Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

David O. Russell

What we assert, very often can become our reality. To some degree, everybody can try to shape and control their fate. Everybody picks an identity.

Anthony de Mello

To a woman who complained about her destiny the Master said, "It is you who make your destiny." "But surely I am not responsible for being born a woman?" "Being born a woman isn't destiny. That is fate. Destiny is how you accept your womanhood and what you make of it."

Anna Garlin Spencer

Slowly ... the truth is dawning upon women, and still more slowly upon men, that woman is no stepchild of nature, no Cinderella of fate to be dowered only by fairies and the Prince; but that for her and in her, as truly as for and in man, life has wrought its great experiences, its master attainments, its supreme human revelations of the stuff of which worlds are made.

Anita Loos

Fate keeps on happening.

Andrew Sullivan

That's what torture does: it creates a miasma of unknowing, about as dangerous a situation in wartime as one can imagine. This hideous fate was made possible by an inexperienced president with a fundamentalist psyche and a paranoid and power-hungry vice-president who decided to embrace "the dark side" almost as soon as the second tower fell, and who is still trying to avenge Nixon. Until they are both gone from office, we are in grave danger the kind of danger that only torturers and fantasists and a security strategy based on coerced evidence can conjure up.

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

Fate has a twisted sense of humor.

There are no little events in life, those we think of no consequence may be full of fate, and it is at our own risk if we neglect the acquaintances and opportunities that seem to be casually offered, and of small importance.

Anthony Horowitz

Was it fate? Was it destiny?" "I think it was Alan Blunt.

Alice Hoffman

Some fates are guaranteed, no matter who tries to intervene.

Cliff Burton

Personally, I would say the 'master' of this whole thing is fate... Whoever is on the playing field is fair game, and it's up to them to avoid being used.

Dante Alighieri

I, answering in the end, began: 'Alas, how many yearning thoughts, what great desire, have lead them through such sorrow to their fate?

Dante Alighieri

Fate's arrow, when expected, travels slow.

Dan Simmons

Fate and victory shift ... now this way, now that way -- like a line of unarmored men under a hail of enemy arrows.

Corliss Lamont

We do not ask to be born; and we do not ask to die. But born we are and die we must. We come into existence and we pass out of existence. And in neither case does high-handed fate await our ratification of its decree.

Cormac McCarthy

Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.

Dwight L. Moody

A missions conference is a business meeting to decide the fate of the heathen.

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.