Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeffrey Sachs

The defining challenge of the 21st century will be to face the reality that humanity shares a common fate on a crowded planet.

James Cameron

The future is not set. There is no fate but what we make.

Jeanette Winterson

Destiny is a worrying concept. I don't want to be fated, I want to choose.

Jeanette Winterson

What can i tell you about the choices we make? Fate reads like the polar opposite of decision, and so much of life reads like fate.

Jeanette Winterson

For fate may hang on any moment and at any moment be changed.

Jeanette Winterson

I knew it like destiny, and at the same time, I knew it as choice.

Jennifer Hudson

If it’s meant for me, it will be.' Those words are my mantra in life, and it has never let me down.

Jeff Buckley

Fate is gonna find you in your glass of champagne.

Jean-Paul Sartre

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Georges Duhamel

In the beds which the piety of the public has prepared on every side, stricken men await the verdict of fate.

George S. Patton

Sometimes I think your life and mine are under the protection of some supreme being or fate , because, after many years of parallel thought, we find ourselves in the positions we now occupy.

Jim Harrison

Fate has never ladled out hardship very evenly, and this frequently trips our often infantile sense of justice.

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’.

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.

Hannah Arendt

if we do not know our own history, we are doomed to live it as though it were our private fate.

Gore Vidal

Before the cards that one is dealt by life are the cards that fate has dealt: one's family.

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.