Best fate & firsts Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“If you can stand to wait 24 hours before you decide the fate of what you have written - either good or bad - you're more likely to see that invisible thing that is invisible for the first few days in any new writing. We just can't know what all is in a sentence until there are several sentences to follow it. Pages of writing need more pages in order to be known, chapters need more chapters.”

Ifs Knows Needs Writing Firsts Order Waiting Hours Known Fate Written Pages Sentences Invisible Chapters Invisible Things

Author:Lynda Barry

“Stern fate and time Will have their victims; and the best die first, Leaving the bad still strong, though past their prime, To curse the hopeless world they ever curs'd Vaunting vile deeds, and vainest of the worst.”

World Firsts Stills Past Dies Strong Fate Worst Victim Leaving Deeds Curse Hopeless Prime

Book:Selected Poetry of Ebenezer Elliott

Source: Selected Poetry of Ebenezer Elliott

“At the age of five years to enter a spinning-cotton or other factory, and from that time forth to sit there daily, first ten, then twelve, and ultimately fourteen hours, performing the same mechanical labour, is to purchase dearly the satisfaction of drawing breath. But this is the fate of millions, and that of millions more is analogous to it.”

Years Firsts Age Hours Millions Five Fate Ten Breaths Satisfaction Drawing Performing Five Years Labour Factories Twelve Spinning Fourteen Cotton

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“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.”

Source: The Power of Coincidence: How Life Shows Us What We Need to Know

“The more serious poetry of the race has a philosophical structure of thought. It contains beliefs and conceptions in regard to the nature of man and the universe, God and the soul, fate and providence, suffering, evil and destiny. Great poetry always has, like the higher religion, a metaphysical content. It deals with the same august issues, experiences and conceptions as metaphysics or first philosophy.”

Source: The Field of Philosophy: An Outline of Lectures on Introduction to Philosophy

“The source of each accordant strain Lies deeper than the Poet's brain. First from the people's heart must spring The passions which he learns to sing; They are the wind, the harp is he, To voice their fitful melody,-- The language of their varying fate, Their pride, grief, love, ambition, hate,-- The talisman which holds inwrought The touchstone of the listener's thought; That penetrates each vain disguise, And brings his secret to his eyes.”

Source: The Poems

“Beyond work and love, I would add two other ingredients that give meaning to life. First, to fulfill whatever talents we are born with. However blessed we are by fate with different abilities and strengths, we should try to develop them to the fullest, rather than allow them to atrophy and decay. ... Second, we should try to leave the world a better place than when we entered it.”

“By an irony of fate, my first employment was as a draughtsman. I hated drawing; it was for me the very worst of annoyances. Fortunately, it was not long before I secured the position I sought, that of chief electrician to the telephone company.”

Firsts Long Company Fate Worst Position Drawing Employment Chiefs Hated Irony Telephones Secured Annoyance Electrician

Author:Nikola Tesla

“I owe a quenchless debt to him who bade me seize my fate And hang it on the faith that I to it was adequate For when he said -you're on your own- and sauntered on away I knew that here, in four short words, was youth-s first judgment day Not wit to learn, not test of skill, not pride to satisfy, But will to walk down life in faith that life is theirs who try.”

Trying Firsts Said Life Is Walks Four Fate Youth Pride Skills Judgment Tests Debt Wit Aviation Adequate Judgment Day Short Words

Author:Gill Robb Wilson

“I sing of arms and of a man: his fate had made him fugitive: he was the first to journey from the coasts of Troy as far as Italy and the Lavinian shores Across the lands and waters he was battered beneath the violence of the high ones for the savage Juno's unforgetting anger.”

Men Firsts Made Water Fate Violence Journey Land Arms Shore Savages Coast Fugitive Battered Land And Water

Book:The Aeneid of Virgil: A Verse Translation

Source: The Aeneid of Virgil: A Verse Translation

“...And these vicissitudes come best in youth; For when they happen at a riper age, People are apt to blame the Fates, forsooth, And wonder Providence is not more sage. Adversity is the first path to truth: He who hath proved war, storm, or woman's rage, Whether his winters be eighteen or eighty, Has won experience which is deem'd so weighty.”

People Firsts War Happens Truth Age Wonder Path Fate Youth Adversity Blame Winter Storm Rage Providence Sage Eighty Eighteen Vicissitudes

Book:DON JUAN

Source: DON JUAN

“One should not search for an abstract meaning of life ... Life can be made meaningful in a threefold way: first, through what we give to life ... second, by what we take from the world ... third, through the stand we take toward a fate we no longer can change.”

World Way Giving Should Firsts Made Fate Thirds Meaningful Abstract Meaning Of Life

Author:Viktor E. Frankl

“It is evident that youth is the first victim of the trend toward bureaucratization. The young men are deprived of any opportunity to shape their own fate.”

Men Firsts Young Opportunity Fate Youth Shapes Victim Young Man Trends Evident Deprived

Book:Bureaucracy: The Economist

Source: Bureaucracy: The Economist

“To serve thy generation, this thy fate: "Written in water," swiftly fades thy name; But he who loves his kind does, first and late, A work too late for fame.”

Firsts Kind Doe Names Water Fate Written Generations Fame Late Too Late Fades

Author:Mary C. Ames

“The fate of a song is often established in the first 15 minutes of writing.”

Writing Firsts Song Fate Minutes

Author:Jens Lekman

“I always loved to gamble. I never got close to a horse. Fate dealt me a terrible blow when it gave me a good horse the first time out. I thought how easy this is. Now I love being around them.”

Firsts Easy Fate Terrible First Time Horse Blow Gamble Good Horse

Author:Jack Klugman

“The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off.”

Firsts Nations Felt Fate Birth Rate Bounds Empires Reproduction Decadence Birth Rate

Author:Benito Mussolini

“The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.”

Men Firsts Political Fate Revolution Lessons Revolutionary Doomed Black Panther Party

Book:Revolutionary Suicide: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: Revolutionary Suicide: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“In his first 100 days, Mr. Obama has put the fate of his presidency in the hands of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. He may come to regret that decision.”

Firsts May Hands House Decision Leader Fate Regret Majority Senate Speakers Presidency Nancy Majority Leader

Author:Karl Rove

“Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations.”

Firsts Nations Nature Fate Apartment Exile Miraculous Impotence

Book:The Satanic Verses

Source: The Satanic Verses

“since feeling is first who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you; wholly to be a fool while Spring is in the world my blood approves, and kisses are a far better fate than wisdom lady i swear by all flowers. Don't cry --the best gesture of my brain is less than your eyelids' flutter which says we are for eachother: then laugh, leaning back in my arms for life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis”

Thinking World Firsts Feelings Pay Attention Brain Laughing Fate Blood Cry Flower Arms Fool Kissing Spring Gestures Swear Paragraph Eyelids Syntax Parentheses Leaning Back

Author:e. e. cummings

“I am an American, Chicago born – Chicago, that somber city – and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted; sometimes an innocent knock, sometimes a not so innocent. But a man's character is his fate, says Heraclitus, and in the end there isn't any way to disguise the nature of the knocks by acoustical work on the door or gloving the knuckles.”

Men Way Firsts Ends Sometimes Character Born My Own Cities Records Fate Doors Style Taught Innocent Chicago Disguise Knuckles Somber

Author:Saul Bellow

“In the first place, you shouldn't believe in promises. The world is full of them: the promises of riches, of eternal salvation, of infinite love. Some people think they can promise anything, others accept whatever seems to guarantee better days ahead, as, I suspect is your case. Those who make promises they don't keep end up powerless and frustrated, and exactly the fate awaits those who believe promises.”

Source: The Devil and Miss Prym: A Novel of Temptation

“Fate, at first so amenable, so reasonable, so open to negotiation, ends up by exacting a cruel revenge for happiness.”

Firsts Ends Fate Revenge Reasonable Negotiation Amenable

Book:The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel

Source: The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel

“And now my old dog is dead, and another I had after him, and my parents are dead, and that first world, that old house, is sold and lost, and the books I gathered there lost, or sold- but more books bought, and in another place, board by board and stone by stone, like a house, a true life built, and all because I was steadfast about one or two things: loving foxes, and poems, the blank piece of paper, and my own energy- and mostly the shimmering shoulders of the world that shrug carelessly over the fate of any individual that they may, the better, keep the Niles and Amazons flowing.”

World Firsts May Two Book House Individual Energy Lost Parent My Own Pieces Fate Dog Paper Built Stones Shoulders Boards Two Things Blank Foxes Steadfast True Life Old Dog Old Houses

Book:Upstream: Selected Essays

Source: Upstream: Selected Essays

“Like fanning through a deck of cards, my mind flashes on the thousand chances, trivial to profound, that converged to re-create this place. Any arbitrary turning along the way and I would be elsewhere; I would be different. Where did the expression "a place in the sun" first come from? My rational thought process cling always to the idea of free will, random event; my blood, however, streams easily along a current of fate.”

“...This is the first time I have met someone who seeks out people and who sees beyond. [...] We never look beyond our assumptions and, what's worse, we have given up trying to meet others; we just meet ourselves. We don't recognize each other because other people have become our permanent mirrors. If we actually realized this, if we were to become aware of the fact that we are alone in the wilderness, we would go crazy. [...] As for me, I implore fate to give me the chance to see beyond myself and truly meet someone.”

People Ifs Giving Trying Firsts Looks Facts Given Chance Fate Crazy Mets First Time Give Me Mirrors Permanent Assumption Wilderness Given Up

Author:Muriel Barbery

“Gods play games with the fates of men. But first they have to get all the pieces on the board and look all over the place for the dice.”

Men Firsts Looks Play Games Pieces Fate Boards Dice

Book:Soul Music: (Discworld Novel 16)

Source: Soul Music: (Discworld Novel 16)

“Men plan. Fate Laughs. Guis Alera, First Lord”

Men Firsts Lord Laughing Fate Plans

Author:Jim Butcher

“Just his luck he was related to this grubby old dude. He hoped all sons of Neptune didn't share the same fate. First, you start carrying a man satchel. Next thing you know, you're running around in a bathrobe and pink bunny slippers, chasing chickens with a weed whacker.”

Knows Men Firsts Running Next Fate Share Son Luck Related Chickens Weed Chasing Bunnies Slippers Neptune Son Of Neptune

Author:Rick Riordan

“Hey Nana, do you remember the first time we met? I beleive in things like fate. So I think it was fate.”

Thinking Firsts Remember Fate Mets First Time Hey First Time We Met

Author:Ai Yazawa

“I. At Tea THE kettle descants in a cosy drone, And the young wife looks in her husband's face, And then in her guest's, and shows in her own Her sense that she fills an envied place; And the visiting lady is all abloom, And says there was never so sweet a room. And the happy young housewife does not know That the woman beside her was his first choice, Till the fates ordained it could not be so.... Betraying nothing in look or voice The guest sits smiling and sips her tea, And he throws her a stray glance yearningly.”

Knows Firsts Looks Doe Shows Faces Young Choices Voice Rooms Wife Fate Sweet Husband Tea Guests Betray Glances Visiting Housewife Drones Envied Kettles Cosy Young Wife

Book:Hardy: Selected Poems

Source: Hardy: Selected Poems

“The best consolation in misfortune or affliction of any kind will be the thought of other people who are in a still worse plight than yourself; and this is a form of consolation open to every one. But what an awful fate this means for mankind as a whole! We are like lambs in a field, disporting themselves under the eye of the butcher, who chooses out first one and then another for his prey.”

People Firsts Kind Mean Stills Whole Eye Form Fate Mankind Fields Awful Misfortunes Pessimism Affliction Consolation Prey Lambs Butchers Plight

Book:Studies in Pessimism

Source: Studies in Pessimism

“And when [Bëor] lay dead, of no wound or grief, but stricken by age, the Eldar saw for the first time the swift waning of the life of Men, and the death of weariness which they knew not in themselves; and they grieved greatly for the loss of their friends. But Bëor at the last had relinquished his life willingly and passed in peace; and the Eldar wondered much at the strange fate of Men, for in all their lore there was no account of it, and its end was hidden from them.”

Men Firsts Ends Age Lasts Loss Grief Saws Fate Strange First Time Accounts Lays Wounds Weariness

Book:The Silmarillion

Source: The Silmarillion

“Percy and Reyna occupied matching praeters' chairs on the dais, which made Percy self-conscious. It wasn't easy looking dignified wearing a bedsheet and a purple cape. "The camp is safe," Octavian continued. " I'll be the first to congragulate our heroes for bringing back the legion's eagle and so much Imperial gold! Truly we have been blessed with good fortune. But why do more? Why tempt fate?" "I'm glad you asked." Percy stood, taking the question as an opening. Octavian stammered, " I wasn't--" "--Part of the quest," Percy said. "Yes I know. And your'e wise to let me explain, since I was.”

“fate is strange.. almost no one i know married the first love of their lives. but for those who did are always telling me that they missed soemthing important, that they didn’t experience all that they might have.." - by the river piedra i sat down and wept”

Knows Firsts Important Might Fate Strange Married Rivers Down And Sat First Love

Author:Paulo Coelho

“Let never man be bold enough to say, Thus, and no farther shall my passion stray: The first crime, past, compels us into more, And guilt grows fate, that was but choice, before.”

Men Life Firsts Enough Past Choices Passion Grows Fate Crime Guilt My Passion

Book:The Dramatic Works of Aaron Hill, Esq

Source: The Dramatic Works of Aaron Hill, Esq

“I personally feel it is presumptuous to believe that man can determine the whole temporal structure of the universe, its evolution, development and ultimate fate from the first nanosecond of creation to the last 10^10 years, on the basis of three or four facts which are not very accurately known and are disputed among the experts.”

Men Feels Years Firsts Believe Whole Facts Lasts Science Universe Three Known Four Fate Creation Development Evolution Ultimate Bases Structure Determine Experts Presumptuous

Author:John N. Bahcall

“In the first instance, therefore, global terrorism created a kind of global community sharing a common fate, something we had previously considered impossible.”

Firsts Kind Community Common Fate Impossible Terrorism Instance Insomnia Global Community

Author:Ulrich Beck

“One person can make all the difference in the world. For the first time in recorded human history, we have the fate of the whole planet in our hands.”

World Firsts Humans Persons Whole Hands Differences Environment Fate Planets First Time Environmental Human History Taking Action Eco Friendly

Author:Chrissie Hynde

“Each person decides in early childhood how he will live and how he will die... His trivial behavior may be decided by reason, but his important decisions have already been made: what kind of person he will marry, how many children he will have, what kind of bed he will die in... It is incredible to think, at first, that man's fate, all his nobility and all his degradation, is decided by a child no more than six years old, and usually three... (but) it is very easy to believe by looking at what is happening in the world today, and what happened yesterday, and seeing what will happen tomorrow.”

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