Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gamal Abdel Nasser

People do not want words - they want the sound of battle - the battle of destiny.

Freeman Dyson

As a working hypothesis to explain the riddle of our existence, I propose that our universe is the most interesting of all possible universes, and our fate as human beings is to make it so

Fred Astaire

Chance is the fool's name for Fate

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.

Geoffrey Chaucer

The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

When I stand and contemplate my fate and see the path along which you have led me, I reach my end, for artless I surrendered to one who is my undoing and my end.

Names and individuals are unimportant when Germany's final fate is at stake.

Christopher Atkins

I'm a very big believer in fate.

Resentments, carried too far, expose us to a fate analogous to that of the fish-hawk, when he strikes his talons too deep into a fish beyond his capacity to lift, and is carried under and drowned by it.

Chrissie Hynde

One person can make all the difference in the world. For the first time in recorded human history, we have the fate of the whole planet in our hands.

George Orwell

Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.

George Carlin

I'm a believer that things happen. Fate is what happens.

Garth Stein

A winner, a champion, will accept his fate. He will continue with his wheels in the dirt. He will do his best to maintain his line and gradually get himself back on the track when it is safe to do so. Yes, he loses a few places in the race. Yes, he is at a disadvantage. But he i A winner, a champion, will accept his fate. He will continue with his wheels in the dirt. He will do his best to maintain his line and gradually get himself back on the track when it is safe to do so. Yes, he loses a few places in the race. Yes, he is at a disadvantage. But he is still racing. He is still alive

Frederick Crews

Ephemerality is the little magazine's generic fate; by promptly dying it gives proof that it remained loyal to its first program.

George Eliot

What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.

Federico Fellini

Fate is written in the face.

Euripides

Necessity is harsh. Fate has no reprieve.

Euripides

The man who sticks it out against his fate shows spirit, but the spirit of a fool.

Euripides

The nobly born must nobly meet his fate.

Euripides

I have found power in the mysteries of thought, exaltation in the changing of the Muses ... I have been versed in the reasonings of men but Fate is stronger than anything I have known.

Euripides

You were a stranger to sorrow: therefore Fate has cursed you.

Francis Bacon

Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.

Francis Bacon

It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.

Henry Miller

To be silent the whole day long, see no newspaper, hear no radio, listen to no gossip, be thoroughly and completely lazy, thoroughly and completely indifferent to the fate of the world is the finest medicine a man can give himself.

Henry Miller

We create our fate everyday

Henry Miller

We create our fate every day . . . most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.

Henry Miller

Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed.

Helen Keller

I trust, and I recognize the beneficence of the power which we all worship as supreme- Order, Fate, the Great Spirit, Nature, God. I recognize this power in the sun that makes all things grow and keeps life afoot. I make a friend of this indefinable force…this is my religion of optimism.

Cate Blanchett

The notion of fate and destiny is a very Greek concept. Working in the theater you do think a lot about that, because as a storyteller you do think, 'At what point was this always going to happen and what part have I got a hand in being able to change things?'

George Eliot

Fate has carried me 'Mid the thick arrows: I will keep my stand Not shrink and let the shaft pass by my breast To pierce another.

George Eliot

Whatever be thy fate today, Remember, this will pass away!

The numbers look great but it doesn't seal the fate on having no increase in rates next week. It seems to be there are still some upside risks to inflation pressures.

Ernest Becker

In seeking to avoid evil, humanity is responsible for bringing more evil into the world than organisms could ever do merely by exercising their digestive tracts. It is our ingenuity, rather than our animal nature, that has given our fellow creatures such a bitter earthly fate.