Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brandon Boyd

Put down your hollow tips and kiss your lovers lips and learn that fate is what you make of it

Ben Okri

The road will never swallow you. The river of destiny will always overcome evil. May you understand your fate. Suffering will never destroy you, but will make you stronger. Success will never confuse you of scatter your spirit, but will make you fly higher into the good sunlight. Your life will always surprise you.

Benito Mussolini

Statesman only talk of fate when they have blundered

Benito Mussolini

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.

Benjamin Disraeli

A person's fate is their own temper.

Brian Jacques

Fate is fickle, and the company of unwilling friends short lived.

Jane Austen

I am rather impatient to know the fate of my best gown.

Jane Austen

Marianne Dashwood was born to an extraordinary fate. She was born to discover the falsehood of her own opinions, and to counteract, by her conduct, her most favourite maxims.

Dean Koontz

Fate cannot be sidestepped or outrun.

Boethius

He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate, and set proud death beneath his feet, can look fortune in the face, unbending both to good and bad; his countenance unconquered.

Dennis Ritchie

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

Dean Kamen

We are in a race between knowledge and catastrophe. If we keep track of what is important, never lower our standards or forget why we are here, we have the ability to determine the fate of the world.

Edmund Clarence Stedman

Alas, by what rude fate Our lives, like ships at sea, an instant meet, Then part forever on their courses fleet.

Edmund Burke

The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.

Elie Wiesel

Perhaps fate isn't blind after all. Perhaps it's capable of fantasy, even compassion.

Elbert Hubbard

Wealth: A cunning device of Fate whereby men are made captive, and burdened with responsibilites from which only Death can file their fetters.

Bobby Miller

While the parasite, Ariel Sharon, was talking about turning Palestinians into a pastrami sandwich, fate turned Sharon into a vegetable.

You have got to play the game with the cards that have been dealt to you, and it is of no use for you to bewail your fate because you don't hold different ones. Look them over, arrange them, and play. You certainly must play them before you will get any others, and you need never expect to have other people's cards.

For man is man and master of his fate.

Stephen Jay Gould

Obsolescence is a fate devoutly to be wished, lest science stagnate and die.

Fate is not the ruler, but the servant of Providence.

Publilius Syrus

Fate is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity.

Fate had it that he was going to hit those threes.

Throw a lucky man into the sea, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth.

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

The only way you can influence your fate is to put your soul into your performance and hope it registers with the audience.

Abraham Lincoln

Talk to the jury as though your client's fate depends on every word you utter.

Anita Baker

I say if it's going to be done, let's do it. Let's not put it in the hands of fate. Let's not put it in the hands of someone who doesn't know me. I know me best. Then take a breath and go ahead.

Ani Difranco

fate is not just whose cooking smells good, but which way the wind blows

Andrew Marvell

But Fate does iron wedges drive, And always crowds itself betwixt.

Ally Carter

...there was no such thing as curses. People make and break their own fortunes -they are the masters of their own fate.

Andrea Bocelli

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.

Alexander Hamilton

States, like individuals, who observe their engagements, are respected and trusted: while the reverse is the fate of those who pursue an opposite conduct.

Alexander Fleming

I have been trying to point out that in our lives chance may have an astonishing influence and, if I may offer advice to the young laboratory worker, it would be this-never neglect an extraordinary appearance or happening. It may be-usually is, in fact-a false alarm that leads to nothing, but may on the other hand be the clue provided by fate to lead you to some important advance.