Fate Quotes
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Ain't no man can outrun his fate.
Esi Edugyan
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My fate is to be President of the Republic - or leader of the opposition.
Georges Pompidou
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I do not believe in that word Fate. It is the refuge of every self-confessed failure.
Andrew Soutar
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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.
Sarah Dessen
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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.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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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
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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.
Robert Hunter Grateful Dead
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Austerity need not be Europe's fate.
Francois Hollande
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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.
Thomas Hood
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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.
Bill Vaughan
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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
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Yes, it is Europe, from the Atlantic to the Urals, it is Europe, it is the whole of Europe, that will decide the fate of the world.
Charles de Gaulle
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Fate is something you believe in when things are not going well. When they are, you forget it.
Aubrey Menen
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There's always more than one path, and to think otherwise is what resigns you to fate.
Allison Winn Scotch
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Toil is the lot of all, and bitter woe The fate of many.
Homer
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Though fear should lend him pinions like the wind, yet swifter fate will seize him from behind.
Jonathan Swift
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Fate is the opportunity. Choice is what you do with it.
Karen Rose
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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.
Banana Yoshimoto
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If you are blessed with great fortunes. . . you may love your fate. But your fate never guarantees the security of those great fortunes. As soon as you realize your helplessness at the mercy of your fate, you are again in despair. Thus the hatred of fate can be generated not only by misfortunes, but also by great fortunes. Your hatred of fate is at the same time your hatred of your self. You hate your self for being so helpless under the crushing power of fate.
T. K. Seung
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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.
Ethel Smyth
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Fate whirls on the bark, and the rough gale sweeps from the rising tide the lazy calm of thought.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear His hopes 'bove wisdom, grace and fear: And you all know, security Is mortals' chiefest enemy.
William Shakespeare
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The ways of fate are indeed hard to understand. If there is not some compensation hereafter, then the world is a cruel jest.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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I'm a big believer in fate, and it's working out well so far.
Jodie Comer