“Just let your hand drop; and let fate decide for you.”
Choke
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Chuck Palahniuk555
American novelist, essayist 1962Related quotes
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“IF YOU ever drop your keys into a river of molten lava, let 'em go, because man, they're gone.”
Jack Handey (1949) American comedian
Deeper Thoughts : All New, All Crispy (1993), Hachette Books, ISBN 1-56282-840-1
Miguel de Unamuno (1864–1936) 19th-20th century Spanish writer and philosopher
The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), XI : The Practical Problem
Context: More than a century ago, in 1804, in Letter XC of that series that constitutes the immense monody of his Obermann, Sénancour wrote the words which I have put at the head of this chapter — and of all the spiritual descendants of the patriarchal Rousseau, Sénancour was the most profound and intense; of all the men of heart and feeling that France has produced, not excluding Pascal, he was the most tragic. "Man is perishable. That may be; but let us perish resisting, and if it is nothingness that awaits us, do not let us so act that it shall be a just fate." Change this sentence from it negative to the positive form — "And if it is nothingness that awaits us, let us so act that it shall be an unjust fate" — and you get the firmest basis of action for the man who cannot or will not be a dogmatist.
“Their fate will be in each other's hands as they decide whether to share or to shaft.”
Robert Kilroy-Silk (1942) British politician
Shafted, 2001
Frequently shown as a running joke on Have I Got News For You
Alessandro Cagliostro (1743–1795) Italian occultist
Balsamo the Magician (or The Memoirs of a Physician) by Alex. Dumas (1891)
“Work but use your head as well as your hands, trust in God and He will never let you down.”
Timothy Quill (1901–1960) Early Dáil member, cooperative organiser, agriculturalist
The Cork Examiner (1955)