Famous Quotes & Sayings

Plutarch

Fate, however, is to all appearance more unavoidable than unexpected.

Plutarch

Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist.

Plutarch

No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.

Jimmy Buffett

Yes, I am a pirate, two hundred years to late. Cannons don't thunder, there's nothing to plunder, I'm an over forty victim of fate.

Jim Sensenbrenner

In a sad twist of fate, the bill to reauthorize the Patriot Act was debated on the floor of the House of Representatives the same day that terrorists struck again.

Joanna Baillie

My day is closed! the gloom of night is come! a hopeless darkness settles over my fate.

Ellen Hopkins

TRIAD: Three separate highways intersect at a place no reasonable person would ever want to go. Three lives that would have been cut short, if not for hasty interventions by loved ones. Or Fate. Three people, with nothing at all in common except age, proximity, and a wish to die. Three tapestries, tattered at the edges and come unwoven to reveal a single mutual thread.

Ellen Hopkins

Maybe Life is random. No fate. No God. Just Time.

Elizabeth Gilbert

I thought about one of my favorite Sufi poems, which says that God long ago drew a circle in the sand exactly around the spot where you are standing right now. I was never not coming here. This was never not going to happen.

John Corey Whaley

Some people say dying alone is a fate worse than death itself. Well, they should try being alone during the living part sometimes. There's no quicker way to make you wonder why the hell you ever thought you'd want to return.

Leo Tolstoy

Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it." - Vronksy {Anna Karenina}

Leo Strauss

The Jewish people and their fate are the living witness for the absence of redemption. This, one could say, is the meaning of the chosen people; the Jews are chosen to prove the absence of redemption.

Larry McMurtry

Call listened with amusement--not that the incident hadn't been terrible. Being decapitated was a grisly fate, whether you were a Yankee or not. But then, amusing things happened in battle, as they did in the rest of life. Some of the funniest things he had ever witnessed had occurred during battles. He had always found it more satisfying to laugh on a battlefield than anywhere else, for if you lived to laugh on a battlefield, you could feel you had earned the laugh. But if you just laughed in a saloon, or at a social, the laugh didn't reach deep.

Joseph Stiglitz

The top 1 percent have the best houses, the best educations, the best doctors, and the best lifestyles, but there is one thing that money doesn't seem to have bought: an understanding that their fate is bound up with how the other 99 percent live. Throughout history, this is something that the top 1 percent eventually do learn. Too late.

Joseph Campbell

The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won't!

Karl Popper

We have become makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.

Pearl S. Buck

Fatalism is a false premise. What will be is not necessarily what must be ...

Peter Straub

I generally wade in blind and trust to fate and instinct to see me through.

Peter Thiel

In our time, the great task for libertarians is to find an escape from politics in all its forms—from the totalitarian and fundamentalist catastrophes to the unthinking demos that guides so-called ‘social democracy.’ . . . We are in a deadly race between politics and technology. . . . The fate of our world may depend on the effort of a single person who builds or propagates the machinery of freedom that makes the world safe for capitalism.

Peter L. Berger

Capitalism has been one of the most dynamic forces in human history, transforming one society after another, and today it has become established as an international system determining the economic fate of most of mankind.

Peter Porter

Redeemers always reach the world too late. God dies, we live; God lives, we die. Our fate.

Pearl Bailey

Fate carries its own clock.

Philip Pullman

We are all subject to the fates. But we must all act as if we are not, or die of despair...death will sweep through all the worlds; it will be the triumph of despair, forever. The universes will all become nothing more than interlocking machines, blind and empty of thought, feeling, life...

Philip Pullman

You speak of destiny as if it was fixed.

Philip Pullman

We are all subject to the fates. But we must act as if we are not, or die of despair.

Haruki Murakami

Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts.

Haruki Murakami

And so they parted, she to the east, and he to the west. The test they had agreed upon, however, was utterly unnecessary. They should never have undertaken it, because they really and truly were each other's 100% perfect lovers, and it was a miracle that they had ever met. But it was impossible for them to know this, young as they were. The cold, indifferent waves of fate proceeded to toss them unmercifully.

Haruki Murakami

Fate seems to be taking me in some even stranger directions.

Harlan Coben

There is a certain fate to the universe and a certain randomness.

Gustav Mahler

All that is not perfect down to the smallest detail is doomed to perish.

John Dryden

An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.

John Dryden

Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more; Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate's: Souls know no conquerors.

John Dryden

Ill news is wing'd with fate, and flies apace.