Quotes About Tempting Fate

#1. I'm scared that if I collaborated on something with somebody, I would be in some way losing my own contact with what I was going and tempting fate.

Joan Juliet Buck

#2. As you grow older, it becomes harder to feel 100 percent happy; you learn all the things that can go wrong, you become superstitious about tempting fate, about bringing disaster upon your life by accidentally feeling too good one day.

Douglas Coupland

#3. Neither of us says the word love, not once. It would be tempting fate; it would be romance, bad luck.

Margaret Atwood

#4. I think it would be slightly perverse to continue tempting fate by going back to the same places and doing the same sort of thing.

Stephen Farrell

#5. Nothing grieves me so much as that I cannot live constantly to God's glory.

Jonathan Edwards

#6. One thing that really appeals to me is this idea of music being a living thing that has an evolution that, in a way, enables the artist to sell a process rather than a piece of product.

Peter Gabriel

#7. I tended to be drawn to the weirder, darker stuff. Horror and sci-fi anthologies.

Karen Russell

#8. Had laws not been, we never had been blam'd; For not to know we sinn'd is innocence.

William Davenant

#9. To see beauty, you have to love.

Debasish Mridha

#10. I believe in workers' rights when people are doing a good job.

John Caudwell

#11. We shall perish
along the path of Love.
Fate will trample us. Yeah, tempting
young woman, get up and give me your lips
before I return to dust.

Omar Khayyam

#12. True freedom comes only from true wisdom.

Debasish Mridha

#13. If you think fate is fickle, try tempting it

S. Spencer Baker

#14. It is tempting to pretend that minorities on death row share a fate in no way connected to our own, that our treatment of them sounds no echoes beyond the chambers in which they die. Such an illusion is ultimately corrosive, for the reverberations of injustice are not so easily confined.

William J. Brennan

#15. I had accepted that all the dark memories were mine. But I had never realized that the beautiful ones were mine too. I had a right to them. And the right to embrace them, regardless of what happened before and after. I had a right to my happiness, as well as my grief.

Linda Olsson

#16. In today's world, you would call my father mostly unaccessible. I'm not sure that isn't true of most fathers at that time. He went through the Depression. I don't know what that would have done to my psyche.

Bob Newhart

#17. Nothing seems to tempt fate more than mentioning the possibility of something bad happening.

Donald G. Firesmith

#18. The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought.

Havelock Ellis

#19. The best way to guarantee a steady stream of new ideas is to make sure that each person in your organization is as different as possible from the others. Under these conditions, and only these conditions, will people maintain varied perspectives and demonstrate their knowledge in different ways.

Nicholas Negroponte

#20. Muslims have never been and never can be so base as to expect any solutions to their problems through terror.

Fethullah Gulen