“Ahab is for ever Ahab, man. This whole act's immutably decreed. 'Twas rehearsed by thee and me a billion years before this… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Human reason has the peculiar fate in one species of its cognitions that it is burdened with questions which it cannot dismiss,… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“A thousand years from now nobody is going to know that you or I ever lived. The cynic is right, but lazy.… — Jackson Burnett Copy Share Image
I wrote my first screenplay on a lark, because it was a storytelling format that felt like a familiar shorthand - we… — Lisa Lutz Copy Share Image
Narrow-minded provincialism: Sad to say but true -- I am more interested in the mountain lions of Utah, the wild pigs of… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
They had rejected the soul-body dichotomy, with its two corollaries: the impotence of man's mind and the damnation of this earth; they… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Men make their own history; but they make it under given conditions, and they become entangled thereby in a fate which is… — Reinhard Bendix Copy Share Image
The life-fate of the modern individual depends not only upon the family into which he was born or which he enters by… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
I saw a delicate flower had grown up two feet high between the horses' feet and the wheel-track. Which Dakin's and Maynard's… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Listen, Kafka. What you’re experiencing now is the motif of many Greek tragedies. Man doesn’t choose fate. Fate chooses man. That’s the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The perception of linked fate and that feeling of being always on the spot as a representative of the race, at least… — Randall Kennedy Copy Share Image
“It all seems like a horrible tragedy, with fate pressing on relentlessly to some destined end. Everything that one does seems, no… — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
I will insist the Hebrews have [contributed] more to civilize men than any other nation. If I was an atheist and believed… — John Adams Copy Share Image
At 16 I was very interested in palmistry. The fate line on my right palm broke into two parts that ran for… — June Brown Copy Share Image
Our situation on this earth seems strange. Every one of us appears here involuntarily and uninvited for a short stay, without knowing… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“That is life, isn’t it? Fate. Luck. Chance. A long series of what-if’s that lead from one moment to the next, time… — Kelseyleigh Reber Copy Share Image
“Our destinies are riddled with challenges that have a tendency to ruin well laid plans. Many have attempted to take fate into… — Peter Koevari Copy Share Image
Fate never promises to tell you everything up front. You aren't always shown the path in life you're supposed to take. But… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
Why can't I write this note on my wall,telling you how disappointed I am in you... Why can't you just tell me… — Christiana Copy Share Image
Of no distemper, of no blast he died, But fell like autumn fruit that mellow'd long,- Even wonder'd at, because he dropp'd… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
“I wonder if there was anything I could have done differently. I hope I would have done everything differently, except I know… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
Men who no longer can make sure of the reality which they feel and experience through talking about it and sharing it… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Fate handed Barack Obama the best of all political gifts - a dyspeptic, surly, spiteful opposition on the one hand and very… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
we look up and we hope the stars look down, we pray that there may be stars for us to follow, stars… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Humanity is our common lot. All men are made of the same clay. There is no difference, at least here on Earth,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
alone with everybody the flesh covers the bone and they put a mind in there and sometimes a soul, and the women… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“The possibility of waking up from (or even in) the dream offers a glimmer of hope, a sense that there’s more to… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
I wish that I could write. I think that's a wonderful outlet for an artist. You are ultimately in control. Your fate… — Mary Tyler Moore Copy Share Image
Surely the fates are forever kind, though Nature's laws are more immutable than any despot's, yet to man's daily life they rarelyseem… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
America is woven of many strands; I would recognize them and let it so remain. It's 'winner take nothing' that is the… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
“There's a bug inside you. Growing in you, eating everything you've forced yourself to forget, everything you don't want to think about.… — Kouhei Kadono Copy Share Image
Life ain't more than gameboard space With hoops to jump and dreams to chase And one day fate'll put us all in… — Christine Anderson Copy Share Image
“So if you love me, let me go. And run away before I know. My heart is just too dark to care.… — Slipknot Copy Share Image
The thing about Champions League football is it can turn on an instant. You can have a very good, solid team over… — Javier Zanetti Copy Share Image
And so they parted, she to the east, and he to the west. The test they had agreed upon, however, was utterly… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
In everybodys life there is a point of no return. And in a very few cases, a point where you cant go… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“They say that nothing good or happy goes on for very long, or rather does not last, but in my opinion the… — Helen Azar Copy Share Image
At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Ash pulled me closer, his eyes gentle as they gazed into mine. "Meghan, I'm going to tell you something someone once told… — Julie Kagawa Copy Share Image