Quotes about fate
fate destiny blessing
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
fate army conquer
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.
fate army hands
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.
fate justice world
Injustice in this world is not something comparative; the wrong is deep, clear, and absolute in each private fate. George Santayana
fate perfect lines
The Fates, like an absent-minded printer, seldom allow a single line to stand perfect and unmarred.
fate artist men
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.
fate accepting renounce
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
fate gone-away numbers
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.
fate evil matter
Free will without fate is no more conceivable than spirit without matter, good without evil. Friedrich Nietzsche
fate men bridges
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.
fate destiny worry
Destiny is a worrying concept. I don't want to be fated, I want to choose. Jeanette Winterson
fate opposites decision
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.
fate may moments
For fate may hang on any moment and at any moment be changed.
fate destiny choices
I knew it like destiny, and at the same time, I knew it as choice.
fate psychosis violence
He seems to me to be headed for his ideal fate, which is compulsive psychosis dashed with a jigger of psychopathic irresponsibility and violence Jack Kerouac
fate world timing
Timing was everything when it came to being a woman—the moment you entered the world could seal your fate. J. Courtney Sullivan
fate want danger
The danger in happiness - "Now everything is turning out right for me; from now on i'll love every turn of fate - Who wants to be my fate?
fate heaven dice
Triumph depends on a roll of Fate's dice; the ultimate prize is a place in Heaven.
fate errors music-is
Life without music is only error, exhaustion, exile... Indeed, there is nothing that concerns me more than the fate of music.
fate men nausea
Having become conscious of the truth he once perceived, man now sees only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence, he now understands the symbolic element in Ophelia's fate, he now recognizes the wisdom of the woodland god, Silenus: it nauseates him.
fate judging pieces
One is necessary, one is a piece of fate, one belongs to the whole, one is the whole - there exists nothing which could judge, measure, compare, condemn our being, for that would be to judge, measure, compare, condemn the whole...But nothing exists apart from the whole!
fate play doe
Fate does not play jokes. Gamal Abdel Nasser
fate doe matter
Fate does not jest and events are not a matter of chance. There is no existence out of nothing.
fate destiny people
People do not want words - they want the sound of battle - the battle of destiny.
fate interesting hypothesis
As a working hypothesis to explain the riddle of our existence, I propose that our universe is the most interesting of all possible universes, and our fate as human beings is to make it so Freeman Dyson
fate names fool
Chance is the fool's name for Fate Fred Astaire
fate calling use
We find our calling or it finds us, and it's a sin against the fates not to use your talent when you have it. Erica Jong
fate gold key learned lives lock sure
But I have learned a thing or two; I know as sure as fate,When we lock up our lives for wealth, the gold key comes too late. Will Carleton
fate cities democracy
We have allowed corporations to decide the fate of the cities. We hardly speak of democratic development. Glenn Ford
fate men hands
The fate of the Empire rests on this enterprise. Every man must devote himself totally to the task in hand. Isoroku Yamamoto
fate artist america
In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that. Irwin Shaw
fate let-me mantras
If it’s meant for me, it will be.' Those words are my mantra in life, and it has never let me down. Jennifer Hudson
fate glasses champagne
Fate is gonna find you in your glass of champagne. Jeff Buckley