Famous Quotes & Sayings

Christoph Martin Wieland

Man blindly works the will of fate. [Ger., Blindlings that er blos den Willen des Geschickes.]

Christian Lous Lange

History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our own?

Chris Murray

Destiny and fate are of one’s own making, and riches and happiness are rarely found at the end of an easily-traversed path.

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.

George Washington

It is yet to be decided whether the Revolution must ultimately be considered as a blessing or a curse: a blessing or a curse, not to the present age alone, for with our fate will the destiny of unborn millions be involved.

George Washington

The fate of unborn millions will now depend, under God, on the courage and conduct of this army. We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die.

George Washington

The time is now near at hand which must probably determine whether Americans are to be freemen or slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their houses and farms are to be pillaged and destroyed, and themselves consigned to a state of wretchedness from which no human efforts will deliver them. The fate of unborn millions will now depend, under God, on the courage and conduct of this army. Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave resistance, or the most abject submission. We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die.

George Santayana

Injustice in this world is not something comparative; the wrong is deep, clear, and absolute in each private fate.

George Santayana

The Fates, like an absent-minded printer, seldom allow a single line to stand perfect and unmarred.

George Santayana

The wonder of an artist's performance grows with the range of his penetration, with the instinctive sympathy that makes him, in his mortal isolation, considerate of other men's fate and a great diviner of their secret, so that his work speaks to them kindly, with a deeper assurance than they could have spoken with to themselves.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Or renounce life altogether! Accept fate obediently as it is, once and for all, and stifle everything in myself, renouncing any right to act, to live, to love.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

At that point I ought to have gone away, but a strange sensation rose up in me, a sort of defiance of fate, a desire to challenge it, to put out my tongue at it. I laid down the largest stake allowe-four thousand gulden-and lost it. Then, getting hot, I pulled out all I had left, staked it on the same number, and lost again, after which I walked away from the table as though I were stunned. I could not even grasp what had happened to me.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Free will without fate is no more conceivable than spirit without matter, good without evil.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Man is something that shall be overcome.... Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman -- a rope over an abyss... What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end.

Jeanette Winterson

What can i tell you about the choices we make? Fate reads like the polar opposite of decision, and so much of life reads like fate.

Jeanette Winterson

For fate may hang on any moment and at any moment be changed.

Jeanette Winterson

I knew it like destiny, and at the same time, I knew it as choice.

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.

Resentments, carried too far, expose us to a fate analogous to that of the fish-hawk, when he strikes his talons too deep into a fish beyond his capacity to lift, and is carried under and drowned by it.

Chrissie Hynde

One person can make all the difference in the world. For the first time in recorded human history, we have the fate of the whole planet in our hands.

George Orwell

Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.

George Carlin

I'm a believer that things happen. Fate is what happens.

Garth Stein

A winner, a champion, will accept his fate. He will continue with his wheels in the dirt. He will do his best to maintain his line and gradually get himself back on the track when it is safe to do so. Yes, he loses a few places in the race. Yes, he is at a disadvantage. But he i A winner, a champion, will accept his fate. He will continue with his wheels in the dirt. He will do his best to maintain his line and gradually get himself back on the track when it is safe to do so. Yes, he loses a few places in the race. Yes, he is at a disadvantage. But he is still racing. He is still alive

Frederick Crews

Ephemerality is the little magazine's generic fate; by promptly dying it gives proof that it remained loyal to its first program.

George Eliot

What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.

Federico Fellini

Fate is written in the face.

Euripides

Necessity is harsh. Fate has no reprieve.