

‘Did they realize too, that their fates were inextricably fixed to the outcome of that day's actions?’.‘While their paths diverged after 1990, their fates are entwined again this season.’.‘Men controlled the fates of women, whose expected aim in life was to marry well.’.‘And from time to time, nature and fate conspire to bring a mortal down.’.‘She was about to send off an application to drama school when fate intervened.’.‘He will live on for as long as the world remains daft and cruel fate chooses to mock us all.’.‘Kane understood the power of fate, and the inevitability of consequence.’.‘They forge a relationship based on their common sense of helplessness in the face of the overwhelming power of fate.’.‘By an ironic twist of fate, each of the four sides in the hat must face up to a derby match on the deciding Saturday.’.‘Yet in a pathetic twist of fate, John's final act was the ultimate percentage play.’.‘But, in a somewhat cruel twist of fate, you will also not remember to go out and buy it.’.‘Sadly, in a cruel twist of fate, he was killed in a car accident just a few months later, aged just 21.’.‘Then in a twist of fate her eye's are raised, they meet mine and I can feel all my insides turn to jelly.’.‘It was a simple twist of fate that introduced him to the chartered accountancy profession.’.


We have been selfish, sister, in urging our visit at such hazard.Extract from : « In the Midst of Alarms » by Robert Barr.He was a selfish man, and wanted the glory of the day to be all his own.Extract from : « The Bacillus of Beauty » by Harriet Stark.Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart.He had raised the boy wrong-he had taught him to be selfish.Extract from : « The Roof of France » by Matilda Betham-Edwards.We could at least enjoy the selfish satisfaction of faring better than our neighbours.Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald.But the feelings of Cornelius in no case deserved consideration-they were so selfish.Extract from : « Life and Death of Harriett Frean » by May Sinclair.She had no affection for this selfish invalid, this weak, peevish bully.Extract from : « United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches » by Various.It is a spirit contracted in its views, selfish in its objects.Extract from : « Malbone » by Thomas Wentworth Higginson.It ain't a selfish feeling, so I know there's some good in it.
