James Shirley Quotes

There is no armor against fate.

James Shirley

Fate

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In the first instance, therefore, global terrorism created a kind of global community sharing a common fate, something we had previously considered impossible.

Ulrich Beck
I don't want to put my fate in country music fans; I'm too stubborn.

Natalie Maines
- Music
- Country
- Fate
People know more about baseball players' contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our children's lives in twenty years. Think about it. People used to say, the whole time I was growing up, 'Do you want to bring a child into this world?' That's pretty dire.

Jackson Browne
- People
- Up
- Time
When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.

Dale Carnegie
- You
- Hands
- Fate
I'd been kind of a hiccup in my parents' lives. They lost track of me and I didn't know what I was going to do with myself. And then fate reached in and took me in its hands. I was discovered right out of high school and started getting work.

Sally Field
- Work
- School
- High
To me, it was a sad fate to have been born into a period and a world where everything was in tip-top order, and the only real excitement was to be found in history books and occasionally also in the paper.

Hans Jonas
- World
- Real
- History