George's son had done his work so thoroughly that he was considered too good a workman to live, and was, in fact,… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“I truly wanted to live a life in which I could make my own choices, independent of the 'duties' of my birth… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
I had an indefatigable curiosity about everything. But why should my fate have depended upon that? Why does the curiosity of a… — Zia Haider Rahman Copy Share Image
“What's the world's greatest lie?" the boy asked, completely surprised. "It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Those who wander in the world avowedly and purposely in pursuit of happiness, who view every scene of present joy with an… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
It helps to resign as the controller of your fate. All that energy we expend to keep things running right is not… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Stay hungry, stay young, stay foolish, stay curious, and above all, stay humble because just when you think you got all the… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
For such is the fate of parody: it must never fear exaggerating. If it strikes home, it will only prefigure something that… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I felt compelled to blow the whistle on the penal system, under the delusion that doing so might result in some change,… — Patricia McConnell Copy Share Image
The principal function of form is to advance our understanding. It is the organization of a piece which helps the listener to… — Arnold Schoenberg Copy Share Image
I do believe in fate, Anne-not the blind fate that gives one no freedom of choice, but a fate that sets down… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
We can all make powerful choices. We can all take back control by not blaming chance, fate, or anyone else for our… — Darren Hardy Copy Share Image
“I have chosen a life that depends on one’s awareness that every breath may be his last, every step may bring his… — Nicole Sager Copy Share Image
Luck or tragedy, some people get runs. Then of course there are those who divide it even, good and bad, but we… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
For when you see that the universe cannot be distinguished from how you act upon it, there is neither fate nor free… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
fate is strange.. almost no one i know married the first love of their lives. but for those who did are always… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The glories of our blood and state, Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate, Death lays his icy… — James Shirley Copy Share Image
Maybe mistakes are what make our fate. without them what would shape our lives? Maybe if we had never veered off course… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I think you two are secretly friends,” I joked, as Vidrol shoved Vale to the side to avoid a rotten piece of… — Jane Washington Copy Share Image
“The fate of every love story, he knew very well, is in the rot of togetherness, or in the misery of separation.… — Manu Joseph Copy Share Image
I am wholly yours - you are everything to me; we will sustain each other in all the ills of life it… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
We always loved to say 'If I'd had a Monday-morning class, I never would have met you'. Or 'If you'd been reading… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
The time is now near at hand which must probably determine whether Americans are to be freemen or slaves; whether they are… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Anyone who realises what Love is, the dedication of the heart, so profound, so absorbing, so mysterious, so imperative, and always just… — Edward Carpenter Copy Share Image
“In that instant it all seemed to come clear to him- it came in a grisly flash of light, and he realized… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
It's easy to see why dog rescue is a mushrooming culture. Turning a troubled person's life around is difficult, but rescuers with… — Jon Katz Copy Share Image
“In the first play, the crisis is Thomas More. In the second it’s Anne Boleyn. In the third book, and the third… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
What a fate: to be condemned to work for a firm where the slightest negligence at once gave rise to the gravest… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
White America's live under this accusation that they're racist, they need to prove that they're not racist. In order to prove that… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
“If I knew then what I know now I guess it'd make no difference; Fate's sure in the way somehow. What's important… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
“I could hold you prisoner here for the rest of the day and list everything I love about you, but that’s only… — Nicole Williams Copy Share Image
But I also think all of the great stories in literature deal with loneliness. Sometimes it's by way of heartbreak, sometimes it's… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
The fate of a battle is the result of a moment, of a thought: the hostile forces advance with various combinations, they… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The iron hand of necessity commands, and her stern decree is supreme law, to which the gods even must submit. In deep… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“If you were destined to be a poet, then you won't brainstorm for lines that rhymes. If you were destined to be… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“Suppose two men at cards with nothing to wager save their lives. Who has not heard such a tale? A turn of… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
If you ever go behind the glass and look at the focus groups that are deciding what you're gonna watch, it's scary.… — Adrian Pasdar Copy Share Image
No matter how extreme things get, it still has that ring of truth about it that backs the characters - even though… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
All tragedies deal with fated meetings; how else could there be a play? Fate deals its stroke; sorrow is purged, or turned… — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
