Cheating Fate Quotes

#1. Yes," Elene said, missing or deciding to miss the sarcasm. "Kylar thinks ... Kylar fears that he's a man born to be forever alone. He thinks the last couple of months has been him cheating fate. He's not a man born to be alone, Vi, but some lies take a long time to heal.

Brent Weeks

#2. And that luck was only fate's cheating, giving an illusion of power. But that illusion lingered, and I became restless. I decided to act, to challenge fate. (...) I gained courage; every afternoon I walked a little farther. And one day I got there.

V.S. Naipaul

#3. Microsoft has had clear competitors in the past. It's a good thing we have museums to document that.

Bill Gates

#4. Confidence, the sexiest thing I put on in the morning.

Miranda Kerr

#5. It was almost as if he'd been a ghost in all those rooms, all those days, a ghost in his own life.

Cynthia Voigt

#6. If Kindle is upgraded with face recognition and biometric sensors, it can know what made you laugh, what made you sad and what made you angry. Soon, books will read you while you are reading them.

Yuval Noah Harari

#7. But most important of all, the truth, that dangerous stuff, became beautiful and more precious.

John Steinbeck

#8. Agony sometimes changes
form
but
it never ceases for
anybody.

Charles Bukowski

#9. Mace, I don't need you to save me. I just need you fighting beside me.

Kate Ormand

#10. The last Hague Conference has in the meantime expressed its opinion that a body should be established which could prepare for the work involved more effectively than has hitherto proved possible.

Fredrik Bajer

#11. And no cheating, Lady." he said.
"But who could cheat Fate?" she asked. He shrugged."No-one. Yet everyone tries.

Terry Pratchett

#12. Harvard has now de facto become a Chinese outpost.

Thorsten J. Pattberg

#13. Mowrer and his family made it safely to Tokyo. His wife, Lillian, recalled her great sorrow at having to leave Berlin. "Nowhere have I had such lovely friends as in Germany," she wrote. "Looking back on it all is like seeing someone you love go mad - and do horrible things.

Erik Larson

#14. Unseen in the background, Fate was quietly slipping lead into the boxing-glove.

P.G. Wodehouse