Fate Quote by Virgil Download Open image ““The gods thought otherwise. Dis aliter visum.”” — Virgil ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fate God Irony
“Look at me. This is nobility in a man: to bear what falls from the gods and not say No.” — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
“They talked about God. They had no picture in their minds of some mist steaming upward: rather of strong, skillful hands thrust down to… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“She sees the image of God in human beings, he thought, even when they are not at their best.” — Ariel Sabar Copy Share Image
“...let the gods distinguish between the wiched and the merely incompetent.” — Glen Cook Copy Share Image
“Facilis descensus Averni: noctes atque dies patet atri ianua Ditis; sed revocare gradium superasque evadere ad auras. hoc opus, hic labor est.” — Virgil Copy Share Image
The descent to the infernal regions is easy enough, but to retrace one's steps, and reach the air above, there's the rub. — Virgil Copy Share Image
“..and why the winter suns so rush to bathe themselves in the sea and what slows down the nights to a long lingering crawl...” — Virgil Copy Share Image
“forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit. and perhaps it will be pleasing to have remembered these things one day” — Virgil Copy Share Image
Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things. — Fergus Henderson Copy Share Image
When you have counted eighty years and more, Time and Fate will batter at your door; But if you should survive to be a… — Khushwant Singh Copy Share Image
“To be a Sufi is to detach from fixed ideas and from preconceptions; and not to try to avoid what is your lot.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
Man blindly works the will of fate. [Ger., Blindlings that er blos den Willen des Geschickes.] — Christoph Martin Wieland Copy Share Image
Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind. — Horace Copy Share Image
Real chessplayers think about chess more or less 24 hours a day. It is a passion and a fate that one has to live… — Simen Agdestein Copy Share Image
Holy shadows of the dead, I'm not to blame for your cruel and bitter fate, but the accursed rivalry which brought sister nations and… — Alexander the Great Copy Share Image
“In that instant it all seemed to come clear to him- it came in a grisly flash of light, and he realized that the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Fate and future both are servant to the determined, for they are nothing but creation of human determination.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“I’ve always seen this in you, ever since you were a little girl — this hunger to love other people into their highest selves… — Jennifer Elisabeth Copy Share Image
