“I may be deemed superstitious, and even egotistical, in regarding this event as a special interposition of divine Providence in my favor. But I should be false to the earliest sentiments of my soul, if I suppressed the opinion. I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridic…”— Frederick Douglass, amazon.com
“With all my wiry power and strength, I am prone at times to bodily sufferings, connected chiefly with the digestive organs, of no common degree or king. I do not regret the sufferings and peculiarities of my physical constitution. They have taught me, and continue to teach me, that which I think not…”— Ada Lovelace, en.wikiquote.org
“I am Providence, & Providence is myself—together, indissolubly as one, we stand thro’ the ages; a fixt monument set aeternally in the shadow of Durfee’s ice-clad peak!”— H. P. Lovecraft, hplovecraft.com
“Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform.”— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com
“I think you did a little more than that. You took the only thing that mattered to me. So I'm going to take the only thing that matters to you. Your life. [takes out a matchbook with a four-leaf clover on the cover and puts it on the table between them] Honoré de Balzac once said, 'Most people of act…”— Rick Dunkle, Ian Doyle, Timothy V Murphy, imdb.com