Kismet

Whoever came up with the term kismet is an absolute moron. ❋ Unknown (2010)

That evening, the feeling returned -- what I called kismet yesterday. ❋ Douglas Hoffman (2005)

Thaddeus, the only thing messing with your kismet is your denial of what you truly want. ❋ Andrew Oye (2009)

Ever since I read The Magic Mountain, sanitariums not rehabs! have had a romantic draw for me, and, too, it was appealing, after all, to have a firm destination, to not rely entirely on kismet, which isn't always so reliable, this being one of the drawbacks of kismet. ❋ Jonathan Ames (2004)

Yet because you are so wayward I will help you once or twice more, and then I will leave you to your own course -- which you, in your blindness, will call your kismet, not seeing that your fate is continually in your own hands -- more so at this moment than ever before. ❋ Unknown (1881)

The stars, or the fates or Kâli, or whatever you like to term your kismet, your portion of good and evil, allotted me a somewhat happier existence than generally falls to the share of young slaves in ❋ Unknown (1881)

We should hang out, clink our highball glasses, and salute the kind of kismet that competent women often need to create real achievement. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It is that kind of kismet that sometimes determines whether careers are made or broken: the right quarterback with the right coach in the right system. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I asked him if the notion of "kismet" ‎ or "fate" helped his patients in London; not at all, he said, and he never even broached ‎ the subject to his patients, so counter-productive would it be. ❋ Unknown (2007)

On the other hand, when he ‎ was a psychiatrist in Bangladesh, he routinely used to appeal to the notion of "kismet" to ‎ assuage the individual's feelings of guilt: some things are just beyond our control, ‎ whether westerners admit it or not! ‎ ❋ Unknown (2007)

Had Dr. Islam clung to cultural absolutism, he would have treated his English patients to ‎ equal doses of "kismet" as he did his compatriots: he would, then, have been ineffective ‎ in London, and ineffective in Bangladesh had he clung to the opposite set of values: "I ‎ am the captain of my soul". ❋ Unknown (2007)

I just keep saying "kismet" fate and that seems to satisfy them for a while. ❋ David Sheern (2005)

No! the family's going down fast; and it's pity when these old Saxon houses vanish off the land; but it is "kismet" with the Hamleys. ❋ Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (1837)

Soon, however, over-the-air sniffers, such as kismet and airsnort, allowed attackers to capture and decode data transmitted via WiFi. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Although I do believe it took kismet for my work to get any credibility, it's important that I express how hard I labored over this novel. ❋ Unknown (2010)