Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nuno Bettencourt

Great vocal track on "You can't cheat fate."

Mason Cooley

Rage against the world, if you like, but quietly, or the Guardians will awake.

Mason Cooley

Fortuna likes to find a crowd and follow it.

Mason Cooley

Thought enables us to see Fate coming.

Mason Cooley

The powerless worship Luck and Fate.

Marie Dressler

Fate cast me to play the role of an ugly duckling with no promise of swanning. . . . I have played my life as a comedy rather than the tragedy many would have made of it.

Marie Corelli

The Browning love story? It is an ideal, all too rare, and yet I hardly think it strange. It would have been far stranger had the fates allowed those two brilliant passionate souls to beat themselves out in silence.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate.

Mark Zandi

It has become fashionable to rail against government intervention in the economy, and the FHA is a favorite example by those trying to show the government's overreach. In reality, the FHA shows how government action during the Great Recession forestalled a much worse economic fate.

Theophile Gautier

Fortune loves to give bedroom slippers to people with wooden legs, and gloves to those with no hands.

Henry Ford

You are the Master of your Fate, the Captain of your Soul.

Mangosuthu Buthelezi

We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans.

Mahatma Gandhi

That which makes man the mere plaything of fate is God.

John Adams

Liberty, according to my metaphysics, is an intellectual quality, an attribute that belongs not to fate nor chance. Neither possesses it, neither is capable of it. There is nothing moral or immoral in the idea of it. The definition of it is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power; it can elect between objects, indifferent in point of morality, neither morally good nor morally evil.

Jacob Bronowski

Revolutions are not made by fate but by men.

James Levine

Fate is a misplaced retreat. Many people rationalize an unexplained event as fate and shrug their shoulders when it occurs. But that is not what fate is. The world operates as a series of circles that are invisible, for they extend to the upper air. Fate is where these circles cut to earth. Since we cannot see them, do not know their content, and have no sense of their width, it is impossible to predict when these cuts will slice into our reality. When this happens, we call it fate. Fate is not a chance event but one that is inevitable, we are simply blind to its nature and time.

James Larkin

The fate of you, the aristocracy of industry, will be as the fate of the aristocracy of land if you do not show that you have some humanity still among you.

Joan Didion

We were that generation called silent, but we were silent neither, as some thought, because we shared the period's official optimism nor, as others thought, because we feared its official repression. We were silent because the exhilaration of social action seemed to many of us just one more way of escaping the personal, of masking for a while that dread of the meaningless which was man's fate.

Neal Stephenson

It is the fate of operating systems to become free.

Rainer Maria Rilke

No experience has been too unimportant, and the smallest event unfolds like a fate, and fate itself is like a wonderful, wide fabric in which every thread is guided by an infinitely tender hand and laid alongside another thread and is held and supported by a hundred others

Rainer Maria Rilke

They, who passed away long ago, still exist in us, as predisposition, as burden upon our fate, as murmuring blood, and as gesture that rises up from the depths of time.

Rainer Maria Rilke

What we call fate does not come into us from the outside, but emerges from us.

Rainer Maria Rilke

At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and again it is the best thing in life that each should have everything in himself; his fate, his future, his whole expanse and world.

Sharon Tate

My whole life has been decided by fate.

John Galsworthy

Life calls the tune, we dance.

John Frusciante

Something like trying to protect yourself all the time, things like trying to outwit fate. Those things can be the worst thing you can do for yourself.

Garry Kasparov

All that now seems to stand between Nigel and the prospect of the world crown is the unfortunate fact that fate brought him into this world only two years after Kasparov.

Gaylord Nelson

The fate of the living planet is the most important issue facing mankind.

John Corey Whaley

Some people say dying alone is a fate worse than death itself. Well, they should try being alone during the living part sometimes. There's no quicker way to make you wonder why the hell you ever thought you'd want to return.

Madeleine L'Engle

If you're too happy about anything, fate usually gives you a good sock in the jaw and knocks you down.

Louisa May Alcott

Resolved to take fate by the throat and shake a living out of her.

John Glenn

To sit back and let fate play its hand out and never influence it is not the way man was meant to operate.

John Gay

One common fate we both must prove; You die with envy, I with love.