Fate Quotes

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Men see things late, and it may be that at times an evil fate drives them on. — Bruce Catton
Luck or tragedy, some people get runs. Then of course there are those who divide it even, good and bad, but we never hear of… — John Steinbeck
As for the spirit of poverty, I do not remember any moment when it was not in me, although only to that unhappily small extent… — Simone Weil
Change your plate. Change your fate. — Kris Carr
As you go through life, there are thousands of little forks in the road, and there are a few really big forks-those moments of reckoning,… — Lee Iacocca
Fate is written in the face. — Federico Fellini
He should be envied Who when his strength is spent lays down his life. Old age reserves a melancholy fate For noble souls before their… — Pierre Corneille
We were that generation called silent, but we were silent neither, as some thought, because we shared the period's official optimism nor, as others thought,… — Joan Didion
Revolutions are not made by fate but by men. — Jacob Bronowski
The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us. — Geoffrey Chaucer
Fortune loves to give bedroom slippers to people with wooden legs, and gloves to those with no hands. — Theophile Gautier
He who asks fortune-tellers the future unwittingly forfeits an inner intimation of coming events that is a thousand times more exact than anything they may… — Walter Benjamin
See how the Fates their gifts allot, For A is happy-B is not. Yet B is worthy, I dare say, Of more prosperity than A. — W. S. Gilbert
Faith means that a man should regard any disaster simply as a fate-determined blow which must be endured. — Anwar Sadat
In the Bible, fate was often presented as the handmaiden of morality: sin was succeeded by misfortune, righteousness by prosperity, with reward and punishment instrumental… — Israel Shenker
I don't want to put my fate in country music fans; I'm too stubborn. — Natalie Maines
I didn't fall in love with you. I walked into love with you, with my eyes wide open, choosing to take every step along the… — Kiersten White
The biographies of great artists make it abundantly clear that the creative urge is often so imperious that it battens on their humanity and yokes… — Carl Jung
If you can stand to wait 24 hours before you decide the fate of what you have written - either good or bad - you're… — Lynda Barry
I think we all have our own mission, duty, fate in life so for me somehow I think I am always walking on the edge… — Bai Ling
If your awareness was strong enough, you could change the fate of a whole world without ever leaving your room. — Frederick Lenz
Sometimes it seems that the fate of the world is decided entirely in the ether of electronic communications and corporate backroom deals. — Rebecca Solnit
Narcissism and Christianity have little in common, yet the Romantic paradigm of artistic creativity, particularly in light of subsequent Freudian ideas, has tended to foster… — John Walford
Be the exceptional being who separates themselves from the herd and the fate of the herd. — Frederick Lenz
Fate makes us family. choice makes us friends. — Mary Anne Radmacher

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