Top 1200 Twist Of Fate Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

The press, when they get a hold of something, they twist things.

You can't twist Al Sharpton's arm.

Ecology's implications for capitalism are too momentous for the capitalist to contemplate. The plutocrats are more wedded to their wealth than to the Earth upon which they live, more concerned with the fate of their fortunes than with the fate of humanity. The present ecological crisis has been created by the few at the expense of the many.

When it comes to dating, Im straightforward and traditional with a twist.

The gist of the Twist is chiefly in the hips

I've never found it helpful to treat fate with a gentle hand. Everytime I've stroked, hopin' fer a favor, she's slapped me hand and laughed at me. If ye want something, take fate by the throat and shake it out o' her.

Returning to the source is stillness. It is returning to one's fate. Returning to one's fate is eternal.

No experience has been too unimportant, and the smallest event unfolds like a fate, and fate itself is like a wonderful, wide fabric in which every thread is guided by an infinitely tender hand and laid alongside another thread and is held and supported by a hundred others

In discourse more sweet; For eloquence the soul, song charms the sense. Others apart sat on a hill retir'd, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fix'd fate, free-will, foreknowledge absolute; And found no end, in wand'ring mazes lost.

A knowledge of history as detailed as possible is essential if we are to comprehend the present and be prepared for the future. Fate...is not the blind superstition or helplessness that waits stupidly for what may happen. Fate is unalterable only in the sense that given a cause, a certain result must follow, but no cause is inevitable in itself, and man can shape his world if he does not resign himself to ignorance.

Fate forces its way to the powerful and violent. With subservient obedience it will assume for years dependency on one individual:Caesar, Alexander, Napoleon, because it loves the elemental human being who grows to resemble it, the intangible element. Sometimes, and these are the most astonishing moments in world history, the thread of fate falls into the hands of a complete nobody but only for a twitching minute.

Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you - it’s born with us the day that we are born.

It's become very popular in contemporary films to have the twist ending.

'Legacies' is its own show, and it takes on a younger twist to the supernatural world.

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

Wouldn't that put a twist in your toga?

We twist our souls around each other’s miseries.

So the fact that there's someone who's planning what happens to the characters, writing it down, means that the characters always have a fate. And when we think about fate, we tend think of it as the thing we would have if we were literary characters, that is, if there were somebody out there, writing us.

I try to take the foundations of what music is and add some type of twist to it.

Presumably there is indeed no purpose in the ultimate fate of the cosmos, but do any of us really tie our life's hopes to the ultimate fate of the cosmos anyway? Of course we don't; not if we are sane. Our lives are ruled by all sorts of closer, warmer, human ambitions and perceptions.

Dreams can twist your emotions like no reality can.

When you have kids, things come at you that you don't expect and you twist and turn to sort it out.

Everything is nothing, with a twist.

No nation can say, 'We will capitulate to tyranny rather than accept a speculative fate - to accept an absolute fate in alternative to a speculative one' - no nation can do that.

You don't have to twist my arm to work.

Let man only approach his own self with a deep respect, even reverence for all that the creative soul, the God-mystery within us, puts forth. Then we shall all be sound and free. Lewdness is hateful because it impairs our integrity and our proud being. The creative, spontaneous soul sends forth its promptings of desire and aspiration in us. These promptings are our true fate, which is our business to fulfill. A fate dictated from outside, from theory or from circumstance, is a false fate.

I like wearing classic pieces with a modern twist.

What I really like to do is just do the twist!

Spiral minds are harder to twist.

I think when I was younger I was not very good at writing love songs that didn't have a twist.

Twist my Body like the Exorcist.

Oliver Twist has asked for more!

There are indications because of new inventions, that 10, 15, or 20 nations will have a nuclear capacity, including Red China, by the end of the Presidential office in 1964. This is extremely serious. I think the fate not only of our own civilization, but I think the fate of world and the future of the human race, is involved in preventing a nuclear war.

Social media is an influence but with my own twist!

When it comes to dating, I'm straightforward and traditional with a twist.

I'm definitely partial to the "Twin Twist." I've always found that to be really fun.

If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it.

Total oblivion is the fate of almost everything in this world. I'm very likely to suffer that same fate; my work will probably not be remembered, and if any of it is, if any of those novels is fated to be one of those novels that is still being read 50 or 100 years after it was written, I've probably already written it.

As long as there is a new twist in the storyline, there cannot be any space for monotony.

History was made the day Chubby Checker went on 'Bandstand' with 'The Twist.'

Eclectic yet classic with a playful bohemian twist is how I'd describe my style.

The difference between a helping hand and an outstretched palm is a twist of the wrist.

Don't get your panties in such a twist... and give me back mine.

Some people say that you should not tempt fate and for them I cannot disagree, but I never learned anything from playing it safe. I say fate should not tempt me.

i fear no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true) and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you here is the deepest secret nobody knows

Among the humble and great alike, those who achieve success do so not because fate and circumstance are especially kind to them. Often the reverse is true. They succeed because they do not whine over their fate but take whatever has been given to them and go on to make the most of their best.

The moons of Uranus seem to have got a twist.

If by fate anyone means the will or power of God, let him keep his meaning but mend his language; for fate commonly means a necessary process which will have its way apart from the will of God and men.

Marvel always make it fresh so you can give it your personal twist.

I had been thinking about how greatness always has a hand from luck or fate. That no one ever achieves anything with their will alone. The luck or fate that helped us, amongst many others, was that my sister happened to know these two heavy metal kids David Navarro and Stephen Perkins.

There's something I find very satisfying about a nice ironic twist.

I was obsessed with Chubby Checker and old dances, like the twist.

I'm mixing country with kind of a modern twist to it.

I have a great sense of humor, but it has an ironic twist to it.

When I write, I tend to twist my hair. Something for my small mind to do, I guess.

Chiromancy is a stupidity! No man's fate is ever written on nowhere! In this universe, all the roads are our fate; all the stones and all the flowers are waiting for us! All the pages and all the days of the future are empty! On the roads to future, no one has footprints; we create them through walking!

The fate of the singers who, like my songs, went up in flame was also the fate of the books which I later wrote. All of them went up in flame to Heaven in a fire which broke out one night at my home in Bad Homburg as I lay ill in a hospital.

I'm trying to keep my cooking approachable and accessible but with a little fun twist.

The twist makes it a no-floater summer!

Fate often allows a future to take shape with no regard for our expectation, plan, or readiness. Fate's skillful editing of our life choices is like the careful grooming of lads on their first day of school: combed, polished, scrubbed, newly dressed, and glowing too. This is how we become ready for our life lessons.