Fate Quotes

2346 Fate quotes by 1440 unique authors

All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed. — Sean O'Casey
Borders had lousy management and made bad corporate decisions, so its fate is less like a terrible accident than a slow-motion slide into a ditch,… — Susan Orlean
American policy seems to be wed to a perpetual state of war. Why? History shows that the world will always be in flux or turmoil,… — Camille Paglia
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… — Camille Paglia
Can you make a mistake and miss your fate? — Sarah Jessica Parker
I believe in luck and fate and I believe in karma, that the energy you put out in the world comes back to meet you. — Chris Pine
Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist. — Plutarch
No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune. — Plutarch
A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature. — Alexander Pope
But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state? — Alexander Pope
We have become makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets. — Karl Popper
Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out til too late that he's been playing with two queens all along. — Terry Pratchett
Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no… — Terry Pratchett
I'm eternally grateful to fate and the citizens of Russia that they've trusted me to be the head of the Russian government. — Vladimir Putin
No one wants the United Nations to suffer the fate of the League of Nations, which collapsed because it lacked real leverage. This is possible… — Vladimir Putin
I don't believe in fate or destiny. I believe in various degrees of hatred, paranoia, and abandonment. However much of that gets heaped upon you… — Henry Rollins
It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals. — Bertrand Russell
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
In his first 100 days, Mr. Obama has put the fate of his presidency in the hands of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority… — Karl Rove
I'm just steadily building myself up as Kelly Rowland, not just Kelly Rowland of Destiny's Child, which is a blessing to be able to do… — Kelly Rowland
Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of… — Salman Rushdie
The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his… — Bertrand Russell
All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure. — Jean-Paul Sartre
When I need a word and do not find it in French, I select it from other tongues, and the reader has either to understand… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny. — Friedrich Schiller

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