A man who has once perceived, however temporarily and however briefly, what makes greatness of soul, can no longer be happy if… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The noble person who has eaten of his lord's bounty should die in his lord's battles; to return to one's home dead… — Zhou Yu Copy Share Image
But Chrysippus, Posidonius, Zeno, and Boëthus say, that all things are produced by fate. And fate is a connected cause of existing… — Diogenes Laertius Copy Share Image
Old noted oak! I saw thee in a mood Of vague indifference; and yet with me Thy memory, like thy fate, hath… — John Clare Copy Share Image
“The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
I am a German nationalist, that means I am openly committed to my Volkstrum. All of my thoughts and actions belong to… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
The idea that anyone can use drugs and escape a horrible fate is anathema to these idiots. I predict in the near… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Things are where things are, and, as fate has willed, So shall they be fulfilled. — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
“The charming king of Arilland had fallen in love at first sight. There was no question he would soon take this beautiful… — Alethea Kontis Copy Share Image
...This is the first time I have met someone who seeks out people and who sees beyond...We never look beyond our assumptions… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“Our destination isn't clear. All I know is that I want to get there together. The Unknown is scary. I'll always have… — Susane Colasanti Copy Share Image
“Captain?" "Yeah?" "Do you think it was destiny that brought us together?" He squinted and, after a thoughtful moment, shook his head.… — Marissa Meyer Copy Share Image
Do you believe in fate?" "I guess, but . . . its more about creatng the life you want so you can… — Susane Colasanti Copy Share Image
[S]uppose the mind of [a] friend of humanity were clouded over with his own grief, extinguishing all sympathetic participation in the fate… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The ways of fate are indeed hard to understand. If there is not some compensation hereafter, then the world is a cruel… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
A strong belief in fate is the worst kind of slavery; on the other hand, there is a comfort in the thought… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
People who were meant to be together will always find their way back to each other. They make detours in life, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The G.O.P. is desperately seeking someone who can save the party from the fate of nominating Mitt Romney. But every time a… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
Three were the fates. Poverty that chains; gray drudgery that grinds the hope away, and gaping ignorance that starves the soul. — Edwin Markham Copy Share Image
“There's no short-cut in life but with right knowledge, you can fast-track things to come to pass.” — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha Copy Share Image
“Your existance hinders on no one but yourself. Only you can write your destiny. Fate is a mere parlor trick designed to… — Tempest C. Avery Copy Share Image
As generations come and go, Their arts, their customs, ebb and flow; Fate, fortune, sweep strong powers away, And feeble, of themselves,… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
An evil fate has deprived me of the full use of my right hand, so that I am not able to play… — Robert Schumann Copy Share Image
Over and over victims are blamed for their assaults. And when we imply that victims bring on their own fates - whether… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Come near, that no more blinded by man's fate, I find under the boughs of love and hate, In all poor foolish… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Tis weak and vicious people who cast the blame on Fate. The right use of Fate is to bring up our conduct… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“family is a group of people thrown together by fate who become weirder and weirder until nobody else can understand them.” — Liam Pieper Copy Share Image
Dress your best on your execution day. Be extremely courteous to your assistant when you lose money. Try not to blame others… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
I wouldn't change any part of my life that I've lived up until now. I kind of believe in fate a little… — Joshua James Alphonse Franceschi Copy Share Image
The works of present life are more important that the whole and entire reliance on wholesale blind fate. — Dayananda Saraswati Copy Share Image
“How bitter they cry in need, those who refuse to help others in trouble!” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
I can imagine few worse fates than walking around for the rest of one's life wearing a typo. — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
“We're all just marionettes, Ashline," Eve said softly. "Dangling, dancing, waiting. You can pretend like you pull your own strings, but in… — Karsten Knight Copy Share Image
I think some orator commenting upon that fate said that though the winds of heaven might whistle around an Englishman's cottage, the… — John James Ingalls Copy Share Image
I don’t discount a magical hand of fate. I am an actor, after all, and a Shakespearian, no less. But it can’t… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image