Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edmund Spenser

For we by conquest, of our soveraine might,And by eternall doome of Fate's decree,Have wonne the Empire of the Heavens bright.

Edmund Burke

The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.

Elie Wiesel

Perhaps fate isn't blind after all. Perhaps it's capable of fantasy, even compassion.

Edward Snowden

My intention is to ask the courts and people of Hong Kong to decide my fate.

Bruce Catton

Men see things late, and it may be that at times an evil fate drives them on.

Arthur Conan Doyle

The ways of fate are indeed hard to understand. If there is not some compensation hereafter, then the world is a cruel jest.

Ben Okri

The road will never swallow you. The river of destiny will always overcome evil. May you understand your fate. Suffering will never destroy you, but will make you stronger. Success will never confuse you of scatter your spirit, but will make you fly higher into the good sunlight. Your life will always surprise you.

Bai Ling

I think we all have our own mission, duty, fate in life so for me somehow I think I am always walking on the edge of life and take risks.

Ashwin Sanghi

Winning an award is a great feeling but winning the Vodafone Crossword Popular Choice Award is particularly exhilarating because it is based upon public voting. I find it a strange quirk of fate that Chanakya's Chant, a political tale, should end up winning an election!

Bruce Springsteen

Dancing in the dark. Does fortune wait or just the black hand of fate, It'll take your God filled soul. Fill it with devils.

Brian Jacques

Fate is fickle, and the company of unwilling friends short lived.

Camille Paglia

Every month, it is woman's fate to face the abyss of time and being, the abyss which is herself.

Camille Paglia

Feminism has exceeded its proper mission of seeking political equality for women and has ended by rejecting contingency, that is, human limitation by nature or fate.

Carl Jung

To make what fate intends for me my own intention

Carl Jung

Whatever is not conscious will be experienced as fate.

Carl Jung

The right way to wholeness is made up of fateful detours and wrong turnings.

Carl Jung

That which you do not bring to consciousness comes to you as your Fate, that which you do bring to consciousness, whether it was what you thought you wanted or not, is your destiny.

Carl Jung

No nation keeps its word. A nation is a big, blind worm, following what? Fate perhaps. A nation has no honor, it has no word to keep .

Carl Jung

The primordial image, or archetype, is a figure--be it a daemon, a human being, or a process--that constantly recurs in the course of history and appears wherever creative fantasy is freely expressed. Essentially, therefore, it is a mythological figure. . . . In each of these images there is a little piece of human psychology and human fate, a remnant of the joys and sorrows that have been repeated countless times in our ancestral history. . . .

Carl Jung

What we do not make conscious emerges later as fate.

Carl Jung

It is also possible for the unconscious or an archetype to take complete possession of a man and to determine his fate down to the smallest detail

Carl Jung

That which we do not bring to consciousness appears in our lives as fate.

Carl Jung

What is not brought to consciousness, comes to us as fate.

Darryl Sutter

Wow. That's pretty neat. That is weird. Maybe there's some fate there.

Billy Long

No one could reach Amy Winehouse before it was too late. Can anyone reach Washington before it's too late? Both addicted - same fate?

Bertolt Brecht

The fate of man is man.

Bertrand Russell

It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.

Bernard Cornwell

Wyrd bith ful araed (Fate is inexorable).

Chaim Weizmann

The hopes of Europe's six million Jews are centered on emigration. I was asked, 'Can you bring six million Jews to Palestine?' I replied, 'No'....From the depths of the tragedy I want to save two million young people...The old ones will pass. They will bear their fate or they will not. They were dust, economic and moral dust in a cruel world...Only the branch of the young shall survive...They have to accept it.

Charles Sanders Peirce

Fate then is that necessity by which a certain result will surely be brought to pass according to the natural course of events however we may vary the particular circumstances which precede the event.

Bipasha Basu

I actually wanted to be a doctor. But doing all those horrid rat dissections made me faint. I studied science till the 12th standard and later took up commerce. I was planning to do chartered accountancy, but fate had something else in store for me.

Bill Walton

There are no guarantees in life. The simple twists of fate and the breaks of the game are the two maxims that define so much of the success and failure in life.

Bill Watterson

Calvin: Dear Santa, before I submit life to your scrutiny, I demand to know who made YOU the matter of my fate?! Who are YOU to question my behavior, HUH??? What gives you the right?! Hobbes: Santa makes the toys, so he gets to decide who to give them to. Calvin: Oh.