Fate Quotes
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Therefore the love which us doth bind, But Fate so enviously debars, Is the conjunction of the mind, And opposition of the stars.
Andrew Marvell -
The covetous map explores the whole world in pursuit of a subsistence, and fate is close at his heels.
Saadi
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You were a stranger to sorrow: therefore Fate has cursed you.
Euripides -
You could see a man talking to himself as just plain crazy, or read about the criminal on the front page of the daily paper and ponder the corruption of the human heart, without having to think about whether the criminal or lunatic said something about your own fate.
Barack Obama -
There is no armor against fate.
James Shirley -
The Vietnamese Hoa were merchants and manufacturers. They were very successful and thus, according to the logic of Marxism, responsible for society's failures. The Hoa suffered the same fate as the pizza parlour in Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing except at the hands of the world's fourth largest army instead of a small, petulant movie director.
P. J. O'Rourke -
If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow.
William McFee -
It is not... That some people do not know what to do with truth when it is offered to them, But the tragic fate is to reach, after patient search, a condition of mind-blindness, in which. The truth is not recognized, though it stares you in the face.
William Osler
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Who does not believe in Fate proves that he has not lived.
Emil Cioran -
It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity.
William Samuel Johnson -
Man is perishing. That may be, and if it is nothingness that awaits us let us so act that it will be an unjust fate.
Miguel de Unamuno -
what cannot be saved when fate takes, patience her injury a mockery makes
William Shakespeare -
There are some of us who in after years say to Fate, 'Now deal us your hardest blow, give us what you will; but let us never again suffer as we suffered when we were children.' The barb in the arrow of childhood's suffering is this: its intense loneliness, its intense ignorance.
Olive Schreiner -
Fate finds for every man; his share of misery.
Euripides
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You do not have to accept the hand that Fate has dealt you.
Cressida Cowell -
When I look at life I try to be as agnostic and unmetaphysical as possible. So I have to admit that, most probably, we do not have a fate. But I think that's something that draws us to novels - that the characters always have a fate. Even if it's a terrible fate, at least they have one.
Daniel Kehlmann -
The fate of a nation depends on the way that they eat.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin -
Taxes are a universal burden in moral as well as in civil life. There is not a pleasure, social or otherwise, which is not assessed by fate at its full value!
Alfred de Musset -
Destiny is what we work toward. The future doesn't exist yet. Fate is for losers.
Douglas Coupland -
Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.
Alexander the Great
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Losing your way on a journey is unfortunate. But, losing your reason for the journey is a fate more cruel.
H. G. Wells -
I have found power in the mysteries of thought, exaltation in the changing of the Muses; I have been versed in the reasonings of men; but Fate is stronger than anything I have known.
Euripides -
If you do not create your destiny, you will have your fate inflicted upon you.
William Irwin Thompson -
Yet who shall shut out Fate?
Edwin Arnold