Fate Quotes - page 11

I do not doubt that it would be easier for fate to take away your suffering than it would for me. But you will see for yourself that much has been gained if we succeed in turning your hysterical misery into common unhappiness. (Sigmund Freud)
Not the swart Pariah in some Indian grove, Lone, lean, and hunted by his brother's hate, Hath drunk so deep the cup of bitter fate As that poor wretch who cannot, cannot love: He bears a load which nothing can remove, A killing, withering weight. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Till the Future dares Forget the Past, his fate and fame shall be An echo and a light unto eternity! View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate. View quote
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
‘Fight if you wish. Deny what is before you if it comforts you. But nothing you do can change your fate.' View quote
Christopher Paolini
The fate of the soil system depends on society's willingness to intervene in the market place, and to forego some of the short-term benefits that accrue from 'mining' the soil so that soil quality and fertility can be maintained over the longer term. View quote
Eugene Odum
The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the disenchantment of the world. Precisely the ultimate and most sublime values have retreated from public life either into the transcendental realm of mystic life or into the brotherliness of direct and personal human relations. It is not accidental that our greatest art is intimate and not monumental. View quote
Max Weber
We can say with some assurance that, although children may be the victims of fate, they will not be the victims of our neglect. View quote
John F. Kennedy
There are indications because of new inventions, that 10, 15, or 20 nations will have a nuclear capacity, including Red China, by the end of the Presidential office in 1964. This is extremely serious... I think the fate not only of our own civilization, but I think the fate of world and the future of the human race, is involved in preventing a nuclear war. View quote
John F. Kennedy
I do not believe in a fate that will fall on us no matter what we do. I do believe in a fate that will fall on us if we do nothing. View quote
Ronald Reagan
There is an odd synchronicity in the way parallel lives veer to touch one another, change direction, and then come close again and again until they connect and hold for whatever it was that fate intended to happen. (Ann Rule)
I don't trust society to protect us, I have no intention of placing my fate in the hands of men whose only qualification is that they managed to con a block of people to vote for them. View quote
Mario Puzo
I generally wade in blind and trust to fate and instinct to see me through. View quote
Peter Straub
She had to go on this quest. The fate of the world might depend on it. But part of him wanted to say: Forget the world. He didn't want to be without her. View quote
Rick Riordan
Think long and hard about how you proceed, Nico di Angelo. You cannot lie to Cupid. If you let your anger rule you... well, your fate will be even sadder then mine. View quote
Rick Riordan
Strange things conspire when one tries to cheat fate. View quote
Rick Riordan
Rabbits need dignity and above all the will to accept their fate. View quote
Richard Adams
It makes me believe in fate. In most cases, the readings where I've been really bad have usually been the ones where I got the part. View quote
Robin Wright
When two people are meant to be together, they will be together. It's fate. View quote
Sara Gruen
What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks. View quote
Wade Davis
A human being without the proper empathy or feeling is the same as an android built so as to lack it, either by design or mistake. We mean, basically, someone who does not care about the fate which his fellow living creatures fall victim to; he stands detached, a spectator, acting out by his indifference John Donne's theorem that "No man is an island," but giving that theorem a twist: that which is a mental and a moral island is not a man. (Philip K. Dick)
No structure, even an artificial one, enjoys the process of entropy. It is the ultimate fate of everything, and everything resists it. View quote
Philip K. Dick
Can anyone alter fate? All of us combined...or one great figure...or someone strategically placed, who happens to be in the right spot. Chance. Accident. And our lives, our world, hanging on it. View quote
Philip K. Dick
Was it fate? Was it destiny?" "I think it was Alan Blunt. View quote
Anthony Horowitz
I am the god Apostolos. The Harbinger of Telikos. The Final Fate of all. Beloved son of Apollymi the Great Destroyer. My will makes the will of the universe. [Apostolos / Acheron Parthenopaeus]. View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon