Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
~By e. e. cummings ~
Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts, our attitudes. That is why many people live in the withering negative world. That is why many people live in the Positive Faith world.
~By Alfred A. Montapert ~
It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
The admiral, or commander in chief of a squadron, being frequently invested with a great charge, on which the fate of a kingdom may depend, ought certainly to be possessed of abilities equal to so important a station and so extensive a command.
~By William Falconer ~
People's fates are simplified by their names.
~By Elias Canetti ~
I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate.
~By Lucan ~
A man's character is his fate.
~By Heraclitus ~
The compulsion of fate is bitter.
~By Christoph Martin Wieland ~
When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.
~By Norm Crosby ~
Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions.
~By Muhammed Iqbal ~
Fate destined me to play Fagin. It was the part of a lifetime, and I was the only actor to be in the stage production and in the film.
~By Ron Moody ~
Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.
~By Gene Fowler ~
Homelessness is the actor's fate; physical incapacity to attain what is most required and desired by such a spirit as I am a slave to.
~By Edwin Booth ~
There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learned to separate them.
~By John Desmond Bernal ~
I have never seen such extreme partisanship, such bitter partisanship, and such forgetfulness of the fate of our fathers and of the Constitution.
~By Robert Byrd ~
Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.
~By Elizabeth Bowen ~
It goes without saying that the Jewish people can have no other goal than Palestine and that, whatever the fate of the proposition may be, our attitude toward the land of our fathers is and shall remain unchangeable.
~By Theodor Herzl ~
The fate of you, the aristocracy of industry, will be as the fate of the aristocracy of land if you do not show that you have some humanity still among you.
~By James Larkin ~
I'm not a big believer in a thing called luck. I believe it has a lot to do with fate and just really having a vision of the way you would see your life.
~By Marla Maples ~
I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, tomorrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today.
~By Abraham Crowley ~
Man's fate in battle is worked out before the war begins.
~By Charles Wilson ~
I can only say that one's individual situation is more real and important to oneself than the devastations of fates and empires especially when they do not vitally affect oneself.
~By Isaac Rosenberg ~
It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.
~By Joseph Conrad ~
To live alone is the fate of all great souls.
~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~
Art is a revolt against fate.
~By Andre Malraux ~
Suffer not thy wrongs to shroud thy fate, But turn, my soul, to blessings which remain.
~By Anna Seward ~
To bear is to conquer our fate.
~By Thomas Campbell ~
One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.
~By Joan of Arc ~
No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation.
~By Knut Hamsun ~
Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
~By William Ernest Henley ~
I'm an action player. I like to be aggressive. I don't like to be on the run. I like to feel like I have the fates in my hands and that through my skill or lack thereof I control my fate.
~By Eugene Jarvis ~
When a high-profile personality lives like I do, everybody thinks that person is fated to die young.
~By Dennis Rodman ~
Our fates are in the hands of An Almighty God, to whom I can with pleasure confide my own; he can save us, or destroy us; his Councils are fixed and cannot be disappointed, and all his designs will be Accomplished.
~By Abraham Clark ~
Then there's the story of ill-fated love. It's universal.
~By Rita Moreno ~
The futures and ultimate fates of the characters in The Snow Queen are profoundly changed by choices made in their own minds or hearts, as well as choices unexpectedly forced on them by things beyond their control.
~By Joan D. Vinge ~
I truly, truly believe that I was going in that direction and all of a sudden fate took me and put me here. It's like something else has other plans for me.
~By Christopher Atkins ~
In his first 100 days, Mr. Obama has put the fate of his presidency in the hands of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. He may come to regret that decision.
~By Karl Rove ~
Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
~By John Dryden ~
History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our own?
~By Christian Lous Lange ~
Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.
~By Harry S. Truman ~
Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
~By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~
I'm not a religious person, so I'm not a hardcore fate fan but I guess it's got me thinking about that. I was very careful, though, not to link Jaye's stories always to that.
~By Caroline Dhavernas ~
Go with your fate, but not beyond. Beyond leads to dark places.
~By Mary Renault ~
America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description.
~By Ralph Ellison ~
I can't recall any difficulty in making the C language definition completely open - any discussion on the matter tended to mention languages whose inventors tried to keep tight control, and consequent ill fate.
~By Dennis Ritchie ~
One-third of our people were dangerously ill, getting worse hourly, and we felt sure of meeting the same fate, with death as our only prospect, which in such a country was much worse yet.
~By Alvar N. C. de Vaca ~
The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.
~By John Adams ~
But I have learned a thing or two; I know as sure as fate, when we lock up our lives for wealth, the gold key comes too late.
~By Will Carleton ~
Even in political considerations, now-a-days, you have stronger motives to feel interested in the fate of Europe than in the fate of the Central or Southern parts of America.
~By Lajos Kossuth ~
That's Anil's path. She grows up in Sri Lanka, goes and gets educated abroad, and through fate or chance gets brought back by the Human Rights Commission to investigate war crimes.
~By Michael Ondaatje ~
I think quite often a fate worse than death is life - for lots of people.
~By Tom Baker ~
Fate is for losers.
~By Doug Coupland ~
All the nations they had to deal with, had the same fate.
~By Algernon Sydney ~
Love cannot save you from your own fate.
~By Jim Morrison ~
Despite elections and the experience of post-Soviet personal freedoms by the Russian people, the fate of democracy in Russia is perhaps more ambiguous now than at any time since the collapse of the Communist system.
~By Richard Lugar ~
Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time they have left.
~By Ingrid Bergman ~
Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate.
~By Sun Tzu ~
A nation is a totality of men united through community of fate into a community of character.
~By Otto Bauer ~
All art is a revolt against man's fate.
~By Andre Malraux ~
In the first instance, therefore, global terrorism created a kind of global community sharing a common fate, something we had previously considered impossible.
~By Ulrich Beck ~
This principle is old, but true as fate, Kings may love treason, but the traitor hate.
~By Thomas Dekker ~
God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection.
~By Alfred Adler ~
What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate.
~By Donald Trump ~
When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.
~By Dale Carnegie ~
That fateful stretch of road has since been dubbed the Highway of Death.
~By John Whitehead ~
The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition.
~By John Acton ~
Today, as never before, the fates of men are so intimately linked to one another that a disaster for one is a disaster for everybody.
~By Natalia Ginzburg ~
Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.
~By Alexander the Great ~
Fate keeps on happening.
~By Anita Loos ~
As a nation we have the right to decide our own affairs, to mould our own future. This does not pose any danger to anybody. Our nation is fully aware of the responsibility for its own fate in the complicated situation of the contemporary world.
~By Lech Walesa ~
Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn't want me to be too famous too young.
~By Duke Ellington ~
The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
If there's any business that instructs you in the strong hand of fate, it's show business. You can plan and plan, but it's what happens to you that really determines what your career will be like.
~By Sam Waterston ~
The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them.
~By Thomas Sowell ~
I wouldn't change anything. I think that it's important to let things happen, and stay "happened". I think that's all part of the learning curve, part of fate. I'm just glad that it happened.
~By Mike Peters ~
We have become makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.
~By Karl Popper ~
It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art.
~By Margaret Oliphant ~
History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
~By Thomas Huxley ~
I believe that fate is choices - it's not chance.
~By Wayne Newton ~
Right now my mind is on the people who stole our instruments, and, specifically, the person with my guitar, which will no doubt end its days having Green Day songs worked out on it. A better fate was deserved - and while the reverence given to guitars annoys me, I shall miss it.
~By Jonny Greenwood ~
These clashes are the only evolu-tionary possibility which will enable us one day, now that Fate has given us the Fuehrer Adolf Hitler, to create the Germanic Reich.
~By Heinrich Himmler ~
If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way.
~By Anais Nin ~
Responsibility without power, the fate of the secretary through the ages.
~By Ariel Dorfman ~
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
~By Marcus Aurelius ~
I don't believe in providence and fate, as a technologist I am used to reckoning with the formulae of probability.
~By Max Frisch ~
Have any of our friends got off the Island with their families, or what must they submit to? Despotism or destruction, I fear, is their fate.
~By William Floyd ~
Storytelling is the only studio movie where the censorship is perfectly clear, the only studio movie with a big red box covering up a shot. I take pride in that - and, of course, in having avoided the fate of Eyes Wide Shut.
~By Todd Solondz ~
Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are; the reason or formula by which the world goes on.
~By Citium Zeno ~
There are things I am more interested in than the clone thing. How are they trying to find their place in the world and make sense of their lives? To what extent can they transcend their fate? As time starts to run out, what are the things that really matter?
~By Kazuo Ishiguro ~
But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
~By Alexander Pope ~
Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.
~By Jacques Delille ~
My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything; but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair.
~By Aeschylus ~
How unfair the fate which ordains that those who have the least should be always adding to the treasury of the wealthy.
~By Terence ~
It is the customary fate of new truths, to begin as heresies, and to end as superstitions.
~By Thomas Huxley ~
Many other countries in this world are in a difficult situation, and all the Thai people are probably worried about the fate of Thailand: whether the country would survive or not.
~By Bhumibol Adulyadej ~
In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country's fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language!
~By Ivan Turgenev ~
I think we are bound to, and by, nature. We may want to deny this connection and try to believe we control the external world, but every time there's a snowstorm or drought, we know our fate is tied to the world around us.
~By Alice Hoffman ~
It is usually more important how a man meets his fate than what it is.
~By Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt ~
That's life. Whichever way you turn, fate sticks out a foot to trip you.
~By Martin Goldsmith ~
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