Fate Quotes
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A man, when he wishes, is the master of his fate.
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As for Walter—he was a man constantly beset by tiny pinpricks of fate.
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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.
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But if something was really important, fate made sure it somehow came back to you and gave you another chance.
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I know that nothing comes to pass but what God appoints; our fate is decreed, and things do not happen by chance, but every man's portion of joy and sorrow is predetermined.
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This has ever been the fate of energy in security; it takes to art and to eroticism, and then comes languor and decay.
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Necessity and chance Approach not me, and what I will is fate.
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Austerity need not be Europe's fate.
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Fate laughs at probabilities.
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How a person masters his or her fate is more important than what that fate is.
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All you need to do is write truly and not care about what the fate of it is.
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Trapped. Sinking. Can't be myself. Made into what other people expect. Is that everyone's fate? Were the great individualists the products of their friends who wanted a great individualist as a friend?
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No one's fate is of any interest to you except your own.
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Toil is the lot of all, and bitter woe The fate of many.
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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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Change your plate. Change your 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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So the fact that there's someone who's planning what happens to the characters, writing it down, means that the characters always have a fate. And when we think about fate, we tend think of it as the thing we would have if we were literary characters, that is, if there were somebody out there, writing us.
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My fate is to be President of the Republic - or leader of the opposition.
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If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.
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Fate and history have a similar feeling. They are weird mirrors to each other.
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Life flows on over death as water closes over a stone dropped into a pool. ... Fate is certain; death is certain; but the courage and nobility of men and women matter more than these.
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I do not doubt that it would be easier for fate to take away your suffering than it would for me. But you will see for yourself that much has been gained if we succeed in turning your hysterical misery into common unhappiness.
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Even the wisest man grows tense With some sort of violence Before he can accomplish fate, Know his work or choose his mate. Poet and sculptor, do the work, Nor let the modish painter shirk
