Fate Quotes

• 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
  • Heart
  • Crazy
  • Daily

• As for man, there is little reason to think that he can in the long run escape the fate of other creatures, and if there is a biological law of flux and reflux, his situation is now a highly perilous one. During ten thousand years his numbers have been on the upgrade in spite of wars, pestilences, and famines. This increase in population has become more and more rapid. Biologically, man has for too long a time been rolling an uninterrupted run of sevens.

  

  George R. Stewart
  • Long
  • War
  • Reason

• 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
  • Littles
  • Circumstances
  • Clear

• I don't believe in providence and fate, as a technologist I am used to reckoning with the formulae of probability.

  

  Max Frisch
  • Believe
  • Fate

• 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.

  

  Cees Nooteboom
  • Long
  • Real
  • Book

• You have got to play the game with the cards that have been dealt to you, and it is of no use for you to bewail your fate because you don't hold different ones. Look them over, arrange them, and play. You certainly must play them before you will get any others, and you need never expect to have other people's cards.

  

  Anna Brackett
  • Play
  • Fate
  • Cards

• There are indications because of new inventions, that 10, 15, or 20 nations will have a nuclear capacity, including Red China, by the end of the Presidential office in 1964. This is extremely serious. . . I think the fate not only of our own civilization, but I think the fate of world and the future of the human race, is involved in preventing a nuclear war.

  

  John F. Kennedy
  • World
  • War
  • Future

• 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
  • Good
  • Heart
  • Night

• Fate already warned us to pack it in. We just didn’t hear it in time.

  

  Jonathan Tropper
  • Fate
  • Hear
  • Pack

• For those whom God to ruin has design'd,He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.

  

  John Dryden
  • God
  • Mind
  • Design

• I always put in my 100 percent. Once the film is over, I look at my next, because then it's up to the audience to decide my fate.

  

  Ravi Teja
  • Film
  • Audience
  • Fate

• Talent is no accident of birth. In today's society a good many people seem to have the idea that if one is born without talent, there is nothing he can do about it; they simply resign themselves to what they consider to be their fate.

  

  Shinichi Suzuki
  • Today
  • Talent
  • Accidents

• 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.

  

  Banana Yoshimoto
  • Single
  • Mean
  • Missing

• But there's always a choice. We make our choice, and then we put the blame on fate.

  

  Binnie Kirshenbaum
  • Fate
  • Choice
  • Blame

• It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Fear
  • Fate
  • Evils

• 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
  • Important
  • Trying
  • Science

• There are things I am more interested in than the clone thing. How are they trying to find their place in the world and make sense of their lives? To what extent can they transcend their fate? As time starts to run out, what are the things that really matter?

  

  Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Time
  • World
  • Trying

• Wherever you are sent, whatever your fate, I will go with you! I shall never leave your side. All that I have done was done for love of you, and I will never abandon you, not even if dark eternity awaits.

  

  Allan Frewin Jones
  • Fate
  • Leave
  • Abandon

• To deserve this fate what have I ever done?... All I want is just a little piece of mind but the angels won't have it.

  

  Melissa Etheridge
  • Mind
  • Angel
  • Deserve

• We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

  

  William James
  • Life
  • Philosophical
  • Unendurable

• For Fate has wove the thread of life with pain, And twins ev'n from the birth are Misery and Man!

  

  Homer
  • Life
  • Pain
  • Fate

• 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.

  

  T. H. White
  • Great
  • Sea
  • Blue

• Fate is something you believe in when things are not going well. When they are, you forget it.

  

  Aubrey Menen
  • Things
  • Fate
  • Well

• It is an awful thing to get a glimpse, as one sometimes does, when the time is past, of some little, little wheel which works the whole mighty machinery of fate, and see how our destinies turn on a minute's delay or advance.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Past
  • Sometimes
  • Destiny

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