Fate Quotes - page 13

The tragedy of Karbala decided not only the fate of the caliphate, but of the Mohammedan kingdoms long after the Caliphate had waned and disappeared. (William Muir)
This principle is old, but true as fate,- Kings may love treason, but the traitor hate. View quote
Thomas Dekker
If fate is a millstone, we are the grist. There is nothing we can do. So I wish for strength. If I cannot protect them from the wheel, then give me a strong blade, and enough strength, to shatter fate. View quote
Tite Kubo
There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action. View quote
Herbert N. Casson
If you're too happy about anything, fate usually gives you a good sock in the jaw and knocks you down. View quote
Madeleine L'Engle
Cruel blows of fate call for extreme kindness in the family circle. View quote
Dodie Smith
Many a man is given what is intended for another, but no man is given another's fate. View quote
Sigrid Undset
The hand of fate had dipped into the ragbag of humanity. View quote
Jean Shepherd
Today the fate of humankind is even more crucially linked than ever before. The boundaries between the problems of 'others' and 'our' problems are being increasingly erased. View quote
Janez Drnovsek
One-third of our people were dangerously ill, getting worse hourly, and we felt sure of meeting the same fate, with death as our only prospect, which in such a country was much worse yet. View quote
Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca
Without a doubt. I believe in fate the same way others believe in God. I do believe in fate. (Angeles Mastretta)
Many other countries in this world are in a difficult situation, and all the Thai people are probably worried about the fate of Thailand: whether the country would survive or not. View quote
Bhumibol Adulyadej
I'm a very big believer in fate. View quote
Christopher Atkins
I truly, truly believe that I was going in that direction and all of a sudden fate took me and put me here. It's like something else has other plans for me. View quote
Christopher Atkins
Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things. View quote
Fergus Henderson
In my writing with Extreme, there are heavy themes. The cover photo has me with a gun to my neck. I am not advocating suicide. I am taking the philosophy that man is the measure of his own fate. View quote
Gary Cherone
There are good people who are dealt a bad hand by fate, and bad people who live long, comfortable, privileged lives. A small twist of fate can save or end a life; random chance is a permanent, powerful player in each of our lives, and in human history as well. View quote
Jeff Greenfield
Muslim delegates concerned about rights in Palestine could have brought their enthusiasm closer to home by addressing the fate of black Christians being slaughtered and enslaved in the Sudan. View quote
Jacob T. Schwartz
I'm a little bit superstitious, and I think that just comes from playing hockey. I won't avoid the number thirteen. A big one for me, though, is walking under a ladder. I've always felt like that's tempting fate. That's just throwing it right in their face. Check me out. I just walked under a ladder. What are you going to do about it? View quote
James Badge Dale
I wonder whether being a scientist's daughter makes you so conflicted about free will and fate. View quote
Lucy Hawking
I'm not a big believer in a thing called luck. I believe it has a lot to do with fate and just really having a vision of the way you would see your life. (Marla Maples)
It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art. View quote
Margaret Oliphant
So I constantly play women who are damaged and out of touch, who are seeking without knowing, or knowing without the skills to transform their lives. But then, that's really the fate of many women today. View quote
Olympia Dukakis
France cannot be destroyed. She is an old country who, despite her misfortunes, has, and always will have, thanks to her past, a tremendous prestige in the world, whatever the fate inflicted upon her. View quote
Pierre Laval
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. Movie adaptations of these monumental fictions often fail because they become mere exercises in interior decoration. View quote
Richard Schickel