In the first place, you shouldn't believe in promises. The world is full of them: the promises of riches, of eternal salvation,… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
...though she had not had the strength to shake off the spell that bound her to him she had lost all spontaneity… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
The fates have informed me that your examination in June will concern the Orb, and I am anxious to give you sufficient… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If fate is the law, then is fate also subject to that law? At some point we cannot escape naming responsibility. It's… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
The spirit in the body is like wine in a glass; when it spills, it seeps into air and earth and light….It’s… — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
When you study history and look at every civilization that has grown up and died off, they all leave one remnant: a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Try telling the poor starving children in third world countries, the people in war torn countries, the women and young girls who… — Danny Santagato Copy Share Image
One of our most important tasks will be to save future generations from a similar political fate and to maintain for ever… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Be a half-assed crusader, a part-time fanatic. Don't worry to much about the fate of the world. Saving the world is only… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“I write our names on the page. What of it, if the paper will be burned? I write our names in the… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“I have often noticed that these things, which obsess me, neither bother nor impress other people even slightly. I am horribly apt… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become prey to the active. The conditions upon which God… — John Philpot Curran Copy Share Image
Many intellectuals feel themselves to be Supermen who are spokesmen for the people. But in my opinion, they're to be pitied. Under… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
When men are engaged in war and conquest, the tools of science become as dangerous as a razor in the hands of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Everything necessarily is or is not, and will be or will not be; but one cannot divide and say that one or… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“He'd never seen the galaxy like this before, so close, so clear, parallel tracks of stars merging and separating, all of it… — A.W. Baldwin Copy Share Image
“The fault lies with us, and only us. It’s not fate, not genetics, not bad luck, and it’s definitely not Mom and… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
You of all beings know how fate works. What happened to you as a human happened because everyone from your parents on… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
We were created in order to live in Paradise, and Paradise was ordained to serve us. What was ordained for us has… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Fate, destiny, karma, miracles, they're all intangibles in the invisible energies of the world/universe, yet their narratives, stories and conclusions are as… — Kemmy Nola Copy Share Image
The first PA I sacked had taken a shine to my then boyfriend, another helped herself to my purse, another decided it… — Liz Carr Copy Share Image
The more serious poetry of the race has a philosophical structure of thought. It contains beliefs and conceptions in regard to the… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Copy Share Image
If there's any business that instructs you in the strong hand of fate, it's show business. You can plan and plan, but… — Sam Waterston Copy Share Image
Man is a fire-stealing animal, and we can't help building machines and machine intelligences, even if, from time to time, we use… — Richard Dooling Copy Share Image
We plan our lives according to a dream that came to us in our childhood, and we find that life alters our… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
“She's mine. She always has been, she always will be. We've been running in opposite directions for the last ten years, and… — Tarryn Fisher Copy Share Image
“Secure in his flight Rider on the constant winds Hawk flies through his days Looks then to the east Prompted by fate’s… — Steve Robison Copy Share Image
“The truth is that Fate does not go out of its way to be dramatic. If you or I had the power… — A.A. Milne Copy Share Image
A child is a person who is going to carry on what you have started ... He will assume control of your… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If we don't stop somewhere, if we don't accept an unhappy compromise, unhappy for both sides, if we don't learn how to… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
“Katrina held Bram in her arms, speaking softly, reassuringly, as they approached baby Modoc. This was an important moment, a beginning, for… — Ralph Helfer Copy Share Image
I am an American, Chicago born – Chicago, that somber city – and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style,… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
If the whole world is evil, then the tragedy that befell you is justified," she went on. "That would make it easier… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“It has been said that marriages are arranged by Heaven, that destiny will bring even the most distantly separated people together, that… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
The hopes of Europe's six million Jews are centered on emigration. I was asked, 'Can you bring six million Jews to Palestine?'… — Chaim Weizmann Copy Share Image
Each life has a different purpose, and some people can find their purpose more easily than others. The key, the most important… — Dan Wells Copy Share Image
Ireland that has wronged no man, that has injured no land, that has sought no dominion over others. Ireland is treated today… — Roger Casement Copy Share Image
“From this vantage point he came to a realization that everything that had happened to him before this had been a journey… — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
Surely the fates are forever kind, though Nature's laws are more immutable than anydespot's, yet to man's daily life they rarely seem… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If we look on heaven and earth as a single crucible, and on the creator as the founder, would there be any… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image