Fate Quotes

2346 Fate quotes by 1440 unique authors

Statesman only talk of fate when they have blundered — Benito Mussolini
A great novel is concerned primarily with the interior lives of its characters as they respond to the inconvenient narratives that fate imposes on them.… — Richard Schickel
To have loved, to have been made happy thus, / What better fate has life in store for us? — Arthur Symons
We have all experienced times when, instead of being buffeted by anonymous forces, we do feel in control of our actions, masters of our own… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
They are raised on high that they may be dashed to pieces with a greater fall. — Claudius Claudianus
No power or virtue of man could ever have deserved that what has been fated should not have taken place. — Ammianus Marcellinus
We seal our fate with the choices we make. — Gloria Estefan
Preparation is not only about managing external risks, but about limiting the likelihood that you'll unwittingly add to them. When you're the author of your… — Chris Hadfield
Despite elections and the experience of post-Soviet personal freedoms by the Russian people, the fate of democracy in Russia is perhaps more ambiguous now than… — Richard Lugar
Storytelling is the only studio movie where the censorship is perfectly clear, the only studio movie with a big red box covering up a shot.… — Todd Solondz
It's just a freak of fate that I'm paid to write, not paying to print my own books - but I'd be doing it anyway:… — Iain Sinclair
I had been thinking about how greatness always has a hand from luck or fate. That no one ever achieves anything with their will alone.… — Eric Avery
Art is manipulation, the management of material, the directing of fate... Who does that directing? — Eric Maisel
Our hour is marked, and no one can claim a moment of life beyond what fate has predestined. — Napoleon Bonaparte
They... who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate. — Matthew Arnold
Trouble is the next best thing to enjoyment; there is no fate in the world so horrible as to have no share in either its… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
No one is so accursed by fate, no one so utterly desolate, but some heart though unknown responds unto his own. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
In studying the fate of our forest king, we have thus far considered the action of purely natural causes only; but, unfortunately, man is in… — John Muir
In the lexicon of youth which fate reserves for a bright manhood, there is no such word as fail. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
I never have held death in contempt, though in the course of my explorations I have oftentimes felt that to meet one's fate on a… — John Muir
The fate of a Nation may sometimes depend upon the position of a fortress. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, inciting at once to work and rest! Days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand… — John Muir
Long ago it was said that 'one half of the world does not know how the other half lives.' That was true then. It did… — Jacob August Riis
I want nothing to do with any religion concerned with keeping the masses satisfied to live in hunger, filth, and ignorance. I want nothing to… — Jawaharlal Nehru
We only want that which is given naturally to all peoples of the world, to be masters of our own fate, not of others, and… — Golda Meir

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