652 quotes found
“The glorious light is sunshine.”
“Chaos exists only in the moment. But Fate knows all. Every action and reaction. Since everything is destined, nothing is random... Chaos is only an illusion.”
“All his life he has been in the shadow of Grandfather, and of the man for whom he was named."..."Then, Grandfather would tell us it has nothing to do with fame.He enjoyed the notoriety, though, sai...”
“Trusting fate, especial to resolve anything is a pure gamble.”
“Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to fill the roles given you by good people, by people who love you.”
“... and then beginning to go back to what you can't even remember.”
“I loved you without knowing it, and I looked for your memory.In empty houses I entered with a lantern to steal your portrait”
“As if you could pick in love, as if it were not a lightning bolt that splits your bones and leaves you staked out in the middle of the courtyard.”
“I guess it was what my friend Phoolendu at the yoga studio would call kismet. That's like fate, but much more dramatic.”
“Fate might forgive greed, or gluttony, or even bloodlust, but it never ignores being ignored.”
“It was a second. A blink. The flap of a bird's wing, the moment it takes to say hello, or goodbye. So quickly that it made me think of all the insignificant seconds that we throw away. And all the ...”
“When the time is ripe for certain things, these things appear in different places in the manner of violets coming to light in early spring.”
“I wish I could have shown you that engineheart- the system of pieces and parts that moved us forward, that moves us forward still. One day, a few weeks after my sons death, I took the bolt off the ...”
“In my experience, there never seems to be a man or woman who will walk in and literally sweep you off your feet, or away, when you're in the biggest distaster of your life. If it happens, it'll be ...”
“He felt, in a way so familiar as to be almost dreary, the chosen victim of the gods, the self-admitted traitor, the one destined for judgment.”
“No amount of worrying can change the future. Go easy on yourself, for the outcome of all affairs is determined by God's decree. If something is meant to go elsewhere, it will never come your way, b...”
“Fortune, that arrant whore,Ne'er turns the key to th'poor.”
“Im free, I think. I shut my eyes and think hard and deep about how free I am, but I cant really understand what it means. All I know is Im totally alone. All alone in an unfamiliar place, like some...”
“Trapped, cutting herself against the jagged edges of her emotions, she was a prisoner of her own spirit.”
“The word idiot comes from a Greek root meaning private person. Idiocy is the female defect: intent on their private lives, women follow their fate through a darkness deep as that cast by malformed ...”
