Fate Quotes
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Eh! sire, that is the fate of truth; she is a stern companion; she bristles all over with steel; she wounds those whom she attacks, and sometimes him who speaks her.
Alexandre Dumas
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Seeing only what is fair, Sipping only what is sweet, Thou dost mock at fate and care.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Everybody uses mime and gesture in real life, though we don’t realize it. It’s very useful as a performance technique, though it can be boring to watch on its own. As for radio, I had a wonderful teacher. I was hugely lucky. I didn’t want to play a robot, but the situation was an object lesson in fate taking over.
Anthony Daniels
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Go with your fate, but not beyond. Beyond leads to dark places.
Mary Renault
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Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate,Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate?
Samuel Johnson
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Oh, so seldom does fate cast our enemy into our hands, to do with as we will.
Donna Leon
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It is nobody's right to be waited on and nobody's fate to do the waiting.
Margaret Heffernan
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Necessity is harsh. Fate has no reprieve.
Euripides
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Yes, I know what passion would fill me with all its power. Before, I was too young. I got in the way. Now I know that acting and loving and suffering is living, of course, but it’s only living insofar as you can be transparent and accept your fate, like the unique reflection of a rainbow of joys and passions which is the same for everyone.
Albert Camus
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Sometimes choice is a luxury that fate does not afford us.
Jasper Fforde
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When fate throws a dagger at you, there are ways to catch it. If you catch it by the blade, you can harm yourself. But if you catch it by the handle, you can use it to help you fight through the obstacles ahead.
Norman Vincent Peale
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We have an evolutionary revulsion from slime, the site of our biologic origins. Every month, it is woman's fate to face the abyss of time and being, the abyss which is herself.
Camille Paglia
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Adieu, for him,The dull engagements of the bustling world!Adieu the sick impertinence of praise!And hope, and action! for with her alone,By streams and shades, to steal these sighing hours,Is all he asks, and all that fate can give!
Mark Akenside
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In the lexicon of youth which fate reserves for a bright manhood, there is no such word as fail.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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A left turn in the fate of Russia is as necessary as it is inevitable.
Mikhail Khodorkovsky
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Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
Marquis de Sade
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Fate has it in for me to be an exhibit: that funny old lady from the telly.
Mary Beard
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The Jewish people and their fate are the living witness for the absence of redemption. This, one could say, is the meaning of the chosen people; the Jews are chosen to prove the absence of redemption.
Leo Strauss
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People who write about technology love to huff and puff and hyperbolize. The fate of the entire world seems to hang on every move made by Microsoft or Google or Apple. Every new smart phone gets billed as a potential 'iPhone killer,' while every new product from Apple represents the dawn of a new era. It's ridiculous - and exhausting.
Daniel Lyons
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It strikes me as unfair, and even in bad taste, to select a few of them for boundless admiration, attributing superhuman powers of mind and character to them. This has been my fate, and the contrast between the popular estimate of my powers and achievements and the reality is simply grotesque.
Albert Einstein
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Providence has given human wisdom the choice between two fates: either hope and agitation, or hopelessness and calm.
Yevgeny Baratynsky
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The happiest youth, viewing his progress through, What perils past, what crosses to ensue, Would shut the book, and sit him down and die.
William Shakespeare
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The fate of poetry is to fall in love with the world.
Derek Walcott
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No matter the barbs of fate that frustrate you, no matter how stacked against you the cards of fortune. . . . There is a liberating law in the universe, and you can become the highest of the high, wisest of the wise.
Uell Stanley Andersen