Fate Quotes
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Fate and history have a similar feeling. They are weird mirrors to each other.
Alexander Chee
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The fate of the Empire rests on this enterprise. Every man must devote himself totally to the task in hand.
Isoroku Yamamoto
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Fate rules the affairs of men, with no recognizable order.
Seneca the Younger
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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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Woman submits to her fate; man makes his.
Emile Gaboriau
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Fate is the opportunity. Choice is what you do with it.
Karen Rose
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We hasten to alienate the very fates we intended to woo.
Vladimir Nabokov
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Change your plate. Change your fate.
Kris Carr
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Everyone has their own career, their own fate, and everyone writes their own story.
Alexandre Lacazette
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Fate steals along with silent tread, Found oftenest in what least we dread; Frowns in the storm with angry brow, But in the sunshine strikes the blow.
William Cowper
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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.
Daniel Kehlmann
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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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I don't believe in fate," he said carefully, "but... I do believe everything happens for a reason. That there is some plan, some meaning to this darkness we live in.
Julie Kagawa
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The fate of a child is in the hands of his parents.
Shinichi Suzuki
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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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For man is man and master of his fate.
Alfred the Great
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One ought to avoid all unnecessary worry and exciting thoughts, and to cultivate a firm tranquility of mind. Melancholy reflections will in no way influence fate, whereas one may weaken the constitution by the waste of energy while indulging in them.
George Hackenschmidt
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We sailed away on a winter's dayWith fate as malleable as clayBut ships are fallible, I sayAnd the nautical, as all things, fades.
Joanna Newsom
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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.
Winifred Holtby
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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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If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.
Tacitus
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Fulfill thy fate! Be-do-bear-and thank God.
Philip James Bailey
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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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Memory is a paradise out of which fate cannot drive us.
Alexandre Dumas-fils