Top 1200 Tempting Fate Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

So the absurdity of happiness is that it is embarrassing to discuss or even mention, impossible to define or measure, may not be achievable at all - or, at best, only intermittently and unconsciously - and may even turn into its opposite if directly pursued, but that it frequently turns up unexpectedly in the course of pursuing something else. There is no tease more infuriating...It is tempting to forget the whole thing and simply fall back on the couch with a remote control in one hand and a beer in the other.

Will you be a reader, a student merely, or a seer? Read your fate, seewhat isbefore you, and walkon intofuturity.

In the beds which the piety of the public has prepared on every side, stricken men await the verdict of fate.

Fate destined me to play Fagin. It was the part of a lifetime, and I was the only actor to be in the stage production and in the film.

Politicians and journalists share the same fate in that they often understand tomorrow the things they talk about today.

Truth is the one thing in nature always consistent with itself, and it is the one guide given to us in steering on the ocean of fate.

Tenacious people don't rely on luck, fate, or destiny for their success. And when conditions become difficult, they keep working.

For we by conquest, of our soveraine might,And by eternall doome of Fate's decree,Have wonne the Empire of the Heavens bright.

The general public are not even aware of major decisions that will determine their fate, hence are in no position to influence them

If Europe does not return to the path of common sense, it will find itself laid low in a battle for its fate.

The idea that people should be allowed to decide something about their own fate is just anathema to European elites.

No one is so accursed by fate, no one so utterly desolate, but some heart though unknown responds unto his own.

Fame is fickle. If the media turn against me, I will just have more time in the library. Not bad as a fate.

Perform your long and heavy task with energy, treading the path to which Fate has been pleased to call you.

Sometimes, the fate of a film is not in your hands, and you can only take home some experiences and what you got to learn during the journey.

I don't know yet whether I fully believe in fate, but certain things do happen in a man's life that he cannot explain.

Fate," Blue replied, glowering at her mother, "is a very weighty word to throw around before breakfast.

Subtle and insubstantial, the expert leaves no trace; divinely mysterious, he is inaudible. Thus he is master of his enemy's fate.

Have any of our friends got off the Island with their families, or what must they submit to? Despotism or destruction, I fear, is their fate.

Have you ever had something happen to you that there was simply no explanation for? That you can't chalk up to a coincidence, or an accident, or even fate?

Tips for aspiring writers: don't be afraid of writing rubbish. It's very easy to become hypnotised by an empty page or screen. It's tempting to abandon a half-finished work because you can't make it perfect. I hereby give you permission to write things that aren't perfect, make mistakes, try things that don't work, experiment with styles you're not used to and generally throw words around. You'll learn much faster that way.

Therefore the love which us doth bind, But fate so enviously debars, Is the conjunction of the mind, And opposition of the stars.

It's just a freak of fate that I'm paid to write, not paying to print my own books - but I'd be doing it anyway: it's my life.

The ways of fate are indeed hard to understand. If there is not some compensation hereafter, then the world is a cruel jest.

Trouble is the next best thing to enjoyment; there is no fate in the world so horrible as to have no share in either its joys or sorrows.

The sun's rays don't bother me. No they cast down such a wonderful heat. Masking beauty, by a terrible fate.

We delude ourselves if we believe that skilled behavior is easy, that it can come about without effort. We forget the years of tuning, of learning and practice it takes to be skilled at even the most fundamental of human activities: eating, walking, talking, reading, and writing. It is tempting to want instant gratification - immediate expert performance and experiential pleasure - but the truth is that this primarily occurs only after considerable amounts of accretion and tuning.

Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.

Indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not.

We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.

Do we make ourselves into what we become or is it built into our genes, into the fate spun for us by whatever shapes events?

How unfair the fate which ordains that those who have the least should be always adding to the treasury of the wealthy.

Tears throw a veil over our faults and allow us to accuse fate without fear or contradiction.

It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.

I was born human. But this was an accident of fate - a condition merely of time and place. I believe it's something we have the power to change.

With these men and women who work-for the cause with all their hearts, with cool heads and skilled hands we will master every fate.

Until you have a child, it's very tempting to look at the state of the world and say, "To hell with it, in 50 years I won't be around anyway." But if you have a child you don't say that, because even if you're not around in 50 years, your children presumably will be, and maybe even their children. You think of yourself as responsible to future generations in a whole different way.

Solve the problem yourself or accept a fate you may not like... from this perspective, the ethic of personal responsibility gains appeal.

When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.

There is no fate... no predestination... no luck. Don't use that as an excuse to not live the life you want. Work for it. You make your future - no one else.

When I need a word and do not find it in French, I select it from other tongues, and the reader has either to understand or translate me. Such is my fate.

I've always had real trouble knowing what my actual desires and goals are. I've just been dragged along by fate.

I was horrified in high school by the fate of the hanged maids at the end of the Odyssey; it seemed unfair to me, even then.

Let the moment come when nothing is left but life, and you will find that you do not hesitate over the fate of material possessions.

The rude awakening I got was that this country can determine the fate of anyone by using propaganda on a public that is hungry for lies.

Dreadful is the mysterious power of fate; there is no deliverance from it by wealth or by war, by walled city or dark, seabeaten ships.

Homelessness is the actor's fate; physical incapacity to attain what is most required and desired by such a spirit as I am a slave to.

I think some things are just meant to happen; you can't change your fate. Maybe we have a small amount of control.

With chess it was almost this palpable electricity that I felt. You're totally in control of your own fate. There's no luck factor. It's you and the pieces.

Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph.

The whole army is burning with an insatiable desire to wreak violence upon South Carolina. I almost tremble for her fate.

But for a few twists of fate, the gasoline engine we know today might have just been a small footnote in history.

The fate of the Empire rests on this enterprise. Every man must devote himself totally to the task in hand.

Is Wall Street the rightful master of our economic fate? Or should we choose a broader form of sovereignty?

Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!

What's the good of having mastery over cosmic balance and knowing the secrets of fate if you can't blow something up?

We did not flinch but gave our lives to save Greece when her fate hung on a razor's edge.

I suppose that the great questions of "Fate, Freewill, Foreknowledge Absolute," which used to be discussed at Concord, are still unsettled.

Fortunate is he whose mind has the power to probe the causes of things and trample underfoot all terrors and inexorable fate.

the leader of armies is the arbiter of the people's fate, the man on whom it depends whether the nation shall be in peace or in peril.