Fate Quotes
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I do I know not what, and fear to find Mine eye too great a flatterer for my mind. Fate, show thy force. Ourselves we do not owe. What is decreed must be; and be this so.
William Shakespeare
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It is the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination. On personal integrity hangs humanity's fate.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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That's Quentin. He's an absolute master of his own fate. If he agrees with you, he'll change his mind instantly. If he thinks that he's right, there's no way you can get him to change his mind.
David Carradine
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To create is likewise to give a shape to one's fate.
Albert Camus
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If man chooses oblivion, he can go right on leaving his fate to his political leaders. If he chooses Utopia, he must initiate an enormous education program - immediately, if not sooner.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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I don't play monsters. I play men besieged by fate and out for revenge.
Vincent Price
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To die for one's country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death.
Pierre Corneille
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Don't dwell on what may be. Apply yourself to the task at hand. The Hags of Fate may predict the future, but there is always free will, and that is your saving grace, my dear.
Yasmine Galenorn
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My only desire is an intimate infusion with nature, and the only fate I wish is to have worked and lived in harmony with her laws.
Claude Monet
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It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity.
William Samuel Johnson
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Fate finds for every man; his share of misery.
Euripides
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I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
Vincent Van Gogh
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The minute you start to strategize too much, the more you start to think you're in control of your own fate. And you're not, really.
James McAvoy
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I love Italian opera - it's so reckless. Damn Wagner, and his bellowings at Fate and death. Damn Debussy, and his averted face. I like the Italians who run all on impulse, and don't care about their immortal souls, and don't worry about the ultimate.
D. H. Lawrence
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It is my fate to be considered an authority, since I spent my youth rebelling against it.
Albert Einstein
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
Matthew Arnold
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As fate is inexorable, and not to be moved either with tears or reproaches, an excess of sorrow is as foolish as profuse laughter; while, on the other hand, not to mourn at all is insensibility.
Seneca the Younger
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Men at some time are masters of their fates.
William Shakespeare
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Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.
Alexander the Great
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Our fate is matched by the total freedom we have to react to our fate. It is as if we were dealt a hand of card. Once we have them, we are free to play them as we choose.
Thomas Sowell
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Fate has carried me 'Mid the thick arrows: I will keep my stand Not shrink and let the shaft pass by my breast To pierce another.
George Eliot
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Oh, how sweet it is to pity the fate of an enemy who can no longer threaten us!
Pierre Corneille
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Prophecies do not alter fate, only confirm it.
Bette Lord
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Divine the Powers that on this trio wait. Supreme their conquest, over Time and Fate. Love, Work, and Faith - these three alone are great.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox