Fate Quotes
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If you are really Master of your Fate, it shouldn't make any difference to you whether Cleopatra or the Bearded Lady is your mate.
Ogden Nash -
The people you choose must (a) make you think smarter and (b) put lots of solutions on the table in a short amount of time. I don’t care who it is, the janitor or the intern or one of your most trusted lieutenants: If they can help you do that, they should be at the table.” Believe me, you don’t want to be at a company where there is more candor in the hallways than in the rooms where fundamental ideas or matters of policy are being hashed out. The best inoculation against this fate? Seek out people who are willing to level with you, and when you find them, hold them close.
Edwin Catmull
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The hand of fate had dipped into the ragbag of humanity.
Jean Shepherd -
All you need to do is write truly and not care about what the fate of it is.
Ernest Hemingway -
The wheel of the Good Law moves swiftly on. It grinds by night and day. The worthless husks it drives from out the golden grain, the refuse from the flour. The hand of fate guides the wheel; the revolutions mark the beatings of the heart of manifestation.
H. P. Blavatsky -
He must needs go that the devil drives.
William Shakespeare -
We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.
William James -
What people commonly call Fate is, as a general rule, nothing but their own stupid and foolish conduct.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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I just reached the point where plot-driven novels don't hold my interest because I don't care about the fate of characters anymore - whether Emily marries Tom or not, that kind of thing.
Billy Collins -
Look at the fate of summer flowers, which blow at daybreak, droop ere even-song.
William Wordsworth -
Lo! I am Beauty's constant thrall, Must ever on her voice await, And follow through the maze of Fate Her luring, strange and mystical.
Clark Ashton Smith -
Since I won't let the critics seal my fate, they keep hollering I'm full of hate. But they don't really hurt me none, 'cause I'm doing good and having fun.
Muhammad Ali -
Destiny is thrifty. To weave her tapestry, she uses even the tiniest snips of thread.
Zelda Popkin -
The thing is to let life assault you, make yourself as defenseless as you can. If it bruises you, don't protest. Love your fate.
Brian Morton
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“It is Fate that I am here,” persisted George. “But you can call it Italy if it makes you less unhappy.”
E. M. Forster -
When Fate wills that something should come to pass, she sends forth a million of little circumstances to clear and prepare the way.
William Makepeace Thackeray -
We hasten to alienate the very fates we intended to woo.
Vladimir Nabokov -
Come hither, all ye empty things, Ye bubbles rais'd by breath of Kings; Who float upon the tide of state, Come hither, and behold your fate. Let pride be taught by this rebuke, How very mean a thing's a Duke; From all his ill-got honours flung, Turn'd to that dirt from whence he sprung.
Jonathan Swift -
Fate is a great accident.
Arvo Ylppo -
What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
George Eliot
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The weakness of modern tragedy[is that] transgression against the social code is made to bring destruction, as though the social code worked our irrevocable fate.
D. H. Lawrence -
What interests me is the surprising enormous extent to which most people accept the fate that's been given to them, and find some dignity.
Kazuo Ishiguro -
Yes, it is Europe, from the Atlantic to the Urals, it is Europe, it is the whole of Europe, that will decide the fate of the world.
Charles de Gaulle -
I have been trying to point out that in our lives chance may have an astonishing influence and, if I may offer advice to the young laboratory worker, it would be this-never neglect an extraordinary appearance or happening. It may be-usually is, in fact-a false alarm that leads to nothing, but may on the other hand be the clue provided by fate to lead you to some important advance.
Alexander Acosta