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

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

topic: Fate, Romance, Luck, Tempting Fate

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

- Thomas E. Mann

topic: Tempting Fate, Human Reason

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

topic: Fate, Thinking, Would Be, Tempting Fate

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

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

topic: Fate, Feelings, One Day, Tempting Fate

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

topic: Fate, Hockey, Thinking, Thirteen, One For Me

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

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Fate, Would Be, Way, Tempting Fate