Fate Quotes
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Come near, that no more blinded by man's fate, I find under the boughs of love and hate, In all poor foolish things that live a day, Eternal beauty wandering on her way.
William Butler Yeats
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Necessity and chance Approach not me, and what I will is fate.
John Milton
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Things happen. Life happens. Sometimes we draw things to us. Maybe it’s fate. I can’t tell you, Matthew. But it seems that for whatever reason, this one’s yours.
Alexandra Sokoloff
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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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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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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
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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 murder of a dozen innocent people is unquestionably a human tragedy. But that is no excuse for reacting blindly by preventing hundreds of thousands of other people from defending themselves against meeting the same fate.
Thomas Sowell
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Better to wait and yearn, and still to wait, And die at last with unappeased desire, Than live to be the jest of such a fate, For that is my conception of hell-fire.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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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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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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Second thoughts have aborted more dreams than all the difficult circumstances, overwhelming obstacles, and dangerous detours fate ever could throw at you.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
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I weave the shoes of Sorrow: Soundless shall be the footfall light In all men's ears of Sorrow, Sudden and light.
William Butler Yeats
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Fulfill thy fate! Be-do-bear-and thank God.
Philip James Bailey
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Change your plate. Change your fate.
Kris Carr
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The fate of a child is in the hands of his parents.
Shinichi Suzuki
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For man is man and master of his fate.
Alfred the Great
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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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Everyone has their own career, their own fate, and everyone writes their own story.
Alexandre Lacazette
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Fate laughs at probabilities.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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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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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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It is not every man's fate to marry the woman who loves him best...
Jane Austen