kismet

• “Whoever came up with the term kismet is an absolute moron.”

  Fictionaut: Leox

• “That evening, the feeling returned -- what I called kismet yesterday.”

  Archive 2005-06-01

• “Thaddeus, the only thing messing with your kismet is your denial of what you truly want.”

  Simon & Schuster: Sin in Soul's Kitchen

• “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.”

  Simon & Schuster: Wake Up, Sir!

• “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.”

  Mr. Isaacs

• “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”

  Mr. Isaacs

• “We should hang out, clink our highball glasses, and salute the kind of kismet that competent women often need to create real achievement.”

  The Huffington Post: Ann Handley: Sarah and Me: Junior High with Sarah Palin

• “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.”

  Newsweek: Thanks for the Memories, Brett

• “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.”

  The Perils of Cultural Absolutism

• “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! ‎”

  The Perils of Cultural Absolutism

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