Quotes about fate
fate acceptance games
You have got to play the game with the cards that have been dealt to you, and it is of no use for you to bewail your fate because you don't hold different ones. Look them over, arrange them, and play. You certainly must play them before you will get any others, and you need never expect to have other people's cards.
fate men masters
For man is man and master of his fate.
fate obsolescence dies
Obsolescence is a fate devoutly to be wished, lest science stagnate and die. Stephen Jay Gould
fate fish lucky man throw
Throw a lucky man into the sea, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth.
fate men cells
The word 'idiot' comes from a Greek root meaning private person. Idiocy is the female defect: intent on their private lives, women follow their fate through a darkness deep as that cast by malformed cells in the brain. It is no worse than the male defect, which is lunacy: men are so obsessed by public affairs that they see the world as by moonlight, which shows the outlines of every object but not the details indicative of their nature. Rebecca West
fate break-off machines
I figure the world is basically a machine. I don't know who made it, if it was the Fates, or the gods, or the capital-G god or whatever. But it chugs along the way it's supposed to most of the time. Sure, little pieces break off and stuff goes haywire once in a while, but mostly... things happen for a reason. Rick Riordan
fate thinking laughing
Akhlys lunged at Percy, and for a split second he thought: Well, hey, I’m just smoke. She can’t touch me, right? He imagined the Fates up in Olympus, laughing at his wishful thinking: LOL, NOOB!
fate world quests
She had to go on this quest. The fate of the world might depend on it. But part of him wanted to say: Forget the world. He didn’t want to be without her.
fate luck stories
There's a Grand Designer behind everything. Your life is not a result of random chance, fate, or luck. There is a master plan. History is His story. God is pulling the strings. Rick Warren
fate worry helping
Frank had decided that whatever his fate was, he wouldn’t worry about it. He would just do the best he could to help his friends.
fate two wire
[Percy] kept hoping things would get better for Annabeth and him, but their lives just got more dangerous, as if the Three Fates were up there spinning their futures with barbed wire instead of thread just to see how much two demigods could tolerate.
fate past light
Till the Future dares Forget the Past, his fate and fame shall be An echo and a light unto eternity! Percy Bysshe Shelley
fate mind these-days
It is a sign of the times, and not a very good sign, that these days it is necessary and not only necessary but urgent to interest minds in the fate of Mind, that is to say, in their own fate. Paul Valery
fate rivers water
Concern for the fate of the great rivers of the earth must lead us to reflect soberly on the model of development which our society is pursuing. A purely economic and technological understanding of progress, to the extent that it fails to acknowledge its intrinsic limitations and to take into consideration the integral good of humanity, will inevitably provoke negative consequences for individuals, peoples and creation itself. Pope Benedict XVI
fate envied
To be envied is a nobler fate than to be pitied. Pindar
fate suffering coward
It is true fortitude to stand firm against All shocks of fate, when cowards faint and die In fear to suffer more calamity. Philip Massinger
fate names car
Fate" Eve said with a sigh "I'm not sure fate had to burn up your car to get the point across," Shane said, buckling his own seatbelt. "No, not that. The hearse. I'm going to name it Fate." Shane stared at Eve for a long, long few seconds, then slowly shook his head. "Have you considered medication, or-" She flipped him off. "Ah. Back to normal. Excellent. Rachel Caine
fate loss destiny
There is a word in Old English which belongs wholly to that civilization - "dustsceawung," meaning contemplation of dust. It is a true image of the Anglo-Saxon mind, or at least an echo of that consciousness which considered transcience and loss to be part of the human estate; it was a world in which life was uncertain and the principal diety was fate or destiny or "wyrd." Peter Ackroyd
fate stomach determine
It isn't the head but the stomach that determines the fate of the stockpicker. Peter Lynch
fate omission honest
Nothing can be said: nothing sure, nothing probable, nothing honest. Better to err through omission than through commission: better to refrain from steering the fate of others, since it is already so difficult to navigate one's own. Primo Levi
fate unexpected appearance
Fate, however, is to all appearance more unavoidable than unexpected. Plutarch
fate destiny drag
Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist.
fate destiny men
No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.
fate weather imagination
That day she put our heads together, Fate had her imagination about her, Your head so much concerned with outer, Mine with inner, weather. Robert Frost
fate religion foundation
The New Testament, they tell us, is founded upon the prophecies of the Old; if so, it must follow the fate of its foundation. Thomas Paine
fate issues territory
I cannot say that I am in the slightest degree impressed by your bigness, or your material resources, as such. Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation. The great issue, about which hangs true sublimity, and the terror of overhanging fate, is what are you going to do with all these things? Thomas Huxley
fate needs reason
Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate. Thomas E. Mann
fate hands play
Our fate is matched by the total freedom we have to react to our fate. It is as if we were dealt a hand of card. Once we have them, we are free to play them as we choose. Thomas Sowell
fate people tragedy
The murder of a dozen innocent people is unquestionably a human tragedy. But that is no excuse for reacting blindly by preventing hundreds of thousands of other people from defending themselves against meeting the same fate.
fate america people
The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them.
fate giving facts
The basic fact is that no, this isnt ideal. Very few things are. Sometimes, you have to manufacture your own history. Give fate a push,so to speak. -Heidi Sarah Dessen
fate important another-chance
But if something was really important, fate made sure it somehow came back to you and gave you another chance.
fate thinking soul
It is comforting to think that we can love so powerfully that fate itself wheels and turns at the command of our souls. Roger Ebert