Fateful Quotes

#1. The way he shook his hips up there on that stage, but before that fateful day when he left Tennessee all of them were calling him the King.

Tim McGraw

#2. He'd visited Thel in New York countless times, including that fateful night last New Year's Eve when he'd started to have the wrong thoughts - the ones that were recorded by the nans and reported to his wife - reported to everyone.

David Simpson

#3. The most fateful change that unfolded during the past three decades was not an increase in greed. It was the expansion of markets, and of market values, into spheres of life where they don't belong.

Michael Sandel

#4. What provokes me worst of all are our fateful bourgeois distinctions of rank. Of course I know as well as anyone that differences of class are necessary, and that they work greatly to my own advantage: but I wish they would not place obstacles in my way when I might enjoy a little pleasure ...

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#5. We have decided that we are not inconvenienced by inconvenience. The needs of children come up unexpectedly. We are sure that the Good Samaritan had other plans that fateful day.

Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

#6. Those fateful words We are now at war with Germany, and for several hours felt strangely numb. She tried to phone Pamela

Kate Atkinson

#7. I'm going to Washington on a fateful, even historic, mission. I feel that I am an emissary of all Israel's citizens, even those who do not agree with me, and of the entire Jewish people

Samantha Power

#8. All you need is one golden apple - a single apple that somebody else wants - and you have control. (Fateful Night, Book One of What She Knew Trilogy)

K.R. Hughes

#9. The unpredictability inherent in human affairs is due largely to the fact that the by-products of a human process are more fateful than the product.

Eric Hoffer

#10. When a decision is made to go to war based on intelligence, it is a fateful decision. It has ramifications and impacts way beyond the current months and years.

Carl Levin

#11. As we reflect back upon the tragic loss of Challenger and her brave crew of heroes who were aboard that fateful day, I am reminded that they truly represented the best of us, as they climbed aloft on a plume of propellant gasses, reaching for the stars, to inspire us who were Earthbound.

Buzz Aldrin

#12. "a fatal and perhaps fateful error of judgment" " ... this was the last chance for the United Nations to get a grip on themselves and apply the principles of their Charter"

Alec Douglas-Home

#13. TIME
Time
goes round and round
the spinning clock,
until the fateful day
time
folds it's tired hands
and
stops.

Carolee Dean

#14. All my writings may be considered tasks imposed from within, their source was a fateful compulsion. What I wrote were things that assailed me from within myself. I permitted the spirit that moved me to speak out.

Carl Jung

#15. Perhaps it's true you can't go back in time, but you can return to the scene of a love, of a crime, of happiness, and of a fateful decision; the places are what remain, are what you can possess, are what is immortal.

Eric Weiner

#16. We are almost men, not quite warriors, and on some fateful day we meet an enemy for the first time and we hear the chants of battle, the threatening clash of blades on shields, and we begin to learn that the poets are wrong and that the proud songs lie.

Bernard Cornwell

#17. We're star crossed, Shakespeare. Fateful star-crossed lovers. We have a lifetime to get to know each other, unlike our namesakes. I'll makes sure we get our happily ever after.

Tillie Cole

#18. It is fateful and ironic how the lie we need in order to live dooms us to a life that is never really ours.

Ernest Becker

#19. The fallout caused by denial was inherited by later generations of Armenians, linking them to the fateful days of 1915, and compelling them to set the record straight.

Michael Bobelian

#20. War has generally had grave and fateful consequences for the American monetary and financial system. We have seen that the Revolutionary War occasioned a mass of depreciated fiat paper, worthless Continentals, a huge public debt, and the beginnings of central banking in the Bank of North America.

Murray Rothbard

#21. This was her destiny, and it was a fit and proper one. She was not unwilling, but she knew this was a fateful moment, and she had a sense of doors closing behind her and the path of her life being fixed irrevocably.

Ken Follett

#22. Most of us manage the fateful things that happen in our lives the best we can, certainly not to a Stalin-like 20-year plan.

Jo Brand

#23. As long as humankind recklessly proceeds in the fateful delusion of being biologically fated for triumph, nothing essential will change.

Peter Wessel Zapffe

#24. With the exception of Hunter West, who's been my own personal porn since that fateful night Mom's Porsche broke down, I don't find that many men attractive. Maybe I am a lesbian, but I don't think so.

Ella James

#25. I am convinced, however, that in a certain magic and fateful way Lolita began with Annabel.

Vladimir Nabokov

#26. O fateful flower beside the rill- The Daffodil, the daffodil!

Jean Ingelow

#27. What about fateful turns in your life? Naturalists like Thomas Hardy proposed that some people are simply born under 'a blighted star' like his heroine in Tess of the D'Urbervilles. If so, then no matter what we did, we couldn't improve our lives.

Roger Leslie

#28. But I fired four shots more into the inert body, on which they left no visible trace. And each successive shot was another loud, fateful rap on the door of my undoing.

Albert Camus

#29. Consequently, any boy who appeared at such a time was bound to carry a certain weight, a sort of saving grace, a fateful gravity.

Trebor Healey

#30. The self is our life's goal, for it is the completest expression of that fateful combination we call individuality.

Carl Jung

#31. I (God) will leave man to make the fateful guess, Will leave him torn between the no and yes, Leave him unresting till he rests in me, Drawn upward by the choice that makes him free, Leave him in tragic loneliness to choose, With all in life to win or all to lose.

Edwin Markham

#32. This isn't the first time I've faced death, and I don't intend for it to be the last," I said, repeating the same words he'd told me before fighting in that fateful duel. "I've chosen to live a dangerous life, but it's who I am, and that wouldn't change even if we'd never met.

Jeaniene Frost

#33. The line between good and evil does not lie between "us" and "them," between the West and the rest, between Left and Right, between rich and poor. That fateful line runs down the middle of each of us, every human society, every individual.

N. T. Wright

#34. We all have such fateful objects
it may be a recurrent landscape in one case, a number in another
carefully chosen by the gods to attract events of specific significance for us: here shall John always stumble; there shall Jane's heart always break.

Vladimir Nabokov

#35. Was it not a comedy, a strange and stupid matter, this repetition, this running around in a fateful circle?

Hermann Hesse

#36. True twins share womb chemistry and endure many fateful slings and arrows together. The fabled connection between twins is true in my case.

Gregory Benford

#37. Fateful encounters with a cruel world reveal our character. No human is immune from heartbreaking loss. Regardless of our socioeconomic status, eventually everybody shall suffer a grievous personal loss, a body blow that inflicts pain of inexpressible magnitude.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#38. Though his father had told him stories about it happening, until that fateful afternoon, Gavin Blake had believed that love at first site didn't exist.

Gail McHugh

#39. The fateful equating of power with violence, of the political with government, and of government with a necessary evil has begun.

Hannah Arendt

#40. When I started dating I had this kind of Romeo and Juliet, fateful romantic idea about love which was almost that you were a victim and there was a lot of pain involved and that was how it should be.

Emma Watson

#41. Good is good and bad is bad, and nowhere is the difference between good and bad so wide and so fateful as in human character. For character makes destiny in the individual and in the race.

Edward O. Sisson

#42. I got to thinking one day about all those women on the Titanic who passed up dessert at dinner that fateful night ...

Erma Bombeck

#43. We carry within ourselves the direction our lives will take. Within ourselves burn the timeless, fateful stars.

Antal Szerb

#44. Buzz Lukens took that fateful step ...

Dan Quayle

#45. Unlike literary characters, our future is mostly shaped by small, trivial choices - seemingly insignificant, but deceptively fateful.

Guillermo Erades

#46. It was depressing; I don't know why I didn't just leave it and go to bed. Perhaps I hoped that by simply staying awake I could somehow hold the world as it was: keep it in that dark, rain-filled moment, and stop the fateful day from coming.

Paul Murray

#47. My brother Hayden's friendship with James Webber
would be the catalyst for a fateful and accidental
meeting between me and the future Soham killer Ian
Huntley.

Stephen Richards

#48. Did Muddy Waters play an acoustic? Well of course he did. But did he turn his back on being able to plug it in and play louder? No, he plugged in and turned it up and got miles and miles ahead of the game in one fateful act of just plugging in.

Billy Gibbons

#49. His point, of course, is that it is easy to make any banal situation seem extraordinary if you treat it as fateful. So

Bill Bryson

#50. Fateful moments tend to evoke grandeur of speech, especially in French.

Barbara Tuchman

#51. The right way to wholeness is made up of fateful detours and wrong turnings.

Carl Jung

#52. Under certain circumstances the fateful decisions in life, sometimes even in matters of life and death, are made with an almost indifferent ease. While the little things-for instance, the way people hang on to what is over-seem so important.

Peter Hoeg

#53. A brave girl! And a unique one. The best that I have ever met in my life.

Olga Goa

#54. If you were three times poor, I would still have paid attention to you and fell head over heels in love with you.

Olga Goa

#55. I need only you, Milano, not your money.

Olga Goa

#56. I think the word 'pleasure' is unknown to you. More precisely, its practical meaning.

Olga Goa

#57. I cannot believe that you're still a girl. Your kisses don't seem that innocent. They are driving me crazy.

Olga Goa

#58. If your parents left you, it doesn't mean that other people will also do it to you.

Olga Goa

#59. You're very naive and innocent, and don't understand a lot of things yet.

Olga Goa

#60. You are like a narcotic plant.

Olga Goa

#61. And you haven't got a 'pause' button, have you? You are just uncontrollable!

Olga Goa

#62. Scusi mia bella*, but it runs in the blood of all Italians to be skillful lovers. So you have to get used to this.

Olga Goa

#63. The words of men cannot be trusted, especially men like you!

Olga Goa

#64. If you go on touching me, I'll catch fire before your eyes.

Olga Goa

#65. Sometimes, you don't get what you want the most ... At other times, you're just lucky.

Sanhita Baruah

#66. Stop smiling as if I've been acquainted with you for ages!

Olga Goa

#67. It's just like in a Brazilian serial! Destiny has brought us together.

Olga Goa

#68. I'm giving pleasure to you. Don't interfere.

Olga Goa

#69. You can't push me away, mio cuore. You can't!

Olga Goa

#70. Don't be shy, dear. I'm too old for you to be embarrassed by me.

Olga Goa

#71. I don't want you to leave. I want you to stay.

Olga Goa

#72. I swear I won't touch you even with a finger until you ask me yourself.

Olga Goa

#73. I'm afraid that if we move on to such topics, I won't be able to let you go safe and sound.

Olga Goa

#74. Forget everything that surrounds you. Think that there's just you and me in this wide world.

Olga Goa