Fate Quotes
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Press on! A better fate awaits thee.
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Fate whirls on the bark, and the rough gale sweeps from the rising tide the lazy calm of thought.
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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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But what can be done, the one who loves must share the fate of the who is loved.
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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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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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Look at the fate of summer flowers, which blow at daybreak, droop ere even-song.
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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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Lucky he who has been educated to bear his fate, whatsoever it may be, by an early example of uprightness, and a childish training in honor.
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How a person masters his or her fate is more important than what that fate is.
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Life is long. Just because you don't get your chance right when you want or expect it doesn't mean it won't come. Fate doesn't punch a time clock or consult a schedule.
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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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Fate is something you believe in when things are not going well. When they are, you forget it.
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My fate is to be President of the Republic - or leader of the opposition.
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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.
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There's always more than one path, and to think otherwise is what resigns you to fate.
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Fate is the opportunity. Choice is what you do with it.
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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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Ain't no man can outrun his fate.
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How wisely fate ordain'd for human kind Calamity! which is the perfect glass, Wherein we truly see and know ourselves.
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Austerity need not be Europe's fate.
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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!
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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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Corliss had never once considered the fate of library books. She'd never wondered how many books go unread. She loved books. How could she not worry about the unread? She felt like a disorganized scholar, an inconsiderate lover, an abusive mother, and a cowardly soldier.
