Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gore Vidal

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

James Branch Cabell

For all men have but a little while to live and none knows his fate thereafter. So that a man possesses nothing certainly save a brief loan of his body: and yet the body of man is capable of much curious pleasure.

J. R. R. Tolkien

And here he was, a little halfling from the Shire, a simple hobbit of the quiet countryside, expected to find a way where the great ones could not go, or dared not go. It was an evil fate.

J. R. R. Tolkien

You can make the Ring into an allegory of our own time, if you like: and allegory of the inevitable fate that waits for all attempts to defeat evil power by power.

Immanuel Kant

Human reason has the peculiar fate ... that it is burdened with questions that it cannot dismiss ... but which it also cannot answer.

Jeremy Bentham

The turn of a sentence has decided the fate of many a friendship, and, for aught that we know, the fate of many a kingdom.

Jean Shepherd

The hand of fate had dipped into the ragbag of humanity.

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.

Natasha Hamilton

I don't want to tempt fate, but it is going really well,

Doug Jones

I don't want to have my fate tied to an old, raggedy T-shirt or a pair of underwear.

Horace

Each day that fate adds to your life, put down as so much gain.

Horace

With equal pace, impartial Fate Knocks at the palace, as the cottage gate.

Homer

Toil is the lot of all, and bitter woe The fate of many.

Homer

Jove lifts the golden balances that show The fates of mortal men, and things below.

Homer

And not a man appears to tell their fate.

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.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate,Can circumvent or hinder or controlThe firm resolve of a determined soul.Gifts count for nothing; will alone is great;All things give way before it soon or late.What obstacle can stay the mighty forceOf the sea seeking river in its course,Or cause the ascending orb of day to wait?

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A man convinced of his own merit will accept misfortune as an honor, for thus can he persuade others, as well as himself, that he is a worthy target for the arrows of fate.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

One should treat one's fate as one does one's health; enjoy it when it is good, be patient with it when it is poor, and never attempt any drastic cure save as an ultimate resort.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The esteem of good men is the reward of our worth, but the reputation of the world in general is the gift of our fate.

Ian Mcewan

He never believed in fate or providence, or the future being made by someone in the sky. Instead, at every instant, a trillion trillion possible futures; the pickiness of pure chance and physical laws seemed like freedom from the scheming of a gloomy god.