Quotes About Fate And Friendship

#1. Fate makes us family. choice makes us friends.

Mary Anne Radmacher

#2. The turn of a sentence has decided the fate of many a friendship, and, for aught that we know, the fate of many a kingdom.

Jeremy Bentham

#3. I couldn't call our friendship fate, but it was bigger than anything I'd know before

Kiera Cass

#4. With the world's fate resting on your shoulder - you're gonna need someone on your side.
You can't do it by yourself any longer - you're gonna need someone on your side.

Morrissey

#5. I don't believe for a minute-that we wouldn't have become friends somehow-that an unexploded bomb wouldn't have gone off and blown us both into the same crater, or that God himself wouldn't have come along and knocked our heads together in a flash of green sunlight. But it wouldn't have been likely.

Elizabeth Wein

#6. Be careful in your relations with those in power; they draw you close or allow you to approach them only when they need you. They are your friends when your friendship is useful to them and affords them pleasure, but they forget you when you are in trouble.
Elie Wiesel quoting Rabban Gamliel

Elie Wiesel

#7. We only want that which is given naturally to all peoples of the world, to be masters of our own fate, not of others, and in cooperation and friendship with others.

Golda Meir

#8. I'd had a little feeling of destiny. Because, you see, what I mean about affinities is true from friendships down to even the accidental glance at someone on the street-there's always a definite reason somewhere. I think even the poets would agree with me.

Patricia Highsmith

#9. To think that we might easily have gone through life not knowing each other, missing all this free flow of love and ideas and warmth and sharing ... We share really almost everything. (Avis DeVoto to Julia Child)

Joan Reardon

#10. A thing that many young fellows don't seem to realism at first is that success depends on oneself and not on a kindly fate, nor on the interest of powerful friends.

Robert Baden-Powell

#11. We need practice to get good at what we do. There is one difference in medicine, though: it is people we practice upon.

Atul Gawande

#12. I don't think you can reach your potential as a writer unless you're a passionate reader, AND read passionately.

Michelle D. Kwasney

#13. I would like to be able to do as many of my own stunts where I can.

Joel Kinnaman

#14. People meet when they need to meet.

Paulo Coelho

#15. Perhaps fate has a way of turning things around and making something good out of the action of someone who failed humanity without meaning to.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#16. People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame - and only one - themselves.

Robert Collier

#17. New York is strange in the summer. Life goes on as usual but it's not, it's like everyone is just pretending, as if everyone has been cast as the star in a movie about their life, so they're one step removed from it. And then in September it all gets normal again.

Peter Cameron

#18. Rockefeller viewed his philanthropy through the lens of his business, and it really mirrored the Industrial Revolution. It was highly centralized, it was top down, it was based on experts, and it was big-picture.

Jacqueline Novogratz

#19. There are people that bring artists to me to look at it and it's a question of whether I like their music and their look and if I think there's something they have that makes them different and commercial.

Kenneth Edmonds

#20. A friendship like theirs was hard to come by, and when such a thing is found, it is often even harder to hold on to.
But, as so few come to learn, absence does indeed make the heart grow fonder.

Ross Turner

#21. Karass: A group of people linked in a cosmically significant manner, even when superficial linkages are not evident

Tommy Wallach

#22. To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Deepak Chopra

#23. I worked the drive-through at McDonald's and tried out different accents - Italian, Russian, Irish.

James Franco

#24. Fate chooses your relations,
you choose your friends.

Jacques Delille