But that is why you don't want to tempt fate.
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Am I a moron to tempt fate a second time?
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Why tempt fate if fate itself gives you a sign, a hint?
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But there's also something primal that often leads people to tempt fate.
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Sure, I think she would be all right driving home, but why tempt fate?
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That would tempt fate, and probably ensure that we'd get our just deserts next time.
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I was so grateful that Janak had survived, but I could not tempt fate again.
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When you know you'll be around people who can push your buttons, it's safer not to tempt fate.
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Its combination of nostalgia, reverie and tragedy reminds us why we tempt fate to luxuriate in life's fleeting, unexpected moments.
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He signed on but was resolved not to tempt fate a fourth time: He jumped ship in New York City.
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But how's this for a new way to tempt fate: What if you replaced the elastic cord with two magnets?
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Hopefully he does not tempt fate and just simply retires on the spot after spiking that football for the 69th time.
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Asked whether he was confident he would be starting and finishing on Sunday, the 35-year-old was unwilling to tempt fate.
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Then again, given the survival rate of direwolves, we don't think Sansa would want to tempt fate any more than she already has.
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England continues to tempt fate in the back, with passes that arrive jusssst a bit late, or go jussssst a bit off target.
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I hope I can give my customer what she wants and you know, I don't want to tempt fate, let's hope the best!
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Declaring a personal privacy interest in something isn't exactly the same as saying you're the dude, but Ulbricht apparently decided not to tempt fate.
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There's no way I'm going to tempt fate (and the law) and fly a bulky Inspire or Phantom hundreds of feet in the air.
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To take it any further, as the authors may hope, would be to tempt fate — and also to undermine the modesty of the material.
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Besides, as someone who filed her taxes and signed a lease during this retrograde, I can tell you firsthand — it's kind of fun to tempt fate.
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With most of a century of human history under our belts since then, we have a more finely developed sense of when not to tempt fate.
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Ross: Don't tempt fate, Frank; there are nadirs as yet unplumbed, and it's always possible that we'll plumb them before we meet again in two weeks.
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On Soccer A victory at Leicester extended its advantage atop the Premier League, but the team's players and fans are reluctant to tempt fate this time.
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The Americans did not tempt fate the way they did in their opener, and instead sat back and absorbed the Costa Rican pressure, waiting for a break.
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But they decided not to tempt fate: "I did not try to approach the trailer and see if any of the inputs would change (but I bet not)."
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They made the decision for whatever reason – money, fame, love of the sport – to tempt fate by exchanging whirling blows with men and women determined to hurt them.
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You may find yourself itching to ditch work, but Saturn retrograde begins on April 29, asking us whether we've been responsible—so don't tempt fate if you're slacking off.
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Still, Volvo doesn't want to tempt fate by giving hot-headed or aggro drivers any reason to single out their test cars rom the crowd, and that's probably for the best.
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Gray pitched well to escape a bases-loaded, no-out jam in the fourth, but Boone was not about to tempt fate again when Gray found himself in a similar spot in the fifth.
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But I do, now, carry my passport and another form of ID with me when I leave the house, as if this were Eastern Europe in the buildup to World War II. Why tempt fate?
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The question was batted aside smartly by team boss Toto Wolff after Sunday's Spanish Grand Prix brought a fifth successive one-two, the best ever start to a season, but nobody likes to tempt fate.
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Despite not wanting to tempt fate, Williams added she did not want to repeat last year's memories of the U.S. Open, tacitly sending Kerber a message she better be ready for a similar onslaught that Radwanska faced.
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Every time President Trump seems to tempt fate — like inviting China on camera yesterday to investigate the Bidens — just remember that he's counting on his red wall in the Senate to save him even if he's impeached.
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"I don't want to tempt fate but my good friend Marty Walsh, who is the mayor of Boston, I told him you can't steal two crowns from us in the same year, that's just rude," Garcetti told Reuters.
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Syndergaard shot down a report that he was also dealing with a bone spur, but Mets Manager Terry Collins did not want to tempt fate with Syndergaard's elbow, so he pulled him after three laborious innings and only 113 pitches.
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However, if for whatever reason, you do decide to tempt fate and embark on an adventure with a plastic bottle, consider this: There's a good reason the glass industry is still alive today, and it's because wine is always better in a glass bottle.
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In our annual family travel issue, a father takes his two sons on a learning adventure in Asia; a mother and son happily skip the chateau at Versailles in favor of the small pleasures; three generations tempt fate on a four-day cycling trip in Quebec; and more.
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Lincoln County Sheriff Kerry Lee told Vox in early September that the cash-strapped county was looking at spending as much as $251,13 providing additional law enforcement to support Rachel and other nearby towns during the weekend, all for an expected influx of visitors who might be looking to tempt fate by charging into Air Force territory.
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The Underwoods are on their way to heaven, even if they have to kill St. Peter first House of Cards has always danced around the worst fears and darkest conspiracy theories about the Clintons with a lead foot, but it's slightly more deft in season four, when the show finally acknowledges that what draws these two together is seeing just how long they can tempt fate in a game of chicken, before fate blinks.
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Aside from being horrendously offensive (many volcanoes are considered sacred), it's expensive to truck waste to lava flows, it's often not hot enough to properly incinerate waste, it can release hazardous chemicals into the air, and the trash itself can trigger an explosive reaction, as you can see in this clip of a trash bag being thrown into Ethiopia's Erta Ale volcano: So while the awesome fury of volcanoes continues to make thrill seekers (idiots) tempt fate, the most prudent course of action is to keep a safe distance.
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Not willing to tempt fate any further, Khmelnytsky headed for the Zaporozhian Sich with a group of his supporters.
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The doctor swears that he will abandon his experiments and never tempt fate again; but that night, without taking the drug, he turns spontaneously into Hyde.
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Some riders take few steps to mitigate the risks of motorcycling. This rider's helmet is unfastened. Transportation historian Jeremy Packer has suggested four categories to describe the different approaches to the risks of motorcycling. The first and fourth categories take opposite views of motorcycling, but share a fatalistic notion that to motorcycle is to tempt fate.
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However, Gudrun pleads with them not to tempt fate and to spare Atli's life. In response, they mock Atli as unfit for a warrior's death and grudgingly allow him to slink forth from the bloodied mead hall. As he departs in shame and anguish, the Goths and Niflungs hurl the Hunnish corpses from the roof. Meanwhile, night falls as Atli rallies warriors throughout the countryside.
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It is said to be of particular significance to "local daredevils" who "often tempt fate by climbing the cliff and jumping into the Bogey Hole." The place has potential to yield information that will contribute to an understanding of the cultural or natural history of New South Wales. The Bogey Hole has the potential to demonstrate early convict excavation techniques as well as subsequent Council modifications. The social significance of the Bogey Hole to identifiable groups merits further investigation.
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After some time playing professional baseball and working at other newspapers, Willett became the first managing editor of the Nashville Tennessean in 1907 while teaching himself law. A mayor of Adams, and member of the State legislature, Charlie Willett was known for his reliability. Every Sunday, Willett would accompany his sweetheart, Miss Jerry Cullom Gardner, for ice cream in Clarksville and dinner at Richardson's Restaurant on the return home. According to community lore, the couple never married so as not to tempt fate as they descended from the Bell and Gardner families respectively.
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The man became consumed with grief over his hasty decision to kill the weasel. The wife returned and told the husband that this was the price of hastiness. Sub-story one - The pious man, the fat and the honey - Told by the wife to the husband not to tempt fate by declaring the unborn baby a boy, as it is something beyond his knowledge. There was once a pious man who would pass by the house of a businessman, who would daily give the pious man some fat and honey to eat.
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Against, the reasons were all quite practical: an attack would place a great stake on a single strategy with an uncertain method of solution; there was not enough money in the treasury; negotiations with other Italian states were uncertain; the Swiss might ally themselves with France; and the area would soon be fraught with danger from the impending winter. However, Gattinara argued that the war was justified by Charles V's bond to honor the Pope, whom he needed as an ally. Clearly, God was on Charles's side, and to let France escape a fight would be to tempt fate—he would not have the chance, as resources would not be mobilized so easily next time. Additionally, with the army mobilized, it would not look good to call it off at the eleventh hour.
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In the matches played between the two sides during the regular season, each team won their home game, with Coventry winning 2–1 at the Ricoh Arena in September 2017 and Exeter victorious at St James Park 1–0 the following January. McNulty was the highest scorer for Coventry with 23 league goals during the season while Stockley was Exeter's top marksman with 19 goals during the league campaign. Exeter City manager Paul Tisdale was confident in his team's chances of victory, reflecting on their previous season's failure at Wembley, suggesting that his players had "experience of the build-up, the logistics, the preparations and what it felt like to lose". His counterpart Mark Robins was cautious noting that Coventry were "one step away but you don't want to tempt fate".
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Jerome was a close personal friend of J.M. Barrie, and so probably knew Michael Llewelyn Davies. It is also mentioned in The Dictionary of the Thames by Charles Dickens, Jr.. > It is notorious to all rowing men and habitue's of the river that Sandford > Lasher has almost yearly demanded its tale of victims and it is almost > inconceivable that people will continue year after year to tempt fate in > this and other equally dangerous places In Tom Brown at Oxford, by Thomas Hughes, first published in 1861, the eponymous, principal character has a narrow escape after accidentally rowing a skiff over the weir and into the lasher. Sandford Lock is briefly mentioned in The Four Feathers by A.E.W. Mason (1902). It is also briefly mentioned in the poem The Burden of Itys by Oscar Wilde.
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