James Thurber Quotes

What goes up must come down.

In the fabric of human events, one thing leads to another. Every mistake is in a sense the product of all the mistakes that have gone before it, from which fact it derives a sort of cosmic forgiveness; and at the same time every mistake is in a sense the determinant of all the mistakes of the future, from which it derives a sort of cosmic unforgivableness.

What people commonly call fate is mostly their own stupidity.

Is Fate getting what you deserve, or deserving what you get?

Destiny is the result of all your actions and the impressions that you have taken in.

Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.

Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.

Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly.

Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.

Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.

The great weight of the ship may indeed prevent her from acquiring her greatest velocity; but when she has attained it, she will advance by her own intrinsic motion, without gaining any new degree of velocity, or lessening what she has acquired.

He is accelerating all the time. That last lap was run in 64 seconds and the one before in 62.

People don't slip. Time catches up with them.

Our affairs are attached to the destiny decreed by Allah, even our best plans may lead us to destruction.

How we have dreamt of this event [September 11, 2001], how all the world without exception dreamt of this event, for no one can avoid dreaming of the destruction of a power that has become hegemonic …. It is they who acted but we who wanted the deed.

I screwed up my life. I screwed up my kids' lives.

Things can move so fast that you don't have time to catch your breath or think about the next move.

The lighter the car, the faster it goes.

Everything in my life happens really fast.

Being part of something that's growing fast is better than being part of something that isn't growing fast because opportunities are essentially everywhere, and you're not competing for something.

Every power draws its ultimate consequences at every moment.

Fate is gonna find you in your glass of champagne.

We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, never to be undone.

The grave will fall in upon him who digs it.

A fate is not a punishment.