"The Orientals have another word for accident; it is "kismet,"--fate."

-- Thomas B. Macaulay

#Fate Quotes #Kismet Quotes #Accidents Quotes

“The experiences associated with death were seen as visits to important dimensions of reality that deserved to be experienced, studied, and carefully mapped.”
“I'm no longer accepting the things I cannot change...I'm changing the things I cannot accept.”
“Crimson flames tied through my ears Rollin' high and mighty traps Pounced with fire on flaming roads Using ideas as my maps "We'll meet on edges, soon," said I Proud 'neath heated brow. Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now. Half-wracked prejudice leaped forth "Rip down all hate," I screamed Lies that life is black and white Spoke from my skull. I dreamed Romantic facts of musketeers Foundationed deep, somehow. Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.”
“If a woman decides she likes me, it would behoove her to take into consideration that my art has had a strong influence on the type of person I am.”

Source : "Wesley Snipes: The Wisdom of Wesley". Interview with Lawrence Grobel, movieline.com. August 1, 1998.
“Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self. [] If man puts his honor first in relying upon himself, knowing himself and applying himself, this in self-reliance, self-assertion, and freedom, he then strives to rid himself of the ignorance which makes a strange impenetrable object a barrier and a hindrance to his self-knowledge.”
“People in debt become hopeless and hopeless people donâ€™t vote.Â They always say that that everyone should vote but I think that if the poor in Britain or the United States turned out and voted for people that represented their interests there would be a real democratic revolution.”

Source : "Sicko". Documentary, Drama, 2007.
“Mickey Mouse... is always there-he's part of my life. That really is something not everyone can call their claim to fame.”
“If you were falling in love and you could go back in time and relive a day and see the banal things you did that you'd forgotten about, you'd weep, looking at that day,”

Source : "The Extraordinary, Ordinary Life Of Alexander Payne". Interview with Susan Stamberg, www.npr.org. February 24, 2012.

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