Wherever the fates lead us let us follow.
~By Virgil ~
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 ~
Responsibility without power, the fate of the secretary through the ages.
~By Ariel Dorfman ~
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 ~
You wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you should be bringing about by yourself.
~By Doug Coupland ~
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 ~
People without firmness of character love to make up a fate for themselves; that relieves them of the necessity of having their own will and of taking responsibility for themselves.
~By Ivan Turgenev ~
My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact.
~By Benoit Mandelbrot ~
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 ~
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 ~
The hand of fate had dipped into the ragbag of humanity.
~By Jean Shepherd ~
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 ~
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 ~
Whether it's destiny or fate or whatever, I don't think I could do a French Laundry anywhere else.
~By Thomas Keller ~
If you do not create your destiny, you will have your fate inflicted upon you.
~By William Irwin Thompson ~
Immortality - a fate worse than death.
~By Edgar A. Shoaff ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.
~By Elizabeth Bowen ~
Though we hear various reports of his existence we can never find the young wizard who is able so they say to graft the soul of a girl to the soul of her lover so that not even the sharp scissors of the Fates can ever sever them apart.
~By Harry Crosby ~
There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.
~By Albert Camus ~
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 ~
Go with your fate, but not beyond. Beyond leads to dark places.
~By Mary Renault ~
The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!
~By Robert Browning ~
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 often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
~By Novalis ~
Man's fate in battle is worked out before the war begins.
~By Charles Wilson ~
If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.
~By Charles Revson ~
When good befalls a man he calls it Providence, when evil fate.
~By Knut Hamsun ~
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 fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.
~By Emile Zola ~
Saddam's fate should be in the hands of his country men. They were the major victims of his brutal reign and should decide his life, death, or permanent imprisonment. Personally, I would lock him away forever.
~By Ronnie James Dio ~
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 ~
It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
~By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~
It is usually more important how a man meets his fate than what it is.
~By Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt ~
Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
~By John Dryden ~
How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.
~By Wilhelm von Humboldt ~
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 ~
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 Buddha ~
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 ~
All art is a revolt against man's fate.
~By Andre Malraux ~
The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the disenchantment of the world.
~By Max Weber ~
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 ~
My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.
~By Aldous Huxley ~
Just because Fate doesn't deal you the right cards, it doesn't mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.
~By Les Brown ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
I generally wade in blind and trust to fate and instinct to see me through.
~By Peter Straub ~
Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.
~By Harry S. Truman ~
Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out til too late that he's been playing with two queens all along.
~By Terry Pratchett ~
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 ~
Actors work and slave and it is the color of your hair that can determine your fate in the end.
~By Helen Hayes ~
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 ~
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 ~
Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate.
~By Olympia Brown ~
Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
In the beds which the piety of the public has prepared on every side, stricken men await the verdict of fate.
~By Georges Duhamel ~
Commerce changes the fate and genius of nations.
~By Thomas Gray ~
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 ~
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 ~
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
~By Franklin D. Roosevelt ~
I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.
~By Arthur Rimbaud ~
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 ~
With these men and women who work-for the cause with all their hearts, with cool heads and skilled hands we will master every fate.
~By Gustav Krupp ~
I don't believe in fate or destiny. I believe in various degrees of hatred, paranoia, and abandonment. However much of that gets heaped upon you doesn't matter - it's only a matter of how much you can take and what it does to you.
~By Henry Rollins ~
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 ~
It is the fate of operating systems to become free.
~By Neal Stephenson ~
It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active.
~By John Philpot Curran ~
When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.
~By Carl Jung ~
Fate is never too generous even to its favorites. Rarely do the gods grant a mortal more than one immortal deed.
~By Stefan Zweig ~
The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off.
~By Benito Mussolini ~
It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
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 ~
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 ~
There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.
~By Ella Wheeler Wilcox ~
We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.
~By Gloria Estefan ~
Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.
~By Albert Einstein ~
Oh, how sweet it is to pity the fate of an enemy who can no longer threaten us!
~By Pierre Corneille ~
In July, 1892, fate suddenly granted me financial independence.
~By Carl Spitteler ~
The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
~By Amelia Barr ~
In my writing with Extreme, there are heavy themes. The cover photo has me with a gun to my neck. I am not advocating suicide. I am taking the philosophy that man is the measure of his own fate.
~By Gary Cherone ~
To have united the purposes of an entire Nation, is the great historical achievement of the man in whose strong hands our President has placed the fate of our people.
~By Gustav Krupp ~
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 ~
Here an attempt is made to explain suffering: the outcaste of traditional Hinduism is held to deserve his fetched fate; it is a punishment for the wrongs he did in a previous life.
~By Walter Kaufmann ~
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 ~
Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
~By e. e. cummings ~
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 ~
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 ~
My whole life has been decided by fate.
~By Sharon Tate ~
Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.
~By Charles Baudelaire ~
How unfair the fate which ordains that those who have the least should be always adding to the treasury of the wealthy.
~By Terence ~
They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.
~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
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 ~
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 ~
I believe that fate is choices - it's not chance.
~By Wayne Newton ~
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 ~
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