Famous Quotes & Sayings

Philip Roth

--nor had I understood til then how the shameless vanity of utter fools can so strongly determine the fate of others

Philip James Bailey

Fulfill thy fate! Be-do-bear-and thank God.

Philip James Bailey

Obey thy genius, for a minister it is unto the throne of fate. Draw to thy soul, and centralize the rays which are around of the Divinity.

Paulo Coelho

Whenever I refused to follow my fate, something very hard to bear would happen in my life.

Mark Akenside

The immortal mind, superior to his fate, amid the outrage of external things, firm as the solid base of this great world, rests on his own foundation. Blow, ye winds! Ye waves! ye thunders! roll your tempests on! Shake, ye old pillars of the marble sky! Till at its orbs and all its worlds of fire be loosen'd from their seats; yet still serene, the unconquer'd mind looks down upon the wreck; and ever stronger as the storms advance, firm through the closing ruin holds is way, when nature calls him to the destin'd goal.

Meghan O'Rourke

We have an idea - a very modern idea - that dying is undignified. But I think this is because we have the illusion that we can control our bodies and our fates.

Maurice Strong

Nothing less than the fate of the planet is at stake... No place on the planet can remain an island of affluence in a sea of misery.

Matthew Lillard

You may not have faith in my friend fate, But my friend fate has faith in you.

Brandon Boyd

Put down your hollow tips and kiss your lovers lips and learn that fate is what you make of it

Confucius

The wheel of fortune turns round incessantly, and who can say to himself, ''I shall today be uppermost.''

I tried to talk to him, ... to tell him this was fate, that it didn't go through; should we think about moving on?

Geno Auriemma

I told the kids in the locker room that if you're lucky in life, sometimes fate taps you on the shoulder. You want to be ready and we were ready.

They feared that the same fate awaited them.

Dale Jarrett

This pretty much seals our fate in regards to making the Chase. We went for so long this season without having issues like this. I guess we're due.

Dale Jarrett

This pretty much seals our fate in regards to making the Chase, ... We went for so long this season without having issues like this. I guess we're due.

S. J. Perelman

Fate was dealing from the bottom of the deck.

Saadi

The covetous map explores the whole world in pursuit of a subsistence, and fate is close at his heels.

Rosa Luxemburg

The victory of socialism will not descend like fate from heaven.

Susan Orlean

Borders had lousy management and made bad corporate decisions, so its fate is less like a terrible accident than a slow-motion slide into a ditch, but it's hard to be happy about a bookseller's demise.

Stephen Farrell

I think it would be slightly perverse to continue tempting fate by going back to the same places and doing the same sort of thing.

Pearl S. Buck

Fatalism is a false premise. What will be is not necessarily what must be ...

Peter Straub

I generally wade in blind and trust to fate and instinct to see me through.

Peter Thiel

In our time, the great task for libertarians is to find an escape from politics in all its forms—from the totalitarian and fundamentalist catastrophes to the unthinking demos that guides so-called ‘social democracy.’ . . . We are in a deadly race between politics and technology. . . . The fate of our world may depend on the effort of a single person who builds or propagates the machinery of freedom that makes the world safe for capitalism.

Peter L. Berger

Capitalism has been one of the most dynamic forces in human history, transforming one society after another, and today it has become established as an international system determining the economic fate of most of mankind.

Peter Porter

Redeemers always reach the world too late. God dies, we live; God lives, we die. Our fate.

Pearl Bailey

Fate carries its own clock.

Philip Pullman

We are all subject to the fates. But we must all act as if we are not, or die of despair...death will sweep through all the worlds; it will be the triumph of despair, forever. The universes will all become nothing more than interlocking machines, blind and empty of thought, feeling, life...

Philip Pullman

You speak of destiny as if it was fixed.

Philip Pullman

We are all subject to the fates. But we must act as if we are not, or die of despair.

Philip Pullman

Lee was too cool by nature to rage at fate; his manner was to raise an eyebrow and greet it laconically.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

But every jet of chaos which threatens to exterminate us is convertible by intellect into wholesome force. Fate is unpenetrated causes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We shun the rugged battle of fate where strength is born.