The man who meets with a failure attributes this failure…

About seven years ago, I was anchoring a BBC news program and somebody else was brought in to do it. I had that moment…

— Katty Kay

“Alas! An ill fate is on me this day, and all that I do goes amiss!”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“When a man meets the woman with whom he is destined to share his life, he knows.”

— P.O. Dixon

It is usually more important how a man meets his fate than what it is.

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

When a man meets his make, society begins.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

When a man meets a woman who seems too perfect, too sweet, or too agreeable, he tends to become bored very quickly.

— Sherry Argov

Every man meets his Waterloo at last.

— Wendell Phillips

Like driftwood spares which meet and pass Upon the boundless ocean-plain, So on the sea of life, alas! Man nears man, meets, and leaves…

— Matthew Arnold

The unlucky hand dealt to clear and precise writers is that people assume they are superficial and so do not go to any trouble…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It is but seldom that any one overt act produces hostilities between two nations; there exists, more commonly, a previous jealousy and ill will,…

— Washington Irving

It is unfortunate that in most cases when the sins of the father fall on the son it is because unlike God, people refuse…

— Anonymous

Never allow sick attitudes to poison your thinking, nor let ill will make you ill. Avoid making your mind sore by that painful rehurting…

— Norman Vincent Peale

“The growth of his power and fame was matched, in my imagination, by the degree of the punishment I would have liked to inflict…

— Nabokov i Tyrants Destroyed i

There is all the difference in the world between the criminal's avoiding the public eye and the civil disobedience's taking the law into his…

— Hannah Arendt

To think profoundly, to seek and speak truth, to love justice and denounce wrong is to draw upon one's self the ill will of…

— John Lancaster Spalding