Fate Quotes
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Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time they have left.
Ingrid Bergman
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If there's any business that instructs you in the strong hand of fate, it's show business. You can plan and plan, but it's what happens to you that really determines what your career will be like.
Sam Waterston
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Life is too short to pursue every human act to its most remote consequences; 'for want of a nail, a kingdom was lost' is a commentary on fate, not the statement of a major cause of action against a blacksmith.
Antonin Scalia
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Fate has terrible power. You cannot escape it by wealth or war. No fort will keep it out, no ships outrun it.
Sophocles
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Oh, Vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of Fate are; How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are!
William Makepeace Thackeray
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By a certain fate, great acts, and great eloquence have most commonly gone hand in hand, equalling and honoring each other in the same ages.
John Milton
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I have made all the calculations; fate will do the rest.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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If there is such a thing as freedom, then there is no fate.
Imre Kertesz
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‘Fight if you wish. Deny what is before you if it comforts you. But nothing you do can change your fate.’
Christopher Paolini
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The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.
Emile Zola
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I've shared the fate of many working mothers; I felt guilty like them.
Valerie Trierweiler
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Maybe I was born to be a merchant, maybe it was fate. I don't know about that. But I know this for sure: I loved retail from the very beginning.
Sam Walton
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A fate is not a punishment.
Albert Camus
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Now I'm standing alone in a crowded roomAnd we're not speaking.And I'm dyin' to know:Is it killing youLike it's killing me?Yeah.I don't know what to say since a twist of fate, when it all broke downAnd the story of us looks a lot like a tragedy now.
Taylor Swift
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Nature, I have constantly argued in my work, is the real superpower of this godless universe. It is the ultimate disposer of human fate, randomly recarving geography over 10,000-year epochs.
Camille Paglia
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The terms of peace may be negotiated by political leaders, but the fate of peace is up to each of us.
Barack Obama
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'T is an old tale and often told;But did my fate and wish agree,Ne'er had been read, in story old,Of maiden true betray'd for gold,That loved, or was avenged, like me.
Walter Scott
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Life is a journey for us all. We all face trials. We all have ups and downs. All of us are human. But we are also the masters of our fate. We are the ones who decide how we are going to react to life.
Elizabeth Smart
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Between the mysteries of death and lifeThou standest, loving, guiding,- not explaining;We ask, and Thou art silent,- yet we gaze,And our charmed hearts forget their drear complaining;No crushing fate, no stony destiny!Thou Lamb that hast been slain, we rest in Thee.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Even in political considerations, now-a-days, you have stronger motives to feel interested in the fate of Europe than in the fate of the Central or Southern parts of America.
Lajos Kossuth
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Fate is a quantity very much like TV: an unstoppable narrative, written, produced and directed by somebody else.
Zadie Smith
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'The Sound of Things Falling' may be a page turner, but it's also a deep meditation on fate and death. Even in translation, the superb quality of Vasquez's prose is evident, captured in Anne McLean's idiomatic English version. All the novel's characters are well imagined, original and rounded.
Edmund White
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We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, never to be undone.
William James
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Anybody that wants to walk out that door and leave home for a few months and rely on themselves instead of fate might have some interesting stories to tell.
Garrett Hedlund