Famous Quotes & Sayings

Donna Leon

Oh, so seldom does fate cast our enemy into our hands, to do with as we will

Donald Justice

How shall I speak of Doom, and ours in special, But as of something altogether common?

Clive James

I was wrong, however, to suppose that Sellers thought the world revolved around him. He thought the cosmos did too, and history, and the fates... Like every egomaniac, he behaved as if everybody else spent their day being as interested in him as he was.

e. e. cummings

...remember one thing only: that it's you-nobody else-who determines your destiny and decides your fate. Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else.

Douglas Coupland

Wilcox Fate is for losers.

Douglas Coupland

Destiny is what we work toward. The future doesn't exist yet. Fate is for losers!

Douglas Coupland

As you grow older, it becomes harder to feel 100 percent happy; you learn all the things that can go wrong, you become superstitious about tempting fate, about bringing disaster upon your life by accidentally feeling too good one day.

David Archuleta

Fate rarely calls upon us at a moment of our choosing

David Attenborough

What humans do over the next 50 years will determine the fate of all life on the planet.

Curtis Jackson

He who fears fate lives like a coward

Curtis Jackson

2Pac wrote about life threatening situations after being shot so often, it made it seem like he was obsessed with it. He even wrote music and material that he left behind after he died that made reference to him dying already. I think the significance in that ties back to us knowing that that's our fate.

Confucius

The wheel of fortune turns round incessantly, and who can say to himself, I shall today be uppermost.

Daniel Woodrell

A person has to show some spirit -- fate just about never shines on chickenshits.

Curtis Sittenfeld

To remain alone did not seem to me a terrible fate, no worse than being falsely joined to another person.

Darin Strauss

Diminish the influence of fate

Darren Johnson

Your destiny is in your hands. Creating the life you want is only, and always, up to you.

David Levithan

Fate has a strange way of making plans.

David Levithan

It’s up to you, not fate. True. But it was also up to Lily. That was the trickiest part.

Anna Seward

Suffer not thy wrongs to shroud thy fate, But turn, my soul, to blessings which remain.

Angelique Kidjo

Don't let anyone define and decide for you fate.

Alfred Doblin

You shouldn't be a big shot about your fate. I'm an enemy of Destiny, I'm not a Greek, I'm a Berliner.

Alfred de Vigny

Perform your long and heavy task with energy, treading the path to which Fate has been pleased to call you.

Alfred de Musset

Taxes are a universal burden in moral as well as in civil life. There is not a pleasure, social or otherwise, which is not assessed by fate at its full value!

Alfred Adler

Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand it.

Angela Merkel

The euro is our common fate, and Europe is our common future.

Andrew Jackson

The bold effort the present (central) bank had made to control the government ... are but premonitions of the fate that await the American people should they be deluded into a perpetuation of this institution or the establishment of another like it.

Amy Tan

And I think now that fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention. But somehow, when you lose something you love, faith takes over. -Rose

Amy Tan

Fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention.

Amy Tan

I discovered that maybe it was fate all along, that faith was just an illusion that somehow you're in control.

Amy Tan

There's no hope. There's no reason to keep trying. Because you must. This is not hope. Not reason. This is your fate. This is your life, what you must do.

Amy Tan

Fate changes when you change your clothes.

Amory Lovins

Our energy future is choice, not fate. Oil dependence is a problem we need no longer have-and it's cheaper not to. U.S. oil dependence can be eliminated by proven and attractive technologies that create wealth, enhance choice, and strengthen common security.

Andre Breton

Over and above the various prejudices I acknowledge, the affinities I feel, the attractions I succumb to, the events which occur to me and to me alone- over and above a sum of movements I am conscious of making, of emotions I alone experience- I strive, in relation to other men, to discover the nature, if not the necessity, of my difference from them. Is it not precisely to the degree I become conscious of this difference that I shall recognize what I alone have been put on this earth to do, what unique message I alone may bear, so that I alone can answer for its fate?