Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mary Renault

Go with your fate, but not beyond. Beyond leads to dark places.

Mary Beard

Fame is fickle. If the media turn against me, I will just have more time in the library. Not bad as a fate.

Marquis de Sade

Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?

Mary McCarthy

As soon as you become a writer, you lose contact with ordinary experience or tend to. ... the worst fate of a writer is to become a writer.

Mary McCarthy

To be disesteemed by people you don't have much respect for is not the worst fate.

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.

Natalia Ginzburg

Today, as never before, the fates of men are so intimately linked to one another that a disaster for one is a disaster for everybody.

Murray Kempton

The fates have a way of demanding of a man that he suffer his greatest moments all by himself; being lone seems as often attendant upon reality as being in company is attendant upon the flight from reality.

Katherine Paterson

I was behaving, just like I promised, but fate intervened.

Kate DiCamillo

Reader, you must know that an interesting fate (sometimes involving rats, sometimes not) awaits almost everyone, mouse or man, who does not conform.

The numbers look great but it doesn't seal the fate on having no increase in rates next week. It seems to be there are still some upside risks to inflation pressures.

They feared that the same fate awaited them.

Dale Jarrett

This pretty much seals our fate in regards to making the Chase. We went for so long this season without having issues like this. I guess we're due.

Dale Jarrett

This pretty much seals our fate in regards to making the Chase, ... We went for so long this season without having issues like this. I guess we're due.

The severity of the downturn still hinges on the fate of consumers.

Ehud Barak

their own fate and the fate of their families, their children, all of us.

The fate of these seven refineries -- you don't know how long they'll be out for.

The (fate) of San Jose is really up to San Francisco.

Throw a lucky man into the sea, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth.

Craig Venter

The gene 'klotho' was named after the Greek Fate purported to spin the thread of life, because it contributes to longevity.

James Shirley

There is no armor against fate.

James Shirley

There is no armour against fate.

James Russell Lowell

The wisest man could ask no more of fate Than to be simple, modest, manly, true, Safe from the many, honored by the few; Nothing to court in Church, or World, or State, But inwardly in secret to be great.

James Russell Lowell

Granting our wish is one of Fate's saddest jokes.

James Russell Lowell

Fate loves the fearless.

James Fallows

Societies are healthiest when their radius of trust is broad and when people feel they can influence their own fate.

Laura Hillenbrand

Though all three men faced the same hardship, their differing perceptions of it appeared to be shaping their fates. Louie and Phil's hope displaced their fear and inspired them to work toward their survival, and each success renewed their physical and emotional vigor. Mac's resignation seemed to paralyze him and the less he participated in their efforts to survive, the more he slipped. Though he did the least, as the days passed, it was he who faded the most. Louie and Phil's optimism, and Mac's hopelessness, were becoming self-fulfilling.

Friedrich Schiller

Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny.