling

We can't choose our fate, but we can choose others. Be careful in knowing that.

J. K. Rowling

Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Human life is inexplicable, and still without meaning: a fool may decide its fate.

Jean-Paul Marat

It seems that the inevitable fate of man is never attain complete freedom: princes everywhere tend to despotism and the people to servitude.

Gloria Estefan

We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.

Gloria Estefan

The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come. Where will you be a few years down the line. Will it be everything you dreamed of. We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.

Gloria Estefan

We seal our fate with the choices we make.

Hunter S. Thompson

That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn't entirely conquer - he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation.

Hunter S. Thompson

The highways are crowded with people who drive as if their sole purpose in getting behind the wheel is to avenge every wrong done them by man, beast or fate. The only thing that keeps them in line is their fear of death, jail and lawsuits.

Hubert H. Humphrey

If today there is a proper American "sphere of influence" it is this fragile sphere called earth upon which all men live and share a common fate--a sphere where our influence must be for peace and justice.

Howard Thurman

Fate is the raw materials of experience. They come uninvited and often unanticipated. Destiny is what a man does with these raw materials.

Howard Stern

Most of the things I do are misunderstood. Hey, after all, being misunderstood is the fate of all true geniuses, is it not?

Honore de Balzac

Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The esteem of good men is the reward of our worth, but the reputation of the world in general is the gift of our fate.