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.
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Fate is a ladder on which you cannot afford to miss a single rung. To skip out on even one step would mean you'll never make it to the top.
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I don't believe in providence and fate, as a technologist I am used to reckoning with the formulae of probability.
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Destiny is what we work toward. The future doesn't exist yet. Fate is for losers.
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You were a stranger to sorrow: therefore Fate has cursed you.
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Destiny is thrifty. To weave her tapestry, she uses even the tiniest snips of thread.
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What can be avoided Whose end is purposed by the mighty gods?
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The fate of this man or that man was less than a drop, although it was a sparkling one, in the great blue motion of the sunlit sea.
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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.
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The heart is its own Fate.
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Fate seems to be taking me in some even stranger directions.
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It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.
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When fate is got it in for you, there is no limit to what you may have to put up with.
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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.”
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That day she put our heads together, Fate had her imagination about her, Your head so much concerned with outer, Mine with inner, weather.
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Don't bemoan your fate. Everybody's not going to be dealt the same hand. Everybody's going to go through tough times.
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Deep in the man sits fast his fate To mould his fortunes, mean or great.
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So-called real life has only once interfered with me, and it had been a far cry from what the words, lines, books had prepared me for. Fate had to do with blind seers, oracles, choruses announcing death, not with panting next to the refrigerator, fumbling with condoms, waiting in a Honda parked round the corner and surreptitious encounters in a Lisbon hotel. Only the written word exists, everything one must do oneself is without form, subject to contingency without rhyme or reason. It takes too long. And if it ends badly the metre isn't right, and there's no way to cross things out.
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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.
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For those whom God to ruin has design'd,He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
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You must avoid blindness of mind by setting goals. ... I have long contended that the person who sets goals and who strives to attain such is the master of his own fate.
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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.
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George's son had done his work so thoroughly that he was considered too good a workman to live, and was, in fact, taken and tragically shot at twelve o'clock that same day—another instance of the untoward fate which so often attends dogs and other philosophers who follow out a train of reasoning to its logical conclusion, and attempt perfectly consistent conduct in a world made up so largely of compromise.
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Hitler was the fate of Germany and this fate could not be stayed.
