Tempting Fate Quotes

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

  Margaret Atwood

  Fate, Romance, Luck

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

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

  Thomas E. Mann

  Fate, Needs, Reason

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• 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.

  Stephen Farrell

  Fate, Thinking, Would Be

  Source: www.pbs.org

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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.

  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?

  James Badge Dale

  Hockey, Fate, Thinking

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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.

  Joan Juliet Buck

  Fate, Would Be, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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