Fateful Quotes

51 quotes by 46 authors

I'm going to Washington on a fateful, even historic, mission. I feel that I am an emissary of all Israel's citizens, even those who do… — Samantha Power
I like to imagine a person's psyche to be like a boardinghouse full of characters. The ones who show up regularly and who habitually follow… — James Hillman
Fateful moments tend to evoke grandeur of speech, especially in French. — Barbara Tuchman
It was many years ago that I got out of a crewtruck in the national forest and ran toward a largeÂ glowing object hovering in the… — Travis Walton
A murmuring, fateful, giant voice, out of the earth and sky, Voice of a mighty dying tree in the Redwood forest dense.... [T]he wood-spirits came… — Walt Whitman
I (God) will leave man to make the fateful guess, Will leave him torn between the no and yes, Leave him unresting till he rests… — Edwin Markham
...Buzz Lukens took that fateful step... — Dan Quayle
The way he shook his hips up there on that stage, but before that fateful day when he left Tennessee all of them were calling… — Tim McGraw
Ecology movements, futurism, feminism, urbanism, protest and disarmament, personal individuation cannot alone save the world from the catastrophe inherent in our very idea of the… — James Hillman
We all have such fateful objects -- it may be a recurrent landscape in one case, a number in another -- carefully chosen by the… — Vladimir Nabokov
At Tara in this fateful hour, I place all Heaven with its power, And the sun with its brightness, And the snow with its whiteness,… — Madeleine L'Engle
Our lives are more like fragmentary dreams than the enactments of conscious selves. We control very little of what we most care about; many of… — John Gray
Under certain circumstances the fateful decisions in life, sometimes even in matters of life and death, are made with an almost indifferent ease. While the… — Peter HÃ¸eg
Human groupings have one main purpose: to assert everyoneâ€™s right to be different, to be special, to think, feel and live in his or her… — Vasily Grossman
This isnâ€™t the first time Iâ€™ve faced death, and I donâ€™t intend for it to be the last,â€ I said, repeating the same words heâ€™d… — Jeaniene Frost
What makes humans human is precisely that they do not know the future. That is why they do the fateful and amusing things they do:… — Lorrie Moore
It is a dangerous and fateful presumption, besides the absurd temerity that it implies, to disdain what we do not comprehend. For after you have… — Michel de Montaigne
The sea answers all questions, and always in the same way; for when you read in the papers the interminable discussions and the bickering and… — Elwyn Brooks White
As we reflect back upon the tragic loss of Challenger and her brave crew of heroes who were aboard that fateful day, I am reminded… — Buzz Aldrin
FEMALE, n. One of the opposing, or unfair, sex. The Maker, at Creation's birth, With living things had stocked the earth. From elephants to bats… — Ambrose Bierce

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