A child should never even think about being a "good son." A parent decides that fate for the child. The parent encourages… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
“There are times in your life when things line up and Fate takes a hand in your future," Ptolemy remembered Coydog saying.… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
Temperament lies behind mood; behind will, lies the fate of character. Then behind both, the influence of family the tyranny of culture;… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
In the case of Philando Castile, we believe he was complying, it might have been precipitated by a police officer telling him… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
“as jolaha ka maram na jana, jinh jag ani pasarinhh tana; dharti akas dou gad khandaya, chand surya dou nari banaya; sahastra… — Kabir Copy Share Image
“Behold, if you are in doubt as to my religion, (know that) I serve not those whom you werve besides Allah, but… — Compton Gage Copy Share Image
And last of all, high over thought, in the world of morals, Fate appears as vindicator, levelling the high, lifting the low,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For the truth is that I already know as much about my fate as I need to know. The day will come… — Richard Bode Copy Share Image
Several hundreds of thousands of Palestinian Arabs live in slums known as refugee camps in Gaza, Judea, and Somalia. Attempts by Israel… — Yitzhak Shamir Copy Share Image
As things stand now, I am going to be a writer. I'm not sure that I'm going to be a good one… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
The principal, the only, thing a man makes, is his condition of fate. Though commonly he does not know it, nor put… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I moved through the world like a team of runaway horses in the hands of an obsessed and demented driver. But I… — Bohumil Hrabal Copy Share Image
I love Italian opera - it's so reckless. Damn Wagner, and his bellowings at Fate and death. Damn Debussy, and his averted… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Through the harsh design of fate, Florida was dealt the unfortunate circumstances of bearing the brunt of not one but two hurricanes,… — Ginny Brown-Waite Copy Share Image
We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice… — William James Copy Share Image
But you certainly don't have perspective. And there's so much pressure going into that opening night because you know there's journalists, tons… — James Ponsoldt Copy Share Image
If you want to avoid the usual fate in politics of failure, you need to understand some basic principles about why people… — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
As for the spirit of poverty, I do not remember any moment when it was not in me, although only to that… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Angela Merkel embodies Germany's 20th century fate. It is not up to me to pass judgment on her place in history, but… — Emmanuel Macron Copy Share Image
It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity. The time present is seldom able to… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late. It can give no pleasure, yet it deprives you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe the simplest explanation is, there is no God. No one created the universe and no one directs our fate. This… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“We are Darwin’s confetti. Some of us fall on bare rock. No matter how good you are, you can fail spectacularly. Just… — Ingela Bohm Copy Share Image
No story is a straight line. The geometry of a human life is too imperfect and complex, too distorted by the laughter… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
The word 'idiot' comes from a Greek root meaning private person. Idiocy is the female defect: intent on their private lives, women… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
It's only fair to warn you that you sealed your fate tonight. When you knew you were in trouble, you came to… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
There is a form of eminence which does not depend on fate; it is an air which sets us apart and seems… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Sometimes the future has been determined from the outset, and as hard as anything we try, nonetheless we cannot change. It's not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Challenge who you can be, don't let fate control your future. Fate can come to rule your life if you don't decide… — Steven Redhead Copy Share Image
“I don't believe for a minute-that we wouldn't have become friends somehow-that an unexploded bomb wouldn't have gone off and blown us… — Elizabeth Wein Copy Share Image
“Nothing, nothing mattered, and I knew why. So did he. Throughout the whole absurd life I'd lived, a dark wind had been… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Can it be that my single purpose on this earth is to destroy the hopes of others? Since I have been living… — Mikhail Lermontov Copy Share Image
The universe may be tenderly indifferent to our fate, but we shouldn’t be. We are our brothers’ keepers. There is right, and… — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
Fate is a shape-shifter. It is the kindest and most generous entity imaginable, laying out more goodness than a person deserves, and… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
Here halt, I pray you, make a little stay. O wayfarer, to read what I have writ, And know by my fate… — Alcuin Copy Share Image
It is thus hardly surprising that so many of the great minds in recent history have concerned themselves with economic matters. Indeed,… — Paul Zane Pilzer Copy Share Image
“A thought raced through my mind: Would my descendants know what was spoken on this very piazzetta today? Would anyone? Or would… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
I view the prostitute as one of the few women who is totally in control of her fate, totally in control of… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“Zach's eyelids flutter and droop, his mind a pleasant jumble—things said tonight, last year, last month, things said in dreams. He sees… — Emma Richler Copy Share Image
The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image