Fate Quotes - page 9

When I curse Fate, it's not me, but the earth in me. (Czesław Miłosz)
Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out til too late that he's been playing with two queens all along. View quote
Terry Pratchett
Tragedy dramatizes human life as potentiality and fulfillment. Its virtual future, or Destiny, is therefore quite different from that created in comedy. Comic Destiny is Fortune-what the world will bring, and the man will take or miss, encounter or escape; tragic Destiny is what the man brings, and the world will demand of him. That is his Fate. View quote
Susanne Langer
In time you shall see Fate approach you In the shape of your own image in the mirror; Or you shall sit alone by your own hearth, And suddenly the chair by you shall hold a guest, And you shall know that guest, And read the authentic message of his eyes. View quote
Edgar Lee Masters
We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. None else has the blame, none has the praise. View quote
Swami Vivekananda
The nobly born must nobly meet his fate. View quote
Euripides
If the art of war were nothing but the art of avoiding risks, glory would become the prey of mediocre minds.... I have made all the calculations; fate will do the rest. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
Our hour is marked, and no one can claim a moment of life beyond what fate has predestined. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
The fate of your heart is your choice and no one else gets a vote. View quote
Sarah Dessen
Though the day of my Destiny's over, And the star of my Fate hath declined, Thy soft heart refused to discover The faults which so many could find. View quote
Lord Byron
Is it our job to judge? The gendarme, policemen and bureaucrats have been especially prepared by fate for that job. Our job is towrite, and only to write. (Anton Chekhov)
Hitler was the fate of Germany and this fate could not be stayed. View quote
Walther von Brauchitsch
I do feel ashamed of having participated to the slightest even as a tool in those dark days. But I was obliged to serve the state to which I had taken an oath. It was a tragic fate. View quote
Walther Funk
If the U.S. monopoly capitalist groups persist in pushing their policies of aggression and war, the day is bound to come when they will be hanged by the people of the whole world. The same fate awaits the accomplices of the United States. View quote
Mao Zedong
Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
But Chrysippus, Posidonius, Zeno, and Boëthus say, that all things are produced by fate. And fate is a connected cause of existing things, or the reason according to which the world is regulated. View quote
Diogenes Laërtius
The Stoics also teach that God is unity, and that he is called Mind and Fate and Jupiter, and by many other names besides. View quote
Diogenes Laërtius
The translation of the Veda will hereafter tell to a great extent on the fate of India and on the growth of millions of souls in that country. It is the root of their religion, and to show them what the root is, I feel sure, is the only way of uprooting all that has sprung from it during the last 3000 years. View quote
Max Müller
The anxiety of fate is conquered by the self-affirmation of the individual as an infinitely significant microcosmic representation of the universe. View quote
Paul Tillich
Fate, I respect a lot. I never regret anything. (Anita Pallenberg)
Fate and temperament are the names of a concept. View quote
Novalis
Serenely full, the epicure would say, Fate cannot harm me I have dined to-day. View quote
Sydney Smith
The fate of a single man can be rich with significance, that of a few hundred less so, but the history of thousands and millions of men does not mean anything at all, in any adequate sense of the word. View quote
Stanisław Lem
Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you - it's born with us the day that we are born. View quote
Homer