Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Nicholas Sparks

Do you ever wonder why things have to turn out the way they do?

Nicholas Sparks

Where does a story truly begin? In life, there are seldom clear-cut beginnings, those moments when we can, in looking back, say that everything started. Yet there are moments when fate intersects with our daily lives, setting in motion a sequence of events whose outcome we could never have foreseen.

John Green

Did I help you toward a fate you didn't want, Alaska, or did I just assist in your willful self-destruction?

Patti Smith

Fate is like a secret friend that helps push you on into life.

P. L. Travers

Once we have accepted the story we cannot escape the story's fate.

Ozzy Osbourne

Do you know what causes low voter turnout in America? It's the result of having the fate of our nation at stake. This began with the bitter presidential election of 1828, which pitted the education, cultivation, and puritan constraint of John Quincy Adams against the yahoo populism of Andrew Jackson, thereby deciding permanently whether America would become a shining city upon a hill or an overlighted strip mall along a highway.

P. G. Wodehouse

...it has been well said that it is precisely these moments when we are feeling that ours is the world and everything that's in it that Fate selects for sneaking up on us with the rock in the stocking.

P. G. Wodehouse

I'm not absolutely certain of the facts, but I rather fancy it's Shakespeare who says that it's always just when a fellow is feeling particularly braced with things in general that Fate sneaks up behind him with the bit of lead piping.

P. G. Wodehouse

Unseen in the background, Fate was quietly slipping lead into the boxing-glove.

Ovid

Had I not sinned what would there be for you to pardon. My fate has given you the opportunity for mercy.

Mary Wortley Montagu

I am afraid we are little better than straws upon the water; we may flatter ourselves that we swim, when the current carries us along.

Mary Wortley Montagu

Miserable is the fate of writers: if they are agreeable, they are offensive; and if dull, they starve.

Mary Hunter Austin

No man can be stronger than his destiny.

Marsilio Ficino

The fate of the poor shepherd, who, blinded and lost in the snow-storm, perishes in a drift within a few feet of his cottage door, is an emblem of the state of man.

Martha Gellhorn

The only way I can pay back for what fate and society have handed me is to try, in minor totally useless ways, to make an angry sound against injustice.

Marshall McLuhan

Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

No man or woman can live another's fate

Marguerite Young

I never thought of myself as either a woman or a man. I thought of myself as a person who was born to a writer, who was doomed to be a writer.

Marguerite Young

we live our fate before we realize exactly what it is.

Michel de Montaigne

The sage says that all that is under heaven incurs the same law and the same fate.

Marianne Williamson

I do know middle age can bring greater depth, greater wisdom, greater capacity for love, greater capacity for relationship, greater consciousness and desire to serve and awareness of the fate of mankind - all these wonderful things, yes. And I know I'm getting there.

Mark Kurlansky

Fate likes to tease paranoids.'

Francois Rabelais

Bottle, whose Mysterious Deep Do's ten thousand Secrets keep, With attentive Ear I wait; Ease my Mind, and speak my Fate.

Francois Rabelais

Fate leads the willing, and th' unwilling draws.

George Chapman

Fate's such a shrewish thing.

Christoph Martin Wieland

The compulsion of fate is bitter.

Christoph Martin Wieland

Man blindly works the will of fate. [Ger., Blindlings that er blos den Willen des Geschickes.]

Christian Lous Lange

History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our own?

Chris Murray

Destiny and fate are of one’s own making, and riches and happiness are rarely found at the end of an easily-traversed path.