Fate Quotes
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Fate is what Heaven imparts.
Dagobert D. Runes
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There is no more terrible fate for a comedian than to be taken seriously.
Barry Humphries
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Beneath the surface of states and nations, ideas and language, lies the fate of individual human beings in need. Answering their needs will be the mission of the United Nations in the century to come.
Kofi Annan
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Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.
Charles Baudelaire
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That’s the problem with fiction — or the charm, if you want. Even mediocre plots have a way of sinking their hooks into you, until you find yourself concerned for the fates of characters who aren’t even fully convincing.
Charles McGrath
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I believe that the civilization India evolved is not to be beaten in the world. Nothing can equal the seeds sown by our ancestors, Rome went, Greece shared the same fate; the might of the Pharaohs was broken; Japan has become Westernized; of China nothing can be said; but India is still, somehow or other, sound at the foundation.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.
B. C. Forbes
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I learned that I could control my life. You are the master of your fate. . . you are the captain of your soul. I took control and went to my space. . . My space. . . the universal energy. . . I tapped into that space of divine flow, where all beings, all things are connected. That space is real. You cannot have a meaningful life without having spiritual self-reflection. Know who you are and why you are here. When you tap into that space, divine flow, that universal energy, you become untouchable in what you are called to do.
Oprah Winfrey
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Nothing can be said: nothing sure, nothing probable, nothing honest. Better to err through omission than through commission: better to refrain from steering the fate of others, since it is already so difficult to navigate one's own.
Primo Levi
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Fate, and the dooming gods, are deaf to tears.
John Dryden
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You always hear about the disempowered actor, their fate in other people's hands. It's just really wonderful to experience it the other way around.
Elizabeth Marvel
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You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve.
Jane Austen
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All things in the world of Nature are not controlled by Fate for the soul has a principle of its own.
Iamblichus
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My four years in Russia end, then, in dramatic fashion: with a textbook Soviet-style expulsion. I am the first western staff correspondent to suffer this fate since the end of the Cold War. I'm stunned. But my expulsion is not, I reflect, a surprise. It's something I have always accepted as a real, if far-fetched, possibility.
Luke Harding
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If Turkey is ready, we must begin talks. And if Croatia is ready, there too. But we can't have a quid pro quo with the fate of these countries' populations.
Javier Solana
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The pencil moved prophetic: together now men read In the fair book of nature, and find the hope they need. The wreath woven by the river is by the seaside worn, And one of fate's best arrows to its due mark is borne.
Margaret Fuller
