Fates Quotes

112 quotes by 85 authors

All fates are â€˜worse than deathâ€™. — Evelyn Waugh
Trench says a wild man is a willed man. Well, then, a man of will who does what he wills or wishes, a man of… — Henry David Thoreau
We need to return to learning about the land by being on the land, or better, by being in the thick of it. That is… — Gary Paul Nabhan
The Fates, like an absent-minded printer, seldom allow a single line to stand perfect and unmarred. — George Santayana
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
We have chosen to write the biography of our disease because we love it platonically - as Amy Lowell loved Keats - and have sought… — Hans Zinsser
I'm an action player. I like to be aggressive. I don't like to be on the run. I like to feel like I have the… — Eugene Jarvis
Today, as never before, the fates of men are so intimately linked to one another that a disaster for one is a disaster for everybody. — Natalia Ginzburg
Whatever happens, it happens because we choose for it. We decide our fates. — Spartacus
We fight in honourable fashion for the good of mankind; fearless of the future, unheeding of our individual fates, with unflinching hearts and undimmed eyes;… — Theodore Roosevelt
Thatâ€™s the problem with fiction â€” or the charm, if you want. Even mediocre plots have a way of sinking their hooks into you, until… — Charles McGrath
Unlike most wars, which make rotten fiction in themselves - all plot and no characters, or made-up characters - Vietnam seems to be the perfect… — Wilfrid Sheed
The leader is always alone before bad fates. — Charles de Gaulle
The Fates are just: they give us but our own; Nemesis ripens what our hands have sown. — John Greenleaf Whittier
They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates. — D. H. Lawrence
We are all subject to the fates. But we must all act as if we are not, or die of despair...death will sweep through all… — Philip Pullman
Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings. — William Shakespeare
I can imagine few worse fates than walking around for the rest of one's life wearing a typo. — Anne Fadiman
History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale… — Winston Churchill
The fates lead him who will; him who won't they drag. — Joseph Campbell

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