Befalling Quotes

#1. The province of philosophy is not so much to prevent calamities befalling as to demonstrate that they are blessings when they have taken place.

Ernest Bramah

#2. It can never be, sir; it does not sound likely. Human beings never enjoy complete happiness in this world. I was not born for a different destiny to the rest of my species: To imagine such a lot befalling me is a fairy tale - a day-dream.

Charlotte Bronte

#3. Wasn't so much that I didn't have faith in my team, but that I maintained the truest fans always reverted to a doomsday position in the same way that parents always worried about tragedy befalling their children.

Emily Giffin

#4. Like any mum, I fear some mysterious illness befalling my children.

Cate Blanchett

#5. Human beings never enjoy complete happiness in this world. I was not born for a different destiny to the rest of my species: to imagine such a lot befalling me is a fairy tale
a daydream."
"Which I can and will realise. I shall begin today.

Charlotte Bronte

#6. He'd told his son recently that life was luck. But life, he'd come to realize as he aged, was also memory. The recollection of moments often proved richer than the moment themselves.

Dennis Lehane

#7. I don't like it but I have to like it.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#8. Would you condemn me to such a cavernous, empty life, Miranda?

Dominique Eastwick

#9. Nobody does anything better than me in baseball (said before the 1971 World Series).

Roberto Clemente

#10. Towards four o'clock, the rebels felt strong enough to take the offensive. A brigade with a battery under Earle managed to strike the Federal right on the flank and rear and throw it into utter confusion, which spread rapidly along the whole front. Now came the disastrous end.

Henry Villard