Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ian Mcewan

He never believed in fate or providence, or the future being made by someone in the sky. Instead, at every instant, a trillion trillion possible futures; the pickiness of pure chance and physical laws seemed like freedom from the scheming of a gloomy god.

Hugh Howey

What we control," Juliette said, "is our actions once fate puts us there.

Horace

Each day that fate adds to your life, put down as so much gain.

Horace

With equal pace, impartial Fate Knocks at the palace, as the cottage gate.

Homer

Toil is the lot of all, and bitter woe The fate of many.

Homer

Jove lifts the golden balances that show The fates of mortal men, and things below.

Homer

And not a man appears to tell their fate.

Natasha Hamilton

I don't want to tempt fate, but it is going really well,

Doug Jones

I don't want to have my fate tied to an old, raggedy T-shirt or a pair of underwear.

Erica Jong

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.

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’.

Isoroku Yamamoto

The fate of the Empire rests on this enterprise. Every man must devote himself totally to the task in hand.

Irwin Shaw

In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.

Jack Kerouac

He seems to me to be headed for his ideal fate, which is compulsive psychosis dashed with a jigger of psychopathic irresponsibility and violence

J. Courtney Sullivan

Timing was everything when it came to being a woman—the moment you entered the world could seal your fate.

Will Carleton

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.

Glenn Ford

We have allowed corporations to decide the fate of the cities. We hardly speak of democratic development.

Madeleine L'Engle

If you're too happy about anything, fate usually gives you a good sock in the jaw and knocks you down.

Louisa May Alcott

Resolved to take fate by the throat and shake a living out of her.

John Glenn

To sit back and let fate play its hand out and never influence it is not the way man was meant to operate.

John Gay

One common fate we both must prove; You die with envy, I with love.

John F. Kennedy

The American presidency will demand more than ringing manifestos issued from the rear of the battle. It will demand that the President place himself in the very thick of the fight; that he care passionately about the fate of the people he leads .

Jonathan Kozol

The rich...should beg the poor to forgive us for the bread we bring them. Healthy people sometimes feel they need to beg forgiveness too, although there is no reason why. Maybe we simply ask forgiveness for not being born where these poor women have been born, knowing that if we lived here too, our fate might well have been the same.

Paul Valery

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.

Pope Benedict XVI

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.

Pindar

To be envied is a nobler fate than to be pitied.

Philip Massinger

It is true fortitude to stand firm against All shocks of fate, when cowards faint and die In fear to suffer more calamity.

Rachel Caine

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.

Peter Ackroyd

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 Lynch

It isn't the head but the stomach that determines the fate of the stockpicker.

Primo Levi

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.