Fate Quotes
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Necessity and chance Approach not me, and what I will is fate.
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How a person masters his or her fate is more important than what that fate is.
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Pluck up your hearts, since fate still rests our friend.
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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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I do not believe in that word Fate. It is the refuge of every self-confessed failure.
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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.
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I have often noticed that when Fate has a phenomenal run of ill luck in store for you, she begins by dropping a rare piece of good fortune into your lap, thereby enhancing the artistic effect of the sequel.
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Austerity need not be Europe's fate.
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Don't waste the breath to save your face, When you have done your best, And even more is asked of you, Let fate decide the rest.
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What is a modern poet's fate? / To write his thoughts upon a slate; / The critic spits on what is done, / Gives it a wipe - and all is gone.
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You can't fight your fate...It is predestined.
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It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.
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It's the great soul that surrenders itself to fate, but a puny degenerate thing that struggles.
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The worst death for anyone is to lose the center of his being, the thing he really is. Retirement is the filthiest word in the language. Whether by choice or by fate, to retire from what you do - and makes you what you are - is to back up into the grave.
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The noble person who has eaten of his lord's bounty should die in his lord's battles; to return to one's home dead and wrapped in a horse's hide is a happy fate. Am I the sort of people to bring to nought the grand designs of my country?
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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.
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Fate is something you believe in when things are not going well. When they are, you forget it.
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Fate already warned us to pack it in. We just didn’t hear it in time.
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Next Monday the Convention in Virginia will assemble; we have still good hopes of its adoption here: though by no great plurality of votes. South Carolina has probably decided favourably before this time. The plot thickens fast. A few short weeks will determine the political fate of America for the present generation, and probably produce no small influence on the happiness of society through a long succession of ages to come.
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If I may bend your ear for a moment, I like Terry Pratchett. I like footnotes. I like footnotes even when they are not as entertaining as a Pratchett footnote, even when they are in the middle of a book on evolutionary biology and briefly explain the Red Queen hypothesis or the fate of the Stephen's Island Wren or how many bunnies can dance on the back of Australia. Footnotes fill me with a very mild glee. The endnote simply does not compare.
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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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All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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It's all written out, you know. Everything is fate. All written out in Heaven, or written out in Hell.
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'You are certain you can keep the truth from her?' 'Sure,' Ed said confidently. 'I know I can.' 'All right.' The Old Man nodded slowly. 'I will send you back. But you must tell no one.' He swelled visibly. 'Remember: you will eventually come back to me - everyone does, in the end - and your fate will not be enviable.'
