Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
~By John Dryden ~
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 ~
If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.
~By Charles Revson ~
Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.
~By Don Marquis ~
Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn't want me to be too famous too young.
~By Duke Ellington ~
All art is a revolt against man's fate.
~By Andre Malraux ~
In my view, the humanity of our world can be measured against the fate of Africa.
~By Horst Koehler ~
Fate is for losers.
~By Doug Coupland ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist.
~By Plutarch ~
Fate will find a way.
~By Virgil ~
Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll; I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.
~By William Ernest Henley ~
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 ~
It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
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 ~
Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.
~By Alexander the Great ~
Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are; the reason or formula by which the world goes on.
~By Citium Zeno ~
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 ~
No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation.
~By Knut Hamsun ~
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 ~
Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.
~By Thomas Mann ~
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 ~
And if you cannot remain indifferent, you must resolve to throw your weight into that balance in which the fate and condition of man is weighed.
~By Lajos Kossuth ~
The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
~By O. Henry ~
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 ~
In the beds which the piety of the public has prepared on every side, stricken men await the verdict of fate.
~By Georges Duhamel ~
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 ~
When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.
~By Robert Green Ingersoll ~
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 ~
Love cannot save you from your own fate.
~By Jim Morrison ~
I have complete artistic control, and I just do my best album every time and trust it to fate.
~By Susannah McCorkle ~
That fateful stretch of road has since been dubbed the Highway of Death.
~By John Whitehead ~
It is the customary fate of new truths, to begin as heresies, and to end as superstitions.
~By Thomas Huxley ~
I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above; those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love.
~By William Butler Yeats ~
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 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 ~
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 ~
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 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 ~
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 anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.
~By Aeschylus ~
We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
~By R. Buckminster Fuller ~
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 ~
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 ~
Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate.
~By Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach ~
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 ~
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 ~
We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.
~By Gloria Estefan ~
To die for one's country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death.
~By Pierre Corneille ~
It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active.
~By John Philpot Curran ~
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 ~
Saying sulfates do not cause acid rain is the same as saying that smoking does not cause lung cancer.
~By Drew Lewis ~
The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
~By Amelia Barr ~
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 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 ~
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 ~
A person may rightfully be happy if in this life he could do a great favor for widows and orphans, could assist support than, and facilitate fate of people.
~By Islom Karimov ~
Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
~By Franklin D. Roosevelt ~
That's life. Whichever way you turn, fate sticks out a foot to trip you.
~By Martin Goldsmith ~
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 ~
Commerce changes the fate and genius of nations.
~By Thomas Gray ~
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 ~
When good befalls a man he calls it Providence, when evil fate.
~By Knut Hamsun ~
The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the disenchantment of the world.
~By Max Weber ~
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 ~
Names and individuals are unimportant when Germany's final fate is at stake.
~By Franz von Papen ~
I believe that fate is choices - it's not chance.
~By Wayne Newton ~
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 ~
I'm a very big believer in fate.
~By Christopher Atkins ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
How unfair the fate which ordains that those who have the least should be always adding to the treasury of the wealthy.
~By Terence ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
To live alone is the fate of all great souls.
~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~
Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
~By e. e. cummings ~
Only the closest collaborators of the Fuehrer know how difficult is the burden of this responsibility; how sorrowful are the hours during which decisions must be made which bear upon the well being and the fate of all of Germany.
~By Hjalmar Schacht ~
I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.
~By Anatole France ~
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 ~
It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe.
~By Henry James ~
When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.
~By Dale Carnegie ~
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 usually more important how a man meets his fate than what it is.
~By Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt ~
Fate keeps on happening.
~By Anita Loos ~
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 ~
When Karim and his group heard about Saddam coming, they wanted to kill him, but fate had other ideas.
~By Saadi ~
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 ~
Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions.
~By Muhammed Iqbal ~
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 ~
Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.
~By Harry S. Truman ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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