Top 1200 Tempting Fate Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Timing was everything when it came to being a woman—the moment you entered the world could seal your fate.

This has ever been the fate of energy in security; it takes to art and to eroticism, and then comes languor and decay.

Man may his fate foresee, but not prevent. 'Tis better to be fortunate than wise.

To sit back and let fate play its hand out and never influence it is not the way man was meant to operate.

But I also know that to ignore joy while it lasts, in favor of lamenting one's fate, is a great crime.

Injustice in this world is not something comparative; the wrong is deep, clear, and absolute in each private fate.

This is moral perfection: to live each day as though it were the last; to be tranquil, sincere, yet not indifferent to one's fate.

I am myself: a light. In me you find your fate. So be not blind to the truth shining from my glow.

I warn you, Eragon, beware of whom you fall in love with, for fate seems to have a morbid interest in our family.

Life is a huge farce, and the advantage of possessing a sense of humour is that it enables one to defy fate with mocking laughter.

And over your unconsecrated head you'll hear the howling wolves lament their fate and yours the livelong year.

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.

This day's black fate on more days doth depend; This but begins the woe, others must end.

Let's summon the courage to insist on a minimal level of civic knowledge for the citizens empowered to decide our fate.

Sometimes it seems that the fate of the world is decided entirely in the ether of electronic communications and corporate backroom deals.

The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.

Perhaps those, who, trembling most, maintain a dignity in their fate, are the bravest: resolution on reflection is real courage.

I have never been in a bad mood and near a beach ball at the same time. Causation? Correlation? Or fate?

Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations.

The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.

But if something was really important, fate made sure it somehow came back to you and gave you another chance.

The word 'fate' doesn't really mean much to me in some ways. I think we make our own.

It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe.

Whoever yields properly to Fate, is deemed Wise among men, and knows the laws of heaven.

If you're too happy about anything, fate usually gives you a good sock in the jaw and knocks you down.

I leave you, home, when I'm ripped from the doorstep by commerce or fate. Then I submit to the awful subway of the world.

The babe in arms is a channel through which the energies we call fate, love, and reason visibly stream.

Everywhere man is confronted with fate , with a chance of achieving something through his own suffering.

Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, roll darkly down the torrent of his fate.

I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go.

Three things characterize man: person, fate, merit--the harmony of these constitutes real grandeur.

History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

I remain unconvinced that anything other than rapid decomposition is the fate of my body and mind after death.

Images cluttered the pages, but one tattoo set her nerves on edge; inky black eyes surrounded by wings likes shadows coalescing. Mine. The thought, the need, the reaction was overpowering. Leslie looked up. "This one." she said. "I need this one. But the image is more than just tempting art, and it draws her into a world of shadows and desire- into the world of Faerie.

I do not know why it is the fate of the world always to want something different from what life gives them.

Fate, at first so amenable, so reasonable, so open to negotiation, ends up by exacting a cruel revenge for happiness.

No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation.

Lee was too cool by nature to rage at fate; his manner was to raise an eyebrow and greet it laconically.

I never hid my move to Real Madrid was almost done... my fate changed, and I arrived at Barcelona instead.

Fate being unfavorable( or without god's grace, even an easy task becomes difficult to accomplish)

NOT everyone in this world has the fate to cherish the fullest form of love. some are born ,just to experience the abbreviation of it.

I wanted to be an architect, fate took me to films. Now that I am into politics, I want to give my best here.

When you say yes to life, you attract divine guidance. When you're inspired, you're collaborating with fate. Everything starts working for you.

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

Fate whirls on the bark, and the rough gale sweeps from the rising tide the lazy calm of thought.

The covetous map explores the whole world in pursuit of a subsistence, and fate is close at his heels.

As an individual with my own hurts, I go into the Garden (Gethsemane) as often as I need to. There I identify with the pain in the other, with my part in that pain, my part in tempting someone to wound me. I experience the other's pain, and God's pain, and am devastated - because their pain becomes my own. Feeling such anguish, I can forgive, or deeply repent, either for myself or on behalf of the other.

A part of fate is the freedom of man. Forever wells up the impulse of choosing and acting in his soul.

I'm a believer in fate and in fulfilling your destiny. I've always had a kind of inner voice that I have learned to listen to.

When we decline to talk about what is real simply because it's uncomfortable to do so, we seal our own fate.

Even-handed fate Hath but one law for small and great: That ample urn holds all men's names.

Insight into universal nature provides an intellectual delight and sense of freedom that no blows of fate and no evil can destroy.

The parties are all trying to reinvent themselves. I believe this upheaval is destined to take the country's fate into a different direction.

What I have left is from my native spring; I've still a heart that swells, in scorn of fate, And lifts me to my banks.

Destiny and fate are of one’s own making, and riches and happiness are rarely found at the end of an easily-traversed path.

Fate always wins, for our own heart within us Imperiously furthers its designs.

The New Testament, they tell us, is founded upon the prophecies of the Old; if so, it must follow the fate of its foundation.

In that twisted incestuous way of fate, Mia's a part of our history, and we're among the shards of her legacy.

A prudent man will think more important what fate has conceded to him, than what it has denied.

Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time they have left.