It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.

The formula ‚Two and two make five‘ is not without its attractions.

Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It’s hard to keep awake with nothing to do.

You are doomed to make choices. This is life’s greatest paradox.

I think I have to trust that you end up with the person you’re supposed to end up with, and that everything in between is there to teach you stuff.

I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me.

I will not leave South Africa, nor will I surrender. Only through hardship, sacrifice and militant action can freedom be won. The struggle is my life. I will continue fighting for freedom until the end of my days.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

It’s the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

Normally, when someone we love is turning away from a struggle, we self-protect by also turning away. That’s definitely my first response. I think change is more likely to happen if both partners have common language and a shared lens to see problems.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

I wrote ‚Channel Orange‘ in two weeks. The end product wasn’t always that gritty, real-life depiction of the real struggle that happened.

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

My literature is much more the result of a paradox than that of an implacable logic, typical of police novels. The paradox is the tension that exists in my soul.

It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions.

Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in so far as he is allowed by the Great Power.

We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.

Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

I’m a hard guy to live with. I’m like a caged animal. I’m up all night walking around the living room. It’s hard for me to come down from what I do.

God wants to help us… He loves us… we are His children. But He will not force His help on us at any time. He sees us when we struggle and fight and complain our way through things. And I believe it breaks His heart, when all we have to do is ask Him for help.

What nourishes me also destroys me.

Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.

The unnatural, that too is natural.

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.

It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

I can’t do nothing just a little.

I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we’ve struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We’ve made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.

My folks ain’t graduated from high school or nothing like that, so we always had to struggle in the family – and I come from a big family.

There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.

As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.

Why am I here? I’m not lucky. That’s God.

Fate pulls you in different directions.

When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

I try to make it look easy, but the behind-the-scenes stuff is the challenge.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate… but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.

Don’t be a writer; it’s a terrible way to live your life. There’s nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it. But don’t expect anything from anybody.

The titanic effort that has brought liberation to South Africa, and ensured the total liberation of Africa, constitutes an act of redemption for the black people of the world.

The way up and the way down are one and the same.

All truth is simple… is that not doubly a lie?

It I talked about Watergate, I was described as struggling to free myself from the morass. If I did not talk about Watergate, I was accused of being out of touch with reality.

I bear a charmed life.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

Life is warfare.

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

I joyfully hasten to meet death. If it come before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic faculties, it will come, my hard fate notwithstanding, too soon, and I should probably wish it later – yet even then I shall be happy, for will it not deliver me from a state of endless suffering?

The truth is that the vast majority of Americans are good, fair, and just, and they want their country to reflect those ideals.

To hold a pen is to be at war.

There’ll always be serendipity involved in discovery.

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

All generalizations are false, including this one.

I was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother used to wash utensils and do lowly household work in the houses of others to earn a livelihood. I have seen poverty very closely. I have lived in poverty. As a child, my entire childhood was steeped in poverty.

My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.

I’ll never make it, it will never happen, because they’re never going to hear me ‚cause they’re screaming all the time.