Top 1200 Tempting Fate Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Fate only picks on the cowards and quitters, So give 'em both barrels - and aim for the eyes.

I'm fortunate to have a hilarious, fun, brilliant family that I love spending time with that keeps me in a healthy head space. The internet can be so enthralling in a bad way, in a toxic way, where you feel like your brain is submerged in this sewer and you can't climb out of it. The main thing is spending time with real physical people who remind you who you are. It can be so tempting to believe that you are who the internet says you are.

Fate isn't some middle-aged man with a squint who won't recognize you if you change your clothes.

Look at the fate of summer flowers, which blow at daybreak, droop ere even-song.

Nobody gives a care about the fate of labor as long as they can get their instant gratification.

Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions.

Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things.

Those whom fate has dealt hard knocks remain vulnerable for ever afterwards.

In love the heavens themselves do guide the state; Money buys lands, and wives are sold by fate.

Honestly, when I am filming for anything, I do it because I love it so much. And then whatever happens is fate.

Farming is the riskiest profession in the world since the fate of the crop is closely linked to the behaviour of the monsoon.

But what is to be the fate of the great wen of all? The monster, called, by the silly coxcombs of the press, "the metropolis of the empire"?

Whenever I refused to follow my fate, something very hard to bear would happen in my life.

We're mortal, yet without a known expiration date. It's an inevitable fate worthy of acceptance, but not deserving of predictions.

The V sign is the symbol of the unconquerable will of the occupied territories, and a portent of the fate awaiting the Nazi tyranny.

In my life, all of the best things that have happened to me have almost invariably been accidents or fate.

[Bob] Dylan's broken-heart songs are so much better. Like "Simple Twist of Fate".

All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.

Faber est suae quisque fortunae. Each man is the architect of his own fate.

Be active! Take on responsibility! Work for the things you believe in. If you do not, you are surrendering your fate to others.

No fate holds more splendour for an artist, than the one which greets his effort with such enthousiasm!

Lady Madelyne had sealed her own fate. She'd warmed his feet.

Intentions, good or bad, are not enough. There's luck or fate or something else that takes over.

The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!

In time you shall see Fate approach you In the shape of your own image in the mirror.

Fate is the magnetic pull of our souls toward the people, places, and things we belong with.

All the Democrats do is bicker. They're not concerned about the war or the fate of the United States of America. They're desperate characters.

We're deciding the fate of the multiverse with a flip of a coin. Heads or tails, doc. If that isn't a game, I don't know what is.

Heaven forbids that man should know What change tomorrow's fate may bring.

Casting sometimes is fate and destiny more than skill and talent, from a director's point of view.

Talk to the jury as though your client's fate depends on every word you utter.

The United States must not adopt the tactics of the enemy. Means are important, as ends. Crisis makes it tempting to ignore the wise restraints that make men free. But each time we do so, each time the means we use are wrong, our inner strength, the strength which makes us free, is lessened.

The anxiety of fate is conquered by the self-affirmation of the individual as an infinitely significant microcosmic representation of the universe .

The hands of Fate keep time on a heart-shaped watch." - Harkat Mulds(The Trials of Death)

What’s your name, lad?” “Newton. Newton Pulsifer.” “LUCIFER? What’s that you say? Are ye of the Spawn of Darkness, a tempting beguiling creature from the pit, wanton limbs steaming from the fleshpots of Hades, in tortured and lubricious thrall to your Stygian and hellish masters?” “That’s Pulsifer,” explained Newton. “With a P. I don’t know about the other stuff, but we come from Surrey.” The voice on the phone sounded vaguely disappointed.

For the marriage bed ordained by fate for men and women is stronger than an oath and guarded by Justice.

I wonder whether being a scientist's daughter makes you so conflicted about free will and fate.

Who is it needs such flawless shafts as fate? What archer of his arrows is so choice, or hits the white so surely?

Niall: We're tossed by the winds of fate. Once we end where they blow us, we make of ourselves that we will.

My faith is that I don't believe in fate! We are not puppets or zombies of destiny. We are the main painters of our life's canvas.

We are pretty firm believers in the fact that you make your own fate, with or without the Facebook ordeal.

The works of present life are more important that the whole and entire reliance on wholesale blind fate.

It is comforting to think that we can love so powerfully that fate itself wheels and turns at the command of our souls.

Was there any fate more bitter than to get what you long for most, when it's too late?

To have loved, to have been made happy thus, / What better fate has life in store for us?

I presume that it is the better part of wisdom that we bow to our fate with as good grace as possible.

I've noticed that even people who believe in fate look both ways before crossing the street.

There are people who recall my father as a saint and a monster. I'm quite sure I will share the same fate.

Sometimes there are historical moments when a country's course could be turned one way or the other, when fate can be escaped.

Nothing to impede progress. If you want to see the fate of democracies, look out the windows.

Concord's little arch does not span all our fate, nor is what transpires under it law for the universe.

It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.

Life is an adventure of our own design intersected by fate and a series of lucky and unlucky accidents.

The balance is the penalty of being human: the danger of allowing yourself to feel. For this we walk a narrow path high above rocky ground. On one side we have the descent into animalism, on the other a godhead delusion. Both pulling at us, both tempting. But without these forces tugging at your psyche, stirring it into conflict, you can never love. They awaken us, you see, these warring sides, they arouse our passion.

An adventure is a situation where the outcome is not entirely within your control. It is up to fate, in other words

The fate of war is to be exalted in the morning, and low enough at night! There is but one step from triumph to ruin.

My day is closed! the gloom of night is come! a hopeless darkness settles over my fate.

I wonder whether being a scientists daughter makes you so conflicted about free will and fate.

There is less pressure on abandoning native communities: what for? There is nothing to be gained by it. On one hand, there are plenty tempting opportunities of experimenting with identities - being one kind of person today and a different the next day. On the other hand, there is little pressure to include the ethnic identity or religious identity into this mechanism, because now everybody is in a kind of Diaspora today.

What people commonly call Fate is, as a general rule, nothing but their own stupid and foolish conduct.