Fate Quotes
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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.
H. G. Wells
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Fate laughs at probabilities.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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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 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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But if something was really important, fate made sure it somehow came back to you and gave you another chance.
Sarah Dessen
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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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Syria is already in the grips of a civil war, unfortunately enough, and Egypt is moving in that direction. We would like to see the Egyptian people avoid this fate.
Vladimir Putin
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Don’t believe in the fate society chose for you. Instead, carve out a new fate for yourself.
Bill Courtney
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The fate of a child is in the hands of his parents.
Shinichi Suzuki
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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
William Butler Yeats
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Ain't no man can outrun his fate.
Esi Edugyan
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A man, when he wishes, is the master of his fate.
Jose Ferrer
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An adventure is a situation where the outcome is not entirely within your control. It is up to fate, in other words
Sebastian Junger
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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.
Sigmund Freud
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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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My fate is to be President of the Republic - or leader of the opposition.
Georges Pompidou
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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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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.
Ernest Hemingway
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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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Press on! A better fate awaits thee.
Victor Hugo
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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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Heart is what drives us and determines our fate.
Isabel Allende
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You can change your fate. You can sit back, or you can go after your life and all that you want it to be.
Hilary Swank
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Fate is the same for the man who holds back, the same if he fights hard. We are all held in a single honor, the brave with the weaklings. A man dies still if he has done nothing, as the one who has done much.
Homer