Fate Quotes - page 6

Sometimes I think your life and mine are under the protection of some supreme being or fate, because, after many years of parallel thought, we find ourselves in the positions we now occupy. (George S. Patton)
The notion of nothingness is not characteristic of laboring humanity: those who toil have neither time nor inclination to weigh their dust; they resign themselves to the difficulties or the doltishness of fate; they hope: hope is a slave's virtue. View quote
Emil Cioran
It is a sign of the times, and not a very good sign, that these days it is necessary-and not only necessary but urgent-to interest minds in the fate of Mind, that is to say, in their own fate. View quote
Paul Valéry
The problem is not the harshness of Fate, for anything we want strongly enough we get. The trouble is rather that when we have it we grow sick of it, and then we should never blame Fate, only our own desire. View quote
Cesare Pavese
If you do not create your destiny, you will have your fate inflicted upon you. View quote
William Irwin Thompson
On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate. View quote
Joseph Addison
But what is to be the fate of the great wen of all? The monster, called, by the silly coxcombs of the press, "the metropolis of the empire?" View quote
William Cobbett
There is a huge body of evidence to support the notion that me and the police were put on this earth to do extremely different things and never to mingle professionally with each other, except at official functions, when we all wear ties and drink heavily and whoop it up like the natural, good-humored wild boys that we know in our hearts that we are. ... These occasions are rare, but they happen - despite the forked tongue of fate that has put us forever on different paths... View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
Each man has a breaking point, no matter how strong his spirit. Somewhere, deep inside him, there is a flaw that only the fickle cruelty of fate can find. View quote
David Gemmell
I don't know yet whether I fully believe in fate, but certain things do happen in a man's life that he cannot explain. View quote
David Gemmell
The dictates of the heart are the voice of fate. (Friedrich Schiller)
Fate sits on these dark battlements and frowns, And as the portal opens to receive me, A voice in hollow murmurs through the courts Tells of a nameless deed. View quote
Ann Radcliffe
Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it. View quote
Jeanette Winterson
The worst death for anyone is to lose the center of his being, the thing he really is. Retirement is the filthiest word in the language. Whether by choice or by fate, to retire from what you do - and makes you what you are - is to back up into the grave. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
My mother had a look on her face that I'll never forget. It was one of complete despair and horror, for losing Bing, for being so foolish as to think she could use faith to change fate. View quote
Amy Tan
Fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention. View quote
Amy Tan
I have no patience with this dreadful idea that whatever you have in you has to come out, that you can't suppress true talent. People can be destroyed; they can be bent, distorted, and completely crippled. In spite of all the poetry, all the philosophy to the contrary, we are not really masters of our fate. View quote
Katherine Anne Porter
The great wheel of Fate rolls on like a Juggernaut, and crushes us all in turn, some soon, some late. View quote
H. Rider Haggard
Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence. View quote
George Santayana
Injustice in this world is not something comparative; the wrong is deep, clear, and absolute in each private fate. View quote
George Santayana
Novels, since the birth of the genre, have been full of rejected, seduced, and abandoned maidens, whose proper fate is to die... (Margaret Drabble)
We've got to break through the wall of secrecy. It's America's fate. View quote
Helen Thomas
I want to seize fate by the throat. View quote
Ludwig van Beethoven
Feminism has exceeded its proper mission of seeking political equality for women and has ended by rejecting contingency, that is, human limitation by nature or fate. View quote
Camille Paglia
They say in the military that a good battle plan can last as long as five minutes in real fighting. After that, it comes down to if the general is favored by fate and the spirits. View quote
Paolo Bacigalupi