Fate Quotations | Page 3

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.

Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.

All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.

That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn't entirely conquer - he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation.

Oh, how sweet it is to pity the fate of an enemy who can no longer threaten us!

Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think.

Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon.

I'm not somebody that thinks about destiny and fate, but I don't walk away from it when something unfolds.

Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist.

Anyone working in the media can tell you that there seems to be an always-ready-to-explode segment of the populace for whom offense is a fate worse than anything imaginable. You'd think offense is one of the most calamitous things that could happen to a human being; right up there with the loss of a limb, or just missing a parking space.

Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.

Cabbies in particular seem to like discussing the fate the Earth.

I know I'm going to blow one day. My life is doomed the way it is. I have no future.

I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above; those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love.

It takes courage to sit on a jury. How many of us want to decide the fate of another person's life or freedom? How many of us want to hold that kind of power in our hands?

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

Where do murderers go, man! Who's to doom, when the judge himself is dragged to the bar?

As a nation we have the right to decide our own affairs, to mould our own future. This does not pose any danger to anybody. Our nation is fully aware of the responsibility for its own fate in the complicated situation of the contemporary world.

It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.

Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions.

American policy seems to be wed to a perpetual state of war. Why? History shows that the world will always be in flux or turmoil, with different peoples competing for visibility and power. The U.S. cannot fix the fate of every nation.

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.

Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny.

I don't believe in fate or destiny. I believe in various degrees of hatred, paranoia, and abandonment. However much of that gets heaped upon you doesn't matter - it's only a matter of how much you can take and what it does to you.

The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.

When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.

I was an agnostic until I realized that I had to choose between God and fate. The idea that humanity and nature are the result of fate was not convincing at all. I find the presence of God everywhere.

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed.

The havoc wrought by war, which one compares with the havoc wrought by nature, is not an unavoidable fate before which man stands helpless. The natural forces that are the cause of war are human passions, which it lies in our power to change. What are culture and civilization if not the taming of blind forces within us as well as in nature?

Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.

The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them.

To die for one's country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death.

It is the customary fate of new truths, to begin as heresies, and to end as superstitions.

It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.

Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!

It isn't fate but fecklessness that has shoved Sarah Palin to the sidelines of national politics. The real tragedy is that she's taken a lot of other serious Republican women with her.

They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.

The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.

Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.

Nature, I have constantly argued in my work, is the real superpower of this godless universe. It is the ultimate disposer of human fate, randomly recarving geography over 10,000-year epochs.

But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?

Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.

It is past time for women to take their rightful place, side by side with men, in the rooms where the fates of peoples, where their children's and grandchildren's fates, are decided.

It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

We are pleased with the court's decision giving shareholders their rightful opportunity to control the fate of their company,

There are casualties but the fate of the commander is not known yet. He was critically wounded.

We've battled hard, and because of that and a lot of fate, we have pulled out some close games.

We've avoided the fate of other bankrupt carriers. We're still in the game.

We're just starting to scratch the surface. The fate and power of e-mail marketing are strong.

We know what the ending is seriously. This is a show that demands an ending. We want to find out what is the fate of these people. Do they get off the island? What is the nature of the island? I mean there are some big fundamental questions that you want answered at the end of this show.

Fate, at first so amenable, so reasonable, so open to negotiation, ends up by exacting a cruel revenge for happiness.

The hands of Fate keep time on a heart-shaped watch." - Harkat Mulds(The Trials of Death)

If you’re in your life, chance. Viewed from the outside, like a book you’re reading, it’s fate all the way.

There are things in this universe that we cannot control, and then there are the things we can. . . . Let fate, coincidence, and accident conspire; human beings must act on reason.

Every great culture has cared a lot, one way or another, about the fate of its girls.

Fate has to do with events in history that are the summary and unintended results of innumerable decisions of innumerable men.

The life-fate of the modern individual depends not only upon the family into which he was born or which he enters by marriage, but increasingly upon the corporation in which he spends the most alert hours of his best years.

Any contemporary political re-statement of liberal and socialist goals must include as central the idea of a society in which all men would become men of substantive reason, whose independent reasoning would have structural consequences for their societies, its history and thus for their own life fates.

Most of us take seeds for granted. The fate of human kind is resting on these genetic resources: Seeds. So nothing could be more important.

I can’t imagine a duller fate than being the best dressed woman in reality. When I want to do something I don’t pause to contemplate whether I’m exquisitely gowned. I want to live, not pose!

Julian once wrote that coincidences are the scars of fate. There are no coincidences, Daniel. We are puppets of our subconscious desires.

In fact I don't think of literature, or music, or any art form as having a nationality. Where you're born is simply an accident of fate. I don't see why I shouldn't be more interested in say, Dickens, than in an author from Barcelona simply because I wasn't born in the UK. I do not have an ethno-centric view of things, much less of literature. Books hold no passports. There's only one true literary tradition: the human.

Coincidences are the scars of fate.

Every month, it is woman's fate to face the abyss of time and being, the abyss which is herself.

I view the prostitute as one of the few women who is totally in control of her fate, totally in control of the realm of sex. The lesbian feminists tried to take control of female sexuality away from men - but the prostitute was doing that all along.

Feminism has exceeded its proper mission of seeking political equality for women and has ended by rejecting contingency, that is, human limitation by nature or fate.

Enter upon thy paths, O year! Thy paths, which all who breathe must tread, Which lead the Living to the Dead, I enter; for it is my doom To tread thy labyrinthine gloom; To note who round me watch and wait; To love a few; perhaps to hate; And do all duties of my fate.

Wow. That's pretty neat. That is weird. Maybe there's some fate there.

No one could reach Amy Winehouse before it was too late. Can anyone reach Washington before it's too late? Both addicted - same fate?

I really believe that coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.

The fate of man is man.

Wyrd bith ful araed (Fate is inexorable).

The fate of all of us here has been to know that we are prisoners of power. No one knows why us in particular, but what a great fortune!

I am already given to the power that rules my fate. And I cling to nothing, so I will have nothing to defend. I have no thoughts, so I will see. I fear nothing, so I will remember myself. Detached and at ease, I will dart past the Eagle to be free.

We have no one to blame but ourselves. You play a lousy third quarter and give up a bunch of turnovers, you're going to tempt fate with that kind of play over a 12-minute period.

One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.

Wit is artificial; humor is natural. Wit is accidental; humor is inevitable. Wit is born of conscious effort; humor, of the allotted ironies of fate. Wit can be expressed only in language; humor can be developed sufficiently in situation.

To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate.

Now the pessimist proper is the most modest of men. ... under no circumstances does he presume to imagine that he, a mere unit of pain, can in any degree change or soften the remorseless words of fate.

All my heart is yours, sir: it belongs to you; and with you it would remain, were fate to exile the rest of me from your presence forever.

Mr. Rochester, I no more assign this fate to you than I grasp at it for myself. We were born to strive and endure - you as well as I: do so. You will forget me before I forget you.

Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.

It is hard work to control the workings of inclination and turn the bent of nature; but that it may be done, I know from experience. God has given us, in a measure, the power to make our own fate.

We are all puppets in the hands of fate and seldom see the strings...

Yes, it is Europe, from the Atlantic to the Urals, it is Europe, it is the whole of Europe, that will decide the fate of the world.

The leader is always alone before bad fates.

For when you see that the universe cannot be distinguished from how you act upon it, there is neither fate nor free will, self nor other. There is simply one all-inclusive Happening, in which your personal sensation of being alive occurs in just the same way as the river flowing and the stars shining far out in space. There is no question of submitting or accepting or going with it, for what happens in and as you is no different from what happens as it.

The Rudderless World is not shaped by vague metaphysical Forces. It is not God who kills the Children. Not Fate that butchers them or Destiny that feeds them to the Dogs. ... It´s us. Only us.

The most important mission for a Japanese manager is to develop a healthy relationship with his employees, to create a familylike feeling within the corporation, a feeling that employees and managers share the same fate.

the company must not throw money away on huge bonuses for executives or other frivolities but must share its fate with the workers.

When the injustice is great enough, justice will lend me the strength needed to correct it. None may stand against it. It will shatter every barrier, sunder any shield, tear through any enchantment, and lend its servant the power to pass sentence. Know this: There is nothing on all the Planes that can stay the hand of justice when it is brought against them. It may unmake armies. It may sunder the thrones of gods. Know that for all who betray justice, I am their fate. And fate carries an executioner's axe.

So long as it fated, fate didn't care what it fated.

Art goes into the world unarmed, vulnerable to every quirk of fate, and it must survive only by its power to move men not to destroy it.