Famous Quotes & Sayings

Margaret Atwood

I suppose it's everyone's fate to be reduced to quaintness by those younger than themselves.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Human life is inexplicable, and still without meaning: a fool may decide its fate.

Jean-Paul Marat

It seems that the inevitable fate of man is never attain complete freedom: princes everywhere tend to despotism and the people to servitude.

Gloria Estefan

We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.

Gloria Estefan

The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come. Where will you be a few years down the line. Will it be everything you dreamed of. We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.

Gloria Estefan

We seal our fate with the choices we make.

Jenny Frost

I feel like my mum is in heaven sharing a cup of tea with Lady Fate and plotting my life out like a chess game.

Jenna Elfman

There is such a thing as fate, but it only takes you so far. Then its up to you to make it happen.

Frank Herbert

To come under siege was the inevitable fate of power.

Lajos Kossuth

And if you cannot remain indifferent, you must resolve to throw your weight into that balance in which the fate and condition of man is weighed.

Lajos Kossuth

Even in political considerations, now-a-days, you have stronger motives to feel interested in the fate of Europe than in the fate of the Central or Southern parts of America.

Patricia McConnell

I felt compelled to blow the whistle on the penal system, under the delusion that doing so might result in some change, or at least save a few women from the same fate. Eternally naïve, that's me.

Madonna Ciccone

That consciousness is everything and that all things begin with a thought. That we are responsible for our own fate, we reap what we sow, we get what we give, we pull in what we put out.

Michael Crichton

One of the most difficult things for a writer in this business to accept is the uncertain fate of one's work.

Jasper Fforde

Sometimes choice is a luxury that fate does not afford us.

Evgeni Plushenko

I think I was born to be a figure skater, I think it was fate, and I thank God for letting it happen.

Evelyn Waugh

All fates are ‘worse than death’.

Henry Miller

To be silent the whole day long, see no newspaper, hear no radio, listen to no gossip, be thoroughly and completely lazy, thoroughly and completely indifferent to the fate of the world is the finest medicine a man can give himself.

Henry Miller

We create our fate everyday

Henry Miller

We create our fate every day . . . most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.

Henry Miller

Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed.

Helen Keller

I trust, and I recognize the beneficence of the power which we all worship as supreme- Order, Fate, the Great Spirit, Nature, God. I recognize this power in the sun that makes all things grow and keeps life afoot. I make a friend of this indefinable force…this is my religion of optimism.

Cate Blanchett

The notion of fate and destiny is a very Greek concept. Working in the theater you do think a lot about that, because as a storyteller you do think, 'At what point was this always going to happen and what part have I got a hand in being able to change things?'

George Eliot

Fate has carried me 'Mid the thick arrows: I will keep my stand Not shrink and let the shaft pass by my breast To pierce another.

George Eliot

Whatever be thy fate today, Remember, this will pass away!

Geoffrey Chaucer

The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

When I stand and contemplate my fate and see the path along which you have led me, I reach my end, for artless I surrendered to one who is my undoing and my end.

Names and individuals are unimportant when Germany's final fate is at stake.

Christopher Atkins

I'm a very big believer in fate.

Francis Bacon

Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.

Francis Bacon

It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.

Climate change has the potential to affect everything we care about - whether it is the health of our families, the stability of our communities, or the fate of the wild animals.

Frances Mayes

Like fanning through a deck of cards, my mind flashes on the thousand chances, trivial to profound, that converged to re-create this place. Any arbitrary turning along the way and I would be elsewhere; I would be different. Where did the expression "a place in the sun" first come from? My rational thought process cling always to the idea of free will, random event; my blood, however, streams easily along a current of fate.