“Fight if you wish. Deny what is before you if it comforts you. But nothing you do can change your fate.” IfsFightingWishFateComfortDeny Book:Inheritance: Book Four Source: Inheritance: Book Four
“It is often a comfort in misfortune to know our own fate. [Lat., Saepe calamitas solatium est nosse sortem suam.]” KnowsFateComfortMisfortunes Author:Quintus Curtius Rufus
“[M]ore than they wanted freedom, the Athenians wanted security. Yet they lost everything-security, comfort, and freedom. This was because they wanted not to give to society, but for society to give to them. The freedom they were seeking was freedom from responsibility. It is no wonder, then, that they ceased to be free. In the modern world, we should recall the Athenians' dire fate whenever we confront demands for increased state paternalism.” WorldGivingShouldStatesWantedLostResponsibilityWonderFateModernSecurityComfortDemandSeekingRecallsModern WorldLost EverythingAtheniansPaternalism Author:Margaret Thatcher
“The whole country needs to get to the bottom of what really happened with the Russian collusion allegations. But in the meantime, we have a president Donald Trump who himself says trust me. He does not accept the boundaries of law. He basically says that if anybody gets too close for comfort, I'm going to get rid of them. And as long as that's in place, we cannot afford as a country to put our fate in the hands of someone so whimsical and so unpredictable.” LongCountryPresidentAcceptingFateComfortBottomBoundariesUnpredictableTrust MeWhimsical Author:Laurence Tribe
“I admire addicts. In a world where everybody is waiting for some blind, random disaster or some sudden disease, the addict has the comfort of knowing what will most likely wait for him down the road. He's taken some control over his ultimate fate, and his addiction keeps the cause of his death from being a total surprise.” WorldCausesWaitingKnowingTakenFateComfortDiseaseUltimateBlindSurpriseAddictionDisasterAdmireAddictDown The RoadWait For HimHeroin Addiction Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“I am wholly yours - you are everything to me; we will sustain each other in all the ills of life it may please fate to inflict upon us; you will soothe my troubles; I will comfort you in yours.” MayFateTroubleComfortPlease Author:Denis Diderot
“Fate rules. You follow the steps and you plan and you work. Then fate slips in laughing and makes fools of us. Sometimes we can trick it or out guess it but most often its already written. For some its written in blood. That doesn't mean we stop, but it does mean we can't comfort ourselves with blame. It's easier to take the blame than to admit there was nothing you could do to stop whatever happened.” MeanDoeSometimesStepsLaughingFatePlansWrittenHappenedBloodFoolEasierComfortBlameTricksSlips Author:Nora Roberts