Quotes About Defying Destiny

#1. Life is full of hazards, selection also occurs in life, Geralt. Misfortune, sicknesses and wars also select. Defying destiny may be just as hazardous as succumbing to it.

Andrzej Sapkowski

#2. The trick is to shift the emphasis in any meeting away from the source of an idea and onto the idea itself.

Ed Catmull

#3. What great faith our Lord Jesus Christ asks of us - and how just that is. Do we not owe him such faith? It looks impossible to us, but Jesus is Master of the impossible.

Charles De Foucauld

#4. I have a question to ask you." Beth stretched one arm across the back of the seat, hoping she looked provocative. "And what is that, husband?" Ian leaned down, his body hemming her in. His large fists rested on the seat back behind her. "Do I love you?

Jennifer Ashley

#5. I loved that book, but I don't like to influence people from giving their honest opinions about a book before I tell them how they should've felt. Did you like it?

Kasie West

#6. I'll be damned if I apologize for the choices I've made. They were hard decisions, but I had good reasons for making them.

Christine Feehan

#7. What we know about diets hasn't changed. It still makes sense to eat lots of fruits and vegetables, balance calories from other foods, and keep calories under control. That, however, does not make front-page news.

Marion Nestle

#8. In the case of Wilderpeople, I walked on the first day with some apprehension actually; because it doesn't come anywhere close to anything I've really played before, this part.

Sam Neill

#9. The central question driving literary aesthetics in the age of the iPad is no longer 'How should novels be?' but 'Why write novels at all?'

Garth Risk Hallberg

#10. Don't. This is the punishment I deserve for defying my fate. It'll be easier if I let go of the guilt and embrace my ineluctable destiny

Shaine Lake

#11. Some people are born to fit the times.

Sharyn McCrumb

#12. We know, we feel in our guts, that decisions are constantly being made which are going to wreck our ambitions, our dreams, our personal relationships. But the people making those decisions are keeping them secret, because if they don't they'll lose the leverage they have over their subordinates.

John Brunner

#13. If from morning to night we just took care of one thing after another, thoroughly and completely and without accompanying thoughts, such as "I'm a good person for doing this" or "Isn't it wonderful, that I can take care of everything?," then that would be sufficient.

Charlotte Joko Beck

#14. Sincerity: if you can fake it, you've got it made.

Daniel Schorr