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 ~
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 ~
The hand of fate had dipped into the ragbag of humanity. ~By Jean Shepherd ~
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 ~
Then there's the story of ill-fated love. It's universal. ~By Rita Moreno ~
The Browning love story? It is an ideal, all too rare, and yet I hardly think it strange. It would have been far stranger had the fates allowed those two brilliant passionate souls to beat themselves out in silence. ~By Marie Corelli ~
Love is not in our choice but in our fate. ~By John Dryden ~
The fate of a child is in the hands of his parents. ~By Shinichi Suzuki ~
Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn't want me to be too famous too young. ~By Duke Ellington ~
It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him. ~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
To bare our souls is all we ask, to give all we have to life and the beings surrounding us. Here the nature spirits are intense and we appreciate them, make offerings to them - these nature spirits who call us here - sealing our fate with each other, celebrating our love. ~By Alex Grey ~
Something like trying to protect yourself all the time, things like trying to outwit fate. Those things can be the worst thing you can do for yourself. ~By John Frusciante ~
Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations. ~By Salman Rushdie ~
When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate. ~By Carl Jung ~
Wherever the fates lead us let us follow. ~By Virgil ~
I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act. ~By Gilbert K. Chesterton ~
No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation. ~By Knut Hamsun ~
Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions. ~By Muhammed Iqbal ~
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 ~
Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends. ~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
How unfair the fate which ordains that those who have the least should be always adding to the treasury of the wealthy. ~By Terence ~
Whether it's destiny or fate or whatever, I don't think I could do a French Laundry anywhere else. ~By Thomas Keller ~
In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us is an epoch of stupendous happenings. ~By Edmund Husserl ~
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds. ~By Franklin D. Roosevelt ~
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 ~
Muslim delegates concerned about rights in Palestine could have brought their enthusiasm closer to home by addressing the fate of black Christians being slaughtered and enslaved in the Sudan. ~By Jack Schwartz ~
A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm; that after they have lost all they are sure to lose on mixing with the world, enough may still remain to prompt fated support them through great actions. ~By Augustus Hare ~
The event of the landing of these brethren upon our shores is to be, not without its beneficial effect, as well to the colored population of this country, as it promises to be to ill-fated Africa. ~By Lewis Tappan ~
Saying sulfates do not cause acid rain is the same as saying that smoking does not cause lung cancer. ~By Drew Lewis ~
It is usually more important how a man meets his fate than what it is. ~By Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt ~
Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate. ~By Thomas Mann ~
How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is. ~By Wilhelm von Humboldt ~
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 ~
Art is a revolt against fate. ~By Andre Malraux ~
We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take. ~By Gloria Estefan ~
The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate. ~By O. Henry ~
We have become makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets. ~By Karl Popper ~
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 ~
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 ~
I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life. ~By Anatole France ~
Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again. ~By Omar Khayyam ~
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 ~
My whole life has been decided by fate. ~By Sharon Tate ~
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 ~
My most profound confidence is however based upon the fact that at the head of Germany there stands a man by his entire development, his desires, and striving can only have been destined by fate to lead our people into a brighter future. ~By Alfred Jodl ~
Maybe our mistakes are what make our fate. ~By Sarah Jessica Parker ~
If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow. ~By William McFee ~
Fate is for losers. ~By Doug Coupland ~
To live alone is the fate of all great souls. ~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~
I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your ruin, and to the ruin of our children. I give you this warning that you may prepare your mind for your fate. ~By John Adams ~
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 ~
But since day one, we've always been kinda up against it. So at the end, it's not surprising that we were kind of led along for so many months and didn't know what the fate of the show was gonna be. It was... in a weird way, just kind of that was the way it's always been. ~By Will Arnett ~
Character and fate are two words for the same thing. ~By Novalis ~
There is no armor against fate. ~By James Shirley ~
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 ~
The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much. ~By Amelia Barr ~
You wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you should be bringing about by yourself. ~By Doug Coupland ~
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 ~
The compulsion of fate is bitter. ~By Christoph Martin Wieland ~
After Watergate, America was a ship without a rudder. Vietnam was left to its own devices, drifting along towards its fate. ~By Nguyen Cao Ky ~
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 ~
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 ~
I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate. ~By Lucan ~
In days when the public safety is imminently threatened, and the fate of a nation may hang upon a single act, we owe frank speech, above all other men, to him who is highest in authority. I shall speak to you as man to man. ~By Robert Dale Owen ~
A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature. ~By Alexander Pope ~
I believe that fate is choices - it's not chance. ~By Wayne Newton ~
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 ~
That fateful stretch of road has since been dubbed the Highway of Death. ~By John Whitehead ~
That's life. Whichever way you turn, fate sticks out a foot to trip you. ~By Martin Goldsmith ~
When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade. ~By Dale Carnegie ~
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 ~
Germany's fate is decided first and foremost in Europe. Reconciliation and cooperation in Europe have brought us freedom, peace and prosperity. Who would have dared to believe so much 50 years ago? ~By Horst Koehler ~
When I need a word and do not find it in French, I select it from other tongues, and the reader has either to understand or translate me. Such is my fate. ~By Jean Anthelme Brillat Savarin ~
This crowd did not diminish through the whole of that cold, wet day; they seemed not to know what was to by their fate since their great benefactor was dead, and though strong and brave men wept when I met them. ~By Gideon Welles ~
Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks. ~By Isabel Allende ~
History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. ~By Thomas Huxley ~
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 ~
The reason that I keep writing is that all my most powerful messages about the fates of wild places that I care about need to have words as well as images. ~By Galen Rowell ~
Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny. ~By Harry S. Truman ~
Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins. ~By Franz Kafka ~
Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends. ~By Jacques Delille ~
I have complete artistic control, and I just do my best album every time and trust it to fate. ~By Susannah McCorkle ~
All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey. ~By John Dryden ~
So I constantly play women who are damaged and out of touch, who are seeking without knowing, or knowing without the skills to transform their lives. But then, that's really the fate of many women today. ~By Olympia Dukakis ~
The history of England, who has always dealt most harshly with her vanquished foe in the few European wars in which she has taken part in modern times, gives us Germans an idea of the fate in store for us if defeated. ~By Bernhard von Bulow ~
Fate keeps on happening. ~By Anita Loos ~
Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but mind; which experienced a similar fate from the hand of Mr. Hume in 1737. ~By Sydney Smith ~
In a sad twist of fate, the bill to reauthorize the Patriot Act was debated on the floor of the House of Representatives the same day that terrorists struck again. ~By Jim Sensenbrenner ~
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 ~
Whatever else may divide us, Europe is our common home; a common fate has linked us through the centuries, and it continues to link us today. ~By Leonid I. Brezhnev ~
All of us, who are members of the Germanic peoples, can be happy and thankful that once in thousands of years fate has given us, from among the Germanic peoples, such a genius, a leader, our Fuehrer Adolf Hitler, and you should be happy to be allowed to work with us. ~By Heinrich Himmler ~
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 generally wade in blind and trust to fate and instinct to see me through. ~By Peter Straub ~
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 ~
All the asylum clothing is made by the patients, but sewing does not employ one's mind. After several months' confinement the thoughts of the busy world grow faint, and all the poor prisoners can do is to sit and ponder over their hopeless fate. ~By Nellie Bly ~
But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state? ~By Alexander Pope ~
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 ~
I'm a very big believer in fate. ~By Christopher Atkins ~
The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance. ~By Aeschylus ~
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 ~
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