Fate Quotations | Page 2

Whether it's destiny or fate or whatever, I don't think I could do a French Laundry anywhere else.

It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity.

That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can't extend its domain.

To our Palestinian neighbours, I assure you that we have a genuine intention to respect your right to live independently and in dignity. I have already said that Israel has no desire to continue to govern over you and control your fate.

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

Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.

When good befalls a man he calls it Providence, when evil fate.

And if you cannot remain indifferent, you must resolve to throw your weight into that balance in which the fate and condition of man is weighed.

The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.

The minute you start to strategize too much, the more you start to think you're in control of your own fate. And you're not, really.

Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.

It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

I can't recall any difficulty in making the C language definition completely open - any discussion on the matter tended to mention languages whose inventors tried to keep tight control, and consequent ill fate

Many other countries in this world are in a difficult situation, and all the Thai people are probably worried about the fate of Thailand: whether the country would survive or not.

To bare our souls is all we ask, to give all we have to life and the beings surrounding us. Here the nature spirits are intense and we appreciate them, make offerings to them - these nature spirits who call us here - sealing our fate with each other, celebrating our love.

I never thought of myself as either a woman or a man. I thought of myself as a person who was born to a writer, who was doomed to be a writer.

My whole life has been decided by fate.

America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description.

The fate of a child is in the hands of his parents.

Borders had lousy management and made bad corporate decisions, so its fate is less like a terrible accident than a slow-motion slide into a ditch, but it's hard to be happy about a bookseller's demise.

Fate is never too generous even to its favorites. Rarely do the gods grant a mortal more than one immortal deed.

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.

I think we all have our own mission, duty, fate in life so for me somehow I think I am always walking on the edge of life and take risks.

Do you feel bored and stuck in a rut? Is work drudgery? If so, you are spending far too much time bemoaning your fate and how the universe is not cooperating with your desires. Be present with and in your current situation.

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

Because of my intense hopes for the youth of China, I feel very keenly my responsibility for their future success or failure. The fate of China lies in their hands. The responsibility for organizing and training them to become worthy citizens of China, able to undertake the tasks of Resistance and Reconstruction, is mine; I cannot evade it.

In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.

Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived?

I have never seen such extreme partisanship, such bitter partisanship, and such forgetfulness of the fate of our fathers and of the Constitution.

My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.

The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.

I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your ruin, and to the ruin of our children. I give you this warning that you may prepare your mind for your fate.

All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet. It must be this voice that is telling me to do something, and I am sure it's the same voice that is speaking to everybody on this planet - at least everybody who seems to be concerned about the fate of the world, the fate of this planet.

It goes without saying that the Jewish people can have no other goal than Palestine and that, whatever the fate of the proposition may be, our attitude toward the land of our fathers is and shall remain unchangeable

Character and fate are two words for the same thing

Love is not in our choice but in our fate.

I generally wade in blind and trust to fate and instinct to see me through.

You can approach 'The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death' in a variety or combination of ways: as a startlingly eccentric hobby; as a series of unresolved murder mysteries; as the manifestation of one woman's peculiar psychic life; as a lesson in forensics; as a metaphor for the fate of women; as a photographic study.

Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate.

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.

Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.

Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time they have left.

By an irony of fate, my first employment was as a draughtsman. I hated drawing; it was for me the very worst of annoyances. Fortunately, it was not long before I secured the position I sought, that of chief electrician to the telephone company.

So I constantly play women who are damaged and out of touch, who are seeking without knowing, or knowing without the skills to transform their lives. But then, that's really the fate of many women today.

In the first instance, therefore, global terrorism created a kind of global community sharing a common fate, something we had previously considered impossible.

Often, I dream about work. For instance, the night before the Oscars, I dreamt about the Oscars and I dreamt about who I wanted to interview. Interestingly, one of the people I really wanted to interview was Keanu Reeves, and then we got him. We had never interviewed him before, so that was lucky. Or maybe it was fate - I don't know.

All that is not perfect down to the smallest detail is doomed to perish.

Despite elections and the experience of post-Soviet personal freedoms by the Russian people, the fate of democracy in Russia is perhaps more ambiguous now than at any time since the collapse of the Communist system.

Love cannot save you from your own fate.

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

People without firmness of character love to make up a fate for themselves; that relieves them of the necessity of having their own will and of taking responsibility for themselves.

An evil fate has deprived me of the full use of my right hand, so that I am not able to play my compositions as I feel them. The trouble with my hand is that certain fingers have become so weak, probably through writing and playing too much at one time, that I can hardly use them.

My intention is to ask the courts and people of Hong Kong to decide my fate.

Actors work and slave and it is the color of your hair that can determine your fate in the end.

What interests me is the surprising enormous extent to which most people accept the fate that's been given to them, and find some dignity.

It is nobody's right to be waited on and nobody's fate to do the waiting.

I think 'destiny' is just a fancy word for a psychological pattern.

History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

The admiral, or commander in chief of a squadron, being frequently invested with a great charge, on which the fate of a kingdom may depend, ought certainly to be possessed of abilities equal to so important a station and so extensive a command.

In the original computer game of Doom, you not only have to kill things. You have to pulverise them.

We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.

I'm not a big believer in a thing called luck. I believe it has a lot to do with fate and just really having a vision of the way you would see your life.

Storytelling is the only studio movie where the censorship is perfectly clear, the only studio movie with a big red box covering up a shot. I take pride in that - and, of course, in having avoided the fate of Eyes Wide Shut.

The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.

I am convinced the prophets of doom have to be taken seriously.

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom.

Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out til too late that he's been playing with two queens all along.

Casting sometimes is fate and destiny more than skill and talent, from a director's point of view.

I think quite often a fate worse than death is life - for lots of people.

I don't believe in fate, because I'm not spiritual, but things do seem to work out.

The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off.

The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the 'disenchantment of the world.' Precisely the ultimate and most sublime values have retreated from public life either into the transcendental realm of mystic life or into the brotherliness of direct and personal human relations. It is not accidental that our greatest art is intimate and not monumental.

It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe.

Gentle reader, the Fountain of Youth is radioactive, and those who imbibe its poisonous heavy waters will suffer the hideous fate of decaying metal. Yet almost without exception, the wretched idiot inhabitants of our benighted planet would gulp down this radioactive excrement if it were offered.

I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.

The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.

I actually wanted to be a doctor. But doing all those horrid rat dissections made me faint. I studied science till the 12th standard and later took up commerce. I was planning to do chartered accountancy, but fate had something else in store for me.

I'm a believer in fate and in fulfilling your destiny. I've always had a kind of inner voice that I have learned to listen to.

The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain.

We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.

We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.

Anybody that wants to walk out that door and leave home for a few months and rely on themselves instead of fate might have some interesting stories to tell.

I'm eternally grateful to fate and the citizens of Russia that they've trusted me to be the head of the Russian government.

Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more; if future fortunes were known before!

Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.

I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay.

It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.

The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!

Destiny has a lot to do with it, but so do you. You have to persevere, you have to insist.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.

Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.

When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.

Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.

Can you make a mistake and miss your fate?

There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.

Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.

I'm just steadily building myself up as Kelly Rowland, not just Kelly Rowland of Destiny's Child, which is a blessing to be able to do that.