652 quotes found
“Who am I to say that these things might nit be forever? Who is Peter Van Houten to assert as fact the conjecture that our labor is temporary?”
“Lately, I've become sort of a fatalist. Well, that was bound to happen.”
“The boy was beginning to understand that intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life, where the histories of all people are connected, and we are able to k...”
“The fate of all things cherished and expensive, to be lost at hazard, and well before their time”
“Harm is the norm. Doom should not jam.”
“Human Prejudice is Dark Fate's favourite friend”
“I spent the afternoon musing on Life. If you come to think of it, what a queer thing Life is! So unlike anything else, don't you know, if you see what I mean. At any moment you may be strolling pea...”
“When an orphan is depressed," wrote Wilbur Larch, "he is attracted to telling lies. A lie is at least a vigorous enterprise, it keeps you on your toes by making you suddenly responsible for what ha...”
“You know," she murmured, "we're all heading straight to hell.""Yes," said Masako, giving her a bleak look. "It's like riding downhill with no brakes.""You mean, there's no way to stop?" "No, you st...”
“Tis Fate that flings the dice,And as she flingsOf kings makes peasants,And of peasants kings.”
“Strange how reluctant I was to acknowledge that control of my fate lay beyond my own conscious will. Habit of a lifetime, I suppose.”
“This is just your unwritten life. You didnt expect it, it just happened.”
“What once was had, forever lost; thy fate is destined, thy love star-crossed.”
“To be a Russian writer at the end of the nineteenth century must have meant bearing an inescapably bitter fate. The more they tried to escape from Russia, the more deeply Russia swallowed them.”
“Such sentences always end in silence, no matter how they may begin--indeed, this is the very essence of fate: that which we never quite manage to say.”
“History warns us ... that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.”
“When I get this feeling, this compulsion, I always do what it tells me. I can't explain where it comes from or how I get it, and it doesn't happen very often. But I obey it. And this afternoon I ha...”
“The control of information makes history.”
“There is no shortage of fault to be found amidst our stars.”
“I have brought you a heros fate, and a heros fate is never happy. It is never anything but tragic.”
