A millstone and the human heart are driven ever round, If they have nothing else to grind, they must themselves be ground. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Destiny isn't immutable. You can change your fate. But I'd say the only way to do it is with hard, intelligent work… — Robert Paul Weston Copy Share Image
Happiness is the fortitude of positivity and destiny, twined together with hope and decorated with the untimely swirls of fate — Cristina Orante Copy Share Image
We, peopling the void air, Make Gods to whom to impute The ills we ought to bear; With God and Fate to… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
“No mortal ever knows happiness and good fortune all the way to the end. Each one is born with his bitterness waiting… — Euripides Copy Share Image
I was born a human but this was an accident of fate…since childhood I’ve been captivated by the study of robots and… — Kevin Warwick Copy Share Image
“Thank you for keeping me in this world when fate seemed determined to drag me to the next. I owe you a… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
It is my melancholy fate to like so many people I profoundly disagree with and often heartily dislike people who agree with… — Mary Kingsley Copy Share Image
Because we are free we can never be indifferent to the fate of freedom elsewhere. Our moral sense dictates a clearcut preference… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is not-being that is the true state, and all our dream of life is inexistent; but, if so, we feel… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Whatever you do, do it with purpose. Being focused is not something to be ashamed of. It is something to be proud… — Najwa Zebian Copy Share Image
“Thinking more deeply into things usually left alone helps us to find bubbles of truth and clarity. When we realize we have… — Kayla Severson Copy Share Image
It is only when our fate hangs in the balance, when our very life depends on something, that we see whether or… — Margaret George Copy Share Image
“His mother, Zach explained, taught the Romantics and named her sons accordingly, extravagantly, tempting fate. She plays a terrible game of names.… — Emma Richler Copy Share Image
Books may not change our suffering, books may not protect us from evil, books may not tell us what is good or… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
I want you to be happy, you're my best friend. But it's so hard to let you go now with all that… — Amanda Marshall Copy Share Image
The fate of unborn millions will now depend, under God, on the courage and conduct of this army. We have, therefore, to… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Children's books are written for upbringing...but upbringing is a great thing; it decides the fate of the human being. — Vissarion Belinsky Copy Share Image
We can now recognize that the fate of the soul is the fate of the social order; that if the spirit within… — Theodore Roszak Copy Share Image
Age is just the amount of time that you have been on earth, what really matters is where you are going after… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but mind; which experienced a similar fate… — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
“Do you believe in fate?” I ask. “What’s that again?” “That everything is decided. You’re just—you know—living it out.” — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
“Some people think destiny is something you cannot escape, such as death or a curdled cheesecake, both of which always turn up… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
Language: the one tool that enables us to grasp hold of our lives and transcend our fate by understanding it. — Molly Haskell Copy Share Image
“Fate, the monstrous scene-shifter, was setting the stage for the death of Uncle Fred, the elderly man.” — George Bellairs Copy Share Image
Everything happens for a reason, luck and fate are the same thing. It just depends on how you look at life. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are people who recall my father as a saint and a monster. I'm quite sure I will share the same fate. — Franz Wright Copy Share Image
“But there will be no redemption for me. I will become the most unmerciful of murderers. I accept my fate.” — Heather Day Gilbert Copy Share Image
“I knew that I was talented. I was positive about that. I wasn’t sure exactly what I was talented at, but I… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
No one know who is the One for them. Only time that can prove it. Only future that able to reveal who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Will we confront climate change in time or will we let fossil fuel companies determine our fate? This is a fight we… — Frances Beinecke 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
The Fates, like an absent-minded printer, seldom allow a single line to stand perfect and unmarred. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“The wind drops us where it will and there we have the choice to either fight our fate or grow roots and… — Jayne Castel Copy Share Image
“. . . is it better to throw yourself head first and laughing into the holy rage calling your name?” — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
If something is meant to go elsewhere, it will never come your way, but if it is yours by destiny, from you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We have allowed corporations to decide the fate of the cities. We hardly speak of democratic development. — Glenn Ford Copy Share Image
“We have no control over fate and history, but we can control how we conduct ourselves in this life.” — Jessica Zafra Copy Share Image
Everywhere man blames nature and fate, yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character, and passions, his mistakes, and… — John Green Copy Share Image
Give up the dream that Love may trick the fates To live again somewhere beyond the gleam Of dying stars, or shatter… — Don Marquis Copy Share Image