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 ~
We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take. ~By Gloria Estefan ~
If you can't change your fate, change your attitude. ~By Charles Revson ~
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 ~
Man blindly works the will of fate. ~By Christoph Martin Wieland ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature. ~By Alexander Pope ~
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 ~
Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are; the reason or formula by which the world goes on. ~By Citium Zeno ~
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 ~
But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state? ~By Alexander Pope ~
The compulsion of fate is bitter. ~By Christoph Martin Wieland ~
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 ~
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 ~
The fate of the singers who, like my songs, went up in flame was also the fate of the books which I later wrote. All of them went up in flame to Heaven in a fire which broke out one night at my home in Bad Homburg as I lay ill in a hospital. ~By Shmuel Y. Agnon ~
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 ~
Names and individuals are unimportant when Germany's final fate is at stake. ~By Franz von Papen ~
No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation. ~By Knut Hamsun ~
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 ~
The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much. ~By Amelia Barr ~
The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance. ~By Aeschylus ~
When a high-profile personality lives like I do, everybody thinks that person is fated to die young. ~By Dennis Rodman ~
When a decision is made to go to war based on intelligence, it is a fateful decision. It has ramifications and impacts way beyond the current months and years. ~By Carl Levin ~
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 ~
It makes me believe in fate. In most cases, the readings where I've been really bad have usually been the ones where I got the part. ~By Robin Wright Penn ~
All the nations they had to deal with, had the same fate. ~By Algernon Sydney ~
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 ~
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 ~
It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate. ~By Henry David Thoreau ~
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 ~
Immortality - a fate worse than death. ~By Edgar A. Shoaff ~
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 ~
France cannot be destroyed. She is an old country who, despite her misfortunes, has, and always will have, thanks to her past, a tremendous prestige in the world, whatever the fate inflicted upon her. ~By Pierre Laval ~
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 ~
Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate. ~By Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach ~
Saying sulfates do not cause acid rain is the same as saying that smoking does not cause lung cancer. ~By Drew Lewis ~
Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall. ~By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Oh, how sweet it is to pity the fate of an enemy who can no longer threaten us! ~By Pierre Corneille ~
I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate. ~By Lucan ~
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 ~
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 ~
In July, 1892, fate suddenly granted me financial independence. ~By Carl Spitteler ~
Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn't want me to be too famous too young. ~By Duke Ellington ~
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 ~
Wherever the fates lead us let us follow. ~By Virgil ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 determines many things, no matter how we struggle. ~By Otto Weininger ~
Yes, young men, Italy owes to you an undertaking which has merited the applause of the universe. You have conquered and you will conquer still, because you are prepared for the tactics that decide the fate of battles. ~By Giuseppe Garibaldi ~
Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him. ~By Groucho Marx ~
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 ~
What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate. ~By Donald Trump ~
In my view, the humanity of our world can be measured against the fate of Africa. ~By Horst Koehler ~
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 ~
All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey. ~By John Dryden ~
Love cannot save you from your own fate. ~By Jim Morrison ~
Fate is never too generous even to its favorites. Rarely do the gods grant a mortal more than one immortal deed. ~By Stefan Zweig ~
Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God. ~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat. ~By Elizabeth Bowen ~
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 ~
A nation is a totality of men united through community of fate into a community of character. ~By Otto Bauer ~
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 ~
How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is. ~By Wilhelm von Humboldt ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
There is no armor against fate. ~By James Shirley ~
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 ~
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 ~
They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates. ~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife; This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life. ~By Carolyn Wells ~
Maybe our mistakes are what make our fate. ~By Sarah Jessica Parker ~
I have complete artistic control, and I just do my best album every time and trust it to fate. ~By Susannah McCorkle ~
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 ~
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 ~
It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards. ~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~
Fate will find a way. ~By Virgil ~
When Karim and his group heard about Saddam coming, they wanted to kill him, but fate had other ideas. ~By Saadi ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Then there's the story of ill-fated love. It's universal. ~By Rita Moreno ~
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 ~
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 ~
There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed. ~By Napoleon Bonaparte ~
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 ~
That's life. Whichever way you turn, fate sticks out a foot to trip you. ~By Martin Goldsmith ~
The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate! ~By Robert Browning ~
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 ~
Love is not in our choice but in our fate. ~By John Dryden ~
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