Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Moorcock

Trapped. Sinking. Can't be myself. Made into what other people expect. Is that everyone's fate? Were the great individualists the products of their friends who wanted a great individualist as a friend?

Michael Moorcock

Destiny's Champion, Fate's fool. Eternity's Soldier, Time's Tool.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Are you mad? (Artemis) Yes, I am. Mad at this world where we are nothing to the gods. Mad at the Fates who put us here for no purpose except to toy with us for their petty amusement. I wish all of the gods were dead and gone. (Acheron)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Nothing is ever truly set by fate. In one blink, everything changes. Even though it should be a clear, sunny day, the softest whisper into the wind can become a hurricane that destroys everything it touches. (Acheron)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

I am the god Apostolos. The Harbinger of Telikos. The Final Fate of all. Beloved son of Apollymi the Great Destroyer. My will makes the will of the universe. [Apostolos / Acheron Parthenopaeus]

Sherrilyn Kenyon

He struggled to breathe through the agony in his chest. The Fates were still mocking him. It must be a boring day for them up on Olympus.

John Perkins

The choices we make within the boundaries of the twists of fate determines who we are

John Perkins

I have come to understand that life is composed of a series of coincidences. How we react to these - how we exercise what some refer to as free will - is everything; the choices we make within the boundaries of the twists of fate determine who we are.

John Milton

Fate shall yield To fickle Chance, and Chaos judge the strife.

John Milton

And sing to those that hold the vital shears; And turn the adamantine spindle round, On which the fate of gods and men is wound.

John Milton

Necessity and chance Approach not me, and what I will is fate.

John Milton

He left it in thy power, ordaind thy will By nature free, not over-rul'd by Fate Inextricable, or strict necessity;

John Milton

By a certain fate, great acts, and great eloquence have most commonly gone hand in hand, equalling and honoring each other in the same ages.

Norman Borlaug

The destiny of world civilization depends upon providing a decent standard of living for all mankind.

Mitch Albom

But fates are connected in ways we don’t understand.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I remain unconvinced that anything other than rapid decomposition is the fate of my body and mind after death.

John W. Gardner

The man who once cursed his fate, now curses himself - and pays his psychoanalyst.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

You of all beings know how fate works. What happened to you as a human happened because everyone from your parents on down tried to circumvent what was supposed to be – which ultimately was the destruction of the Atlantean pantheon. There was no changing that prophecy. But the way you suffered was completely unnecessary. Had your parents embraced their true destiny, you would have been saved years of torment. Fate will not be denied. We can sculpt it, but in the end we’re all pawns to our final destinies. Good, bad, or indifferent. (Savitar)

Terence

How unfair the fate which ordains that those who have the least should be always adding to the treasury of the wealthy.

Nora Roberts

Niall: We're tossed by the winds of fate. Once we end where they blow us, we make of ourselves that we will.

Nora Roberts

Fate. You could never anticipate it.

Nora Roberts

To fate and the strange way that it twists us all together.

Nikola Tesla

By an irony of fate, my first employment was as a draughtsman. I hated drawing; it was for me the very worst of annoyances. Fortunately, it was not long before I secured the position I sought, that of chief electrician to the telephone company.

Matthew Arnold

Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.

Matthew Arnold

They... who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.

Meg Rosoff

Fate isn't some middle-aged man with a squint who won't recognize you if you change your clothes.

Maxim Gorky

All that is called Destiny or Fate is none other than the result of our thoughtlessness and our mistrust of ourselves; we should know that all that is created on earth is created by its sole Master and Laborer -- Man.

Max Beerbohm

Fate weaves the darkness, which is perhaps why she weaves so badly.

P. J. O'Rourke

African famine is not a visitation of fate. It is largely man-made, and the men who made it are largely Africans.

Plato

All things are in fate, yet all things are not decreed by fate.

Paul Zane Pilzer

It is thus hardly surprising that so many of the great minds in recent history have concerned themselves with economic matters. Indeed, they have come to regard economic theory in precisely the same way the ancient philosophers viewed the heavens - as the key to understanding and controlling our fate.

Martin Schulz

Refugees cost us money too when they come to us. If we improve their living conditions in Turkey, we create an incentive for them to stay there and not to place their fates in the hands of smugglers.

Philip Roth

--nor had I understood til then how the shameless vanity of utter fools can so strongly determine the fate of others