Fate Quotes - page 4

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. (Edward Young)
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate. View quote
Vincent van Gogh
Here's a sigh to those who love me, And a smile to those who hate; And, whatever sky's above me, Here's a heart for every fate. View quote
Lord Byron
My most profound confidence is however based upon the fact that at the head of Germany there stands a man by his entire development, his desires, and striving can only have been destined by fate to lead our people into a brighter future. View quote
Alfred Jodl
The fate of the architect is the strangest of all. How often he expends his whole soul, his whole heart and passion, to produce buildings into which he himself may never enter. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but mind; which experienced a similar fate from the hand of Mr. Hume in 1737. View quote
Sydney Smith
'Lambe them, lads lambe them' a cant phrase of the time derived from the fate of Dr. Lambe, an astrologer and quack, who was knocked on the head by the rabble in Charles the First's time. View quote
Walter Scott
'T is an old tale and often told But did my fate and wish agree, Ne'er had been read, in story old, Of maiden true betray'd for gold, That loved, or was avenged, like me. View quote
Walter Scott
Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer. View quote
Immanuel Kant
That's Anil's path. She grows up in Sri Lanka, goes and gets educated abroad, and through fate or chance gets brought back by the Human Rights Commission to investigate war crimes. (Michael Ondaatje)
In the first instance, therefore, global terrorism created a kind of global community sharing a common fate, something we had previously considered impossible. View quote
Ulrich Beck
It is increasingly clear that the fate of the universe will come to depend more and more on individuals as the bungling of bureaucracy permeates every corner of our existence. View quote
Edna O'Brien
My fate is to be President of the Republic - or leader of the opposition. View quote
Georges Pompidou
I think we are bound to, and by, nature. We may want to deny this connection and try to believe we control the external world, but every time there's a snowstorm or drought, we know our fate is tied to the world around us. View quote
Alice Hoffman
History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our own? View quote
Christian Lous Lange
Just because Fate doesn't deal you the right cards, it doesn't mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential. View quote
Les Brown
When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty. View quote
Norm Crosby
Through the harsh design of fate, Florida was dealt the unfortunate circumstances of bearing the brunt of not one but two hurricanes, and it appears more dark clouds are poised to visit the Sunshine State. View quote
Ginny Brown-Waite
A person may rightfully be happy if in this life he could do a great favor for widows and orphans, could assist support than, and facilitate fate of people. View quote
Islom Karimov
Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate. (Olympia Brown)
Here an attempt is made to explain suffering: the outcaste of traditional Hinduism is held to deserve his fetched fate; it is a punishment for the wrongs he did in a previous life. View quote
Walter Kaufmann
It is the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination. On personal integrity hangs humanity's fate. View quote
Buckminster Fuller
Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like. View quote
Daniel Handler
I will insist that the Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed in blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations. View quote
John Adams