Irony Of Fate Quotes

#1. To me it is the irony of fate," she said. "The way they come here. Those moths could fly anywhere. Yet they keep hanging around the windows of this house.

Carson McCullers

#2. 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.

Nikola Tesla

#3. What a cruel irony of fate, to pair together, like Siamese twins united by the shoulders, scientific adversaries of such contrasting character!

Santiago Ramon Y Cajal

#4. It would be the irony of fate if my administration had to deal chiefly with foreign affairs.

Woodrow Wilson

#5. No Republican could expect to win the GOP nod after betraying his party's rank and file.

Grover Norquist

#6. I'm always most interested in writing about things that I don't understand.

Kevin Powers

#7. A breeze blew through the room, blew curtains in at one end and out the other like pale flags, twisting them up towards the frosted wedding-cake of the ceiling, and then rippled over the wine-coloured rug, making a shadow on it as wind does on the sea.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#8. Irony is Fate's most common figure of speech.

Trevanian

#9. I am not writing in metaphors. I am writing about catastrophes.

Aharon Appelfeld

#10. What a fucking destiny is that... or fate or whaatever is it?
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COme on isn't it kinda of life irony seeing the girl with which I should conversation.,.. but the problem is that I can't... not because I don't want... but I can't...

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It's just difficult!

Deyth Banger

#11. The first things to study are form and values. For me, these are the things that are the basics of what is serious in art.

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

#12. Trapped. Sinking. Can't be myself. Made into what other people expect. Is that everyone's fate? Were the great individualists the products of their friends who wanted a great individualist as a friend?

Michael Moorcock

#13. Somewhere fate laughs in her far-off country, because now I am the human and it is Grace I will lose again and again, immer wieder, always the same, every winter, losing more of her each year, unless I find a cure.

Maggie Stiefvater

#14. The irony of life is a twisted game; but my god you learn fast, the ins and outs of how to play your part the best you can.

Nikki Rowe

#15. I never used to believe in fate. I used to think you make your own life and then you call it fate. That's why I call it irony.

Gene Wilder

#16. Even though the realms of religion and science in themselves are clearly marked off from each other, nevertheless there exist between the two strong reciprocal relationships and dependencies.

Albert Einstein

#17. The irony of man's fate reflected in his image: that all men, from beggar to emperor, from harlot to queen, from ragged clerk to Pope, must come to this. No matter what their poverty or power in life, all is vanity, equalized by death.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#18. Oh the irony life sometimes throws our way. It's almost like fate plays a sadistic joke on us just because she's in a mood that day - fickle bitch that she is.

Suzanne Steele

#19. Fate is a fickle bitch who dotes on irony. The Black Company pg 447

Glen Cook

#20. I was always told you're not going to make much money from writing. You can actually do it. Now I've built a really good, big house out of words.

Catherine Jinks