"It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active."

John Philpot Curran, Irish Public Servant

Fate, Rights

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"My dear doctor, I am surprised to hear you say that I am coughing very badly, as I have been practising all night."

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"When I can't talk sense, I talk metaphor."

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"Maybe when we face a tragedy, someone, somewhere is preventing a bigger tragedy from happening."

Kamand Kojouri, Iranian Poet

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"Since Alice had never received any religious instruction, and since she had led a blameless life, she never thought of her awful luck as being anything but accidents in a very busy place. Good for her."

Kurt Vonnegut, American Author

Fate, Luck, Religion, Life, Innocence

"Come in, Bean." Come in Julian Delphiki, longed-for child of good and loving parents. Come in, kidnapped child, hostage of fate. Come and talk to the Fates, who are playing such clever little games with your life."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

Fate, Childhood, Destiny, Hope

"If we really exist merely to fulfill God's plan: then life is a television drama; with God being the scriptwriter, the director, and, the audience."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Fate, Faith, Truth, Wisdom, Life

"How do you choose your paths? Who says you do? Sometimes the path chooses you."

Toni Sorenson, American Author

Fate, Choice, Path, Decision

"In all seriousness, Archer claims that if you, as a living, alive person, hear the song "You're the One That I Want" from the musical Grease three times in a single day - seemingly by accident, whether in an elevator, on a radio, a telephone hold button, or whatever - it indicates that you'll surely die before sunset."

Chuck Palahniuk, American Novelist

Fate, Death, Superstition, Life

"Everything is happening according to the 'drawing' [past causes], You just have to 'see' them. Desires are 'drawings' too."

Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

Fate, Truth, Wisdom, Power, Life

"Somewhere fate laughs in her far-off country, because now I am the human and it is Grace I will lose again and again, immer wieder, always the same, every winter, losing more of her each year, unless I find a cure."

Maggie Stiefvater, American Author

Fate, Loss, Love, Winter

"O that a man might knowThe end of this day's business ere it come!But it sufficeth that the day will endAnd then the end is known."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Fate, Wisdom, Truth, Life, Power

"Dolorita Hunsickle says that the chipmunks tell your fortune if you catch them but I never did. She says a chipmunk told her she would grow up to be a famous ballerina and that she would die of consumption unloved in a boardinghouse in Prague."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Fate, Fortune, Childhood, Dream

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"In this administration, a place can be found for every bad man."

"The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance."

"His smile is like the silver plate on a coffin."

"Assassinate me you may; intimidate me you cannot."

"Evil prospers when good men do nothing."

"My dear doctor, I am surprised to hear you say that I am coughing very badly, as I have been practising all night."

"When I can't talk sense, I talk metaphor."

"It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active."

Exlpore more Fate quotes

"Maybe when we face a tragedy, someone, somewhere is preventing a bigger tragedy from happening."

"Since Alice had never received any religious instruction, and since she had led a blameless life, she never thought of her awful luck as being anything but accidents in a very busy place. Good for her."

"Come in, Bean." Come in Julian Delphiki, longed-for child of good and loving parents. Come in, kidnapped child, hostage of fate. Come and talk to the Fates, who are playing such clever little games with your life."

"If we really exist merely to fulfill God's plan: then life is a television drama; with God being the scriptwriter, the director, and, the audience."

"How do you choose your paths? Who says you do? Sometimes the path chooses you."

"Everything is happening according to the 'drawing' [past causes], You just have to 'see' them. Desires are 'drawings' too."

"Somewhere fate laughs in her far-off country, because now I am the human and it is Grace I will lose again and again, immer wieder, always the same, every winter, losing more of her each year, unless I find a cure."

"O that a man might knowThe end of this day's business ere it come!But it sufficeth that the day will endAnd then the end is known."

"Dolorita Hunsickle says that the chipmunks tell your fortune if you catch them but I never did. She says a chipmunk told her she would grow up to be a famous ballerina and that she would die of consumption unloved in a boardinghouse in Prague."