Fate Quotes - page 3

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature. (Alexander Pope)
That day she put our heads together, Fate had her imagination about her, Your head so much concerned with outer, Mine with inner, weather. View quote
Robert Frost
It did not matter, after all. He was only one man. One man's fate is not important. 'If it is not, what is' He could not endure those remembered words. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate. View quote
Samuel Johnson
History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
Yes, it is Europe, from the Atlantic to the Urals, it is Europe, it is the whole of Europe, that will decide the fate of the world. View quote
Charles de Gaulle
The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, And heavily in clouds brings on the day, The great, the important day, big with the fate Of Cato and of Rome. View quote
Joseph Addison
Of no distemper, of no blast he died, But fell like autumn fruit that mellow'd long, Even wonder'd at, because he dropp'd no sooner. Fate seem'd to wind him up for fourscore years, Yet freshly ran he on ten winters more Till like a clock worn out with eating time, The wheels of weary life at last stood still. View quote
John Dryden
For those whom God to ruin has design'd, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind. View quote
John Dryden
Where does a story truly begin? In life, there are seldom clear-cut beginnings, those moments when we can, in looking back, say that everything started. Yet there are moments when fate intersects with our daily lives, setting in motion a sequence of events whose outcome we could never have foreseen. View quote
Nicholas Sparks
What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate. (Donald Trump)
If you can't change your fate, change your attitude. View quote
Amy Tan
We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that's like saying you can never change your fate. View quote
Amy Tan
I discovered that maybe it was fate all along, that faith was just an illusion that somehow you're in control. View quote
Amy Tan
Coincidences are the scars of fate. View quote
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Fate steals along with silent tread, Found oftenest in what least we dread Frowns in the storm with angry brow, But in the sunshine strikes the blow. View quote
William Cowper
Fate laughs at probabilities. View quote
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late. View quote
Daniel Defoe
When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate. View quote
Carl Jung
People without firmness of character love to make up a fate for themselves; that relieves them of the necessity of having their own will and of taking responsibility for themselves. View quote
Ivan Turgenev
The wisest man could ask no more of fate Than to be simple, modest, manly, true, Safe from the many, honored by the few Nothing to court in Church, or World, or State, But inwardly in secret to be great. (James Russell Lowell)
In Lifes small things be resolute and great To keep thy muscle trained Knowst thou when Fate Thy measure takes or when shell say to thee, I find thee worthy do this deed for me. View quote
James Russell Lowell
The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The chamber where the good man meets his fate Is privileg'd beyond the common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of heaven. View quote
Edward Young