Famous Quotes & Sayings

Friedrich Schiller

Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.

Friedrich Schiller

He cannot complain of a hard sentence, who is made master of his own fate.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The fate of America cannot depend on any one man. The greatness of America is grounded in principles and not on any single personality.

Jon Meacham

I don't think anyone is qualified to answer questions of eternal fate definitively, much less pinpoint it to a given day.

Ludwig van Beethoven

I shall seize fate by the throat.

Ludwig van Beethoven

I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me.

James F. Cooper

It is the fate of all things to ripen, and then to decay.

Jacques Monod

Armed with all the powers, enjoying all the wealth they owe to science, our societies are still trying to practice and to teach systems of values already destroyed at the roots by that very science. Man knows at last that he is alone in the indifferent immensity of the universe, whence which he has emerged by chance. His duty, like his fate, is written nowhere.

Helen Hayes

Actors work and slave and it is the color of your hair that can determine your fate in the end.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

One must always say every word with consideration, and should not say what one does not wish to happen. Those who do not understand the value of suggestion walk after their own fate with a whip in their hand, and those who understand its value and control their word and use it rightly, they are a bliss to themselves and a source of happiness to others.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Instead of lamenting your fate, create your world.

Helmut Schmidt

Politicians and journalists share the same fate in that they often understand tomorrow the things they talk about today.

Hector Elizondo

Which reminds me of a fortune cookie: you often find your destiny on the path you take to avoid it.

Henry Ford

You are the Master of your Fate, the Captain of your Soul.

Mangosuthu Buthelezi

We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans.

Mahatma Gandhi

That which makes man the mere plaything of fate is God.

This is all remarkable. Our humble telescopes are determining the fate of the universe.

John Dryden

All humane things are subject to decay, And, when fate summons, Monarchs must obey.

a jury we'd like to have sit on our own fate were we ever in such a position.

Elizabeth Smart

Life is a journey for us all. We all face trials. We all have ups and downs. All of us are human. But we are also the masters of our fate. We are the ones who decide how we are going to react to life.

Eric Hoffer

It is the fate of every great achievement to be pounced upon by pedants and imitators who drain it of life and turn it into an orthodoxy which stifles all stirrings of originality.

Eric Hoffer

It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.

Eric Hoffer

I can never forget that one of the most gifted, best educated nations in the world, of its own free will, surrendered its fate into the hands of a maniac.

Lucan

I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate.

John Scott

The true experimenters are there but no-one hears about them - the critical/review system tends to concentrate on the handful of 'major' writers and their promising successors; bookshops tend not to sell them; publishers don't promote them. It's the same fate as has befallen poetry.

J. K. Rowling

The fates have informed me that your examination in June will concern the Orb, and I am anxious to give you sufficient practice. Hermione snorted. "Well honestly... 'the fates have informed her'... Who sets the exam? She does!

J. K. Rowling

We can't choose our fate, but we can choose others. Be careful in knowing that.

J. K. Rowling

Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.

Michelle Alexander

The fate of millions of people—indeed the future of the black community itself—may depend on the willingness of those who care about racial justice to re-examine their basic assumptions about the role of the criminal justice system in our society.

Michael Parenti

Ecology's implications for capitalism are too momentous for the capitalist to contemplate. The plutocrats are more wedded to their wealth than to the Earth upon which they live, more concerned with the fate of their fortunes than with the fate of humanity. The present ecological crisis has been created by the few at the expense of the many.

Rainer Maria Rilke

No experience has been too unimportant, and the smallest event unfolds like a fate, and fate itself is like a wonderful, wide fabric in which every thread is guided by an infinitely tender hand and laid alongside another thread and is held and supported by a hundred others

Rainer Maria Rilke

They, who passed away long ago, still exist in us, as predisposition, as burden upon our fate, as murmuring blood, and as gesture that rises up from the depths of time.

Rainer Maria Rilke

What we call fate does not come into us from the outside, but emerges from us.