Mischance Quotes

#1. Anne could do no more; but her heart prophesied some mischance to damp the perfection of her felicity.

Jane Austen

#2. Although the season is joyful everywhere, / And mountain and valley are all verdant, / That would seem a truly small matter to him / Who has met mischance in love ...

Hadewijch

#3. One person's actions can alter the course of history, and a political or military mischance can touch off a catastrophic reaction that has repercussions over centuries.

Timothy Venning

#4. Great were the lamentation and the cry when the news of this mischance was noised about the city. Such a tumult of mourning was never before heard, for the whole city was moved.

Marie De France

#5. The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Aristotle.

#6. Yield not thy neck To fortune's yoke, but let thy dauntless mind Still ride in triumph over all mischance.

William Shakespeare

#7. I shall always be consistent and never change my ways so long as I am in my senses; but for the sake of precedent the Senate should beware of binding itself to support the acts of any man, since he might through some mischance suffer a change.

Tiberius

#8. Who doubting tyranny, and fainting under Fortune's false lottery, desperately run To death, for dread of death; that soul's most stout, That, bearing all mischance, dares last it out.

Francis Beaumont

#9. Intemperance is naturally punished with diseases; rashness, with mischance; injustice; with violence of enemies; pride, with ruin; cowardice, with oppression; and rebellion, with slaughter.

Thomas Hobbes

#10. We call comeliness a mischance in the first respect, which belongs principally to the face.

Michel De Montaigne

#11. In Jamaica, the music is recorded for the sound system, not the iPod. It's about experiencing music together, with other people.

Michael Franti

#12. If Nixon is not forced to turn over tapes of his conversations with the ring of men who were conversing on their violations of the law, then liberty will soon be dead in this nation.

Earl Warren

#13. Why did people insist on starting journeys before the sun got warm? It couldn't be healthy.

Patrick W. Carr

#14. When the light of the star which flows into my eyes as a drop of gold first pierced the darkness in space, there was not a single eye on earth looking at the sky ...

Nazim Hikmet

#15. People believe in you more after you've won an Oscar, but it's up to you what choices you make.

Rachel Weisz

#16. This country can no longer afford to choose our leaders from a talent pool limited by sex, race, money, powerful fathers and paper degrees. It's time to take equal pride in breaking all the barriers.

Gloria Steinem

#17. You can't make a difference until you dare to be different.

Orrin Woodward