Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wilhelm von Humboldt

How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.

Ludwig von Mises

It is evident that youth is the first victim of the trend toward bureaucratization. The young men are deprived of any opportunity to shape their own fate.

William Shakespeare

I have a bone to pick with Fate

The preacher, too, his Sunday theme lays down, To know what last new folly fills the town; Lively or sad, life's meanest, mightiest things, The fate of fighting cocks, or fighting king.

William Shakespeare

He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear His hopes 'bove wisdom, grace and fear: And you all know, security Is mortals' chiefest enemy.

Octavio Paz

To the poet fated to be a poet, self-expression is as natural and as involuntary as breathing is to us ordinary mortals.

Jared Diamond

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies.

Ricardo Sanchez

He was a tired man, ... Also, I think, a man resigned to his fate.

Charles Fort

The fate of all explanation is to close one door only to have another fly wide open.

Charles Bukowski

there's no chance at all: we are all trapped by a singular fate.

In July, 1892, fate suddenly granted me financial independence.

Alan Lightman

Everyone shares the same fate.

Alain de Botton

According to one influential wing of modern secular society there are few more disreputable fates than to end up being 'like everyone else' for 'everyone else' is a category that comprises the mediocre and the conformist, the boring and the suburban. The goal of all right-thinking people should be to mark themselves off from the crowd and 'stand out' in whatever way their talents allow.

Al Goldstein

So, if anatomy is destiny then testosterone is doom.

Al Gore

The fate of mankind, as well as religion, depends on the emergence of a new faith in the future. Armed with such a faith, we might find it possible to resanctify the earth.

Virgil

Our fate, whatever it is to be, will be overcome by patience under it.

Our fate rests in our own hands. And that's a good position to be in.

Donald Rumsfeld

For the senior leadership, there is no way out ... their fate has been sealed by their actions.

Dave Pelzer

Draw Support From Those You Know And Trust. Don't Leave Your Happiness To Fate.

Edwin Arnold

Yet who shall shut out Fate?

Big Pun

Power just makes you reject destiny and devour your fate.

Carl Maria von Weber

No fate holds more splendour for an artist, than the one which greets his effort with such enthousiasm!

Bethenny Frankel

I realized that there are no certainties in life. You can't manipulate fate.

Bernard Berenson

There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learned to separate them.

Arnold Schoenberg

The principal function of form is to advance our understanding. It is the organization of a piece which helps the listener to keep the idea in mind, to follow its development, its growth, its elaboration, its fate.

Bertrand Russell

A man who has once perceived, however temporarily and however briefly, what makes greatness of soul, can no longer be happy if he allows himself to be petty, self-seeking, troubled by trivial misfortunes, dreading what fate may have in store for him. The man capable of greatness of soul will open wide the windows of his mind, letting the winds blow freely upon it from every portion of the universe.

It has seemed premature to announce, and especially while indictments are still not only out but where there might be more coming, ... what the fate of the team will be. Of course, this is a matter that will be given the gravest consideration at the appropriate time.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

No destiny attacks us from outside. But, within him, man bears his fate and there comes a moment when he knows himself vulnerable; and then, as in a vertigo, blunder upon blunder lures him.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Fate is a sea without a shore, and the soul is a rock that abides.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

When fate has allowed to any man more than one great gift, accident or necessity seems usually to contrive that one shall encumber and impede the other.

Alfred Rosenberg

We bear a heavy and therefore a great destiny.

Alfred North Whitehead

The importance of an individual thinker owes something to chance. For it depends upon the fate of his ideas in the minds of his successors.

Alfred Jodl

My most profound confidence is however based upon the fact that at the head of Germany there stands a man by his entire development, his desires, and striving can only have been destined by fate to lead our people into a brighter future.