Tempting Fate Quotes

• 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.

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  Stephen Farrell

  Fate   Thinking   Would Be  

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.

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  Thomas E. Mann

  Fate   Needs   Reason  

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• 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.

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  Joan Juliet Buck

  Fate   Would Be   Way  

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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.

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  Douglas Coupland

  Fate   Feelings   One Day  

  Douglas Coupland (1993). “Shampoo Planet”, p.131, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm a little bit superstitious, and I think that just comes from playing hockey. I won't avoid the number thirteen. A big one for me, though, is walking under a ladder. I've always felt like that's tempting fate. That's just throwing it right in their face. Check me out. I just walked under a ladder. What are you going to do about it?

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  James Badge Dale

  Hockey   Fate   Thinking  

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

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  Margaret Atwood

  Fate   Romance   Luck  

  Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.270, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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