Quotes about fate
fate hands happiness himself material miserable prosperity puts
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. Don Marquis
fate artist effort
No fate holds more splendour for an artist, than the one which greets his effort with such enthousiasm! Carl Maria von Weber
fate certainty-in-life manipulate
I realized that there are no certainties in life. You can't manipulate fate. Bethenny Frankel
fate men two
There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learned to separate them. Bernard Berenson
fate organization ideas
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. Arnold Schoenberg
fate greatness men
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. Bertrand Russell
fate grace enemy
He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear His hopes 'bove wisdom, grace and fear: And you all know, security Is mortals' chiefest enemy. William Shakespeare
fated poet
To the poet fated to be a poet, self-expression is as natural and as involuntary as breathing is to us ordinary mortals. Octavio Paz
fate given matter might premature seemed team
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.
fate destiny men
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. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
fate destiny bones
I have a bone to pick with Fate
fate fighting fills folly last lays lively sunday theme
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.
fate sealed senior
For the senior leadership, there is no way out ... their fate has been sealed by their actions. Donald Rumsfeld
fates human
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. Jared Diamond
fate cedars coincidence
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. David Guterson
fate thinking other-worlds
By exploring other worlds we safeguard this one. By itself, I think this fact more than justifies the money our species has spent in sending ships to other worlds. It is our fate to live during one of the most perilous and, at the same time, one of the most hopeful chapters in human history. Carl Sagan
fate air climate-action
Anything else you're interested in is not going to happen if you can't breathe the air and drink the water. Don't sit this one out. Do something. You are by accident of fate alive at an absolutely critical moment in the history of our planet.
fate men decision
Fate has to do with events in history that are the summary and unintended results of innumerable decisions of innumerable men. C. Wright Mills
fate years best-year
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.
fate destiny ifs
It is not that things happen to each of us according to his fate, but that he interprets what has happened, if he has power to do so, according to his sense of his own destiny . Cesare Pavese
fate sick desire
The problem is not the harshness of Fate, for anything we want strongly enough we get. The trouble is rather that when we have it we grow sick of it, and then we should never blame Fate, only our own desire.
fate important kind
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. Cary Fowler
fate reality want
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! Carole Lombard
fate desire puppets
Julian once wrote that coincidences are the scars of fate. There are no coincidences, Daniel. We are puppets of our subconscious desires. Carlos Ruiz Zafon
fate scar coincidence
Coincidences are the scars of fate.
fate months faces
Every month, it is woman's fate to face the abyss of time and being, the abyss which is herself. Camille Paglia
fate hands lemonade
When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make a lemonade Dale Carnegie
fate thinking people
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. Agnes de Mille
fate forget-you strive
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. Charlotte Bronte
fate destiny hands
We are all puppets in the hands of fate and seldom see the strings... Charles W. Chesnutt
fate leader always-alone
The leader is always alone before bad fates. Charles de Gaulle
fate healthy feelings
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. Akio Morita
fate bonus share
the company must not throw money away on huge bonuses for executives or other frivolities but must share its fate with the workers.