Fate Quotes
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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.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The fate of the soil system depends on society's willingness to intervene in the market place, and to forego some of the short-term benefits that accrue from 'mining' the soil so that soil quality and fertility can be maintained over the longer term.
Eugene Odum
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For Fate has wove the thread of life with pain,
And twins ev'n from the birth are Misery and Man!
Homer
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No one's fate is of any interest to you except your own.
Mikhail Bulgakov
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For those whom God to ruin has design'd,He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
John Dryden
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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.
Cees Nooteboom
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Fate! There is no fate. Between the thought and the success God is the only agent. Fate is not the ruler, but the servant of Providence.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Look at the fate of summer flowers, which blow at daybreak, droop ere even-song.
William Wordsworth
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It's the great soul that surrenders itself to fate, but a puny degenerate thing that struggles.
Seneca the Younger
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But what can be done, the one who loves must share the fate of the who is loved.
Mikhail Bulgakov
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After Watergate, America was a ship without a rudder. Vietnam was left to its own devices, drifting along towards its fate.
Nguyen Cao Ky
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A man, when he wishes, is the master of his fate.
Jose Ferrer
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Deep in the man sits fast his fate To mould his fortunes, mean or great.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country's fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language!
Ivan Turgenev
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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.
Barack Obama
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But if something was really important, fate made sure it somehow came back to you and gave you another chance.
Sarah Dessen
