Famous Quotes & Sayings

Euripides

The man who sticks it out against his fate shows spirit, but the spirit of a fool.

Euripides

The nobly born must nobly meet his fate.

Euripides

I have found power in the mysteries of thought, exaltation in the changing of the Muses ... I have been versed in the reasonings of men but Fate is stronger than anything I have known.

Euripides

You were a stranger to sorrow: therefore Fate has cursed you.

Francis Bacon

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

Jean Shepherd

The hand of fate had dipped into the ragbag of humanity.

Jean de La Fontaine

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

Gregory David Roberts

If fate doesn't make you laugh, you just don't get the joke.

Gregory David Roberts

Fate always gives you two choices, the one you should take, and the one you do

Homer

It's disgraceful how these humans blame the gods. They say their tribulations come from us, when they themselves, through their own foolishness, bring hardships which are not decreed by Fate.

Huey Newton

The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.

Howard Gardner

No individual can be in full control of his fate-our strengths come significantly from our history, our experiences largely from the vagaries of chance. But by seizing the opportunity to leverage and frame these experiences, we gain agency over them. And this heightened agency, in turn, places us in a stronger position to deal with future experiences, even as it may alter our own sense of strengths and possibilities.

Horace

Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind.

Horace

Evenhanded fate hath but one law for small and great; the ample urn holds all men's names.

Hannah Arendt

It is obvious: if you do not accept something that assumes the form of ‘destiny,’ you not only change its ‘natural laws’ but also the laws of the enemy playing the role of fate.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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?

Friedrich Nietzsche

Triumph depends on a roll of Fate's dice; the ultimate prize is a place in Heaven.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Life without music is only error, exhaustion, exile... Indeed, there is nothing that concerns me more than the fate of music.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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!

Gamal Abdel Nasser

Fate does not play jokes.

Gamal Abdel Nasser

Fate does not jest and events are not a matter of chance. There is no existence out of nothing.

Gamal Abdel Nasser

People do not want words - they want the sound of battle - the battle of destiny.

Freeman Dyson

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

Fred Astaire

Chance is the fool's name for Fate

Throw a lucky man into the sea, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth.

The fate of these seven refineries -- you don't know how long they'll be out for.

The (fate) of San Jose is really up to San Francisco.

Lord Byron

Indigestion is - that inward fate which makes all Styx through one small liver flow

The numbers look great but it doesn't seal the fate on having no increase in rates next week. It seems to be there are still some upside risks to inflation pressures.

The severity of the downturn still hinges on the fate of consumers.

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.