Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Steyn

To expect the government to save you is to be a bystander in your own fate.

Nancy Farmer

But I also know that to ignore joy while it lasts, in favor of lamenting one's fate, is a great crime.

Philip Roth

--nor had I understood til then how the shameless vanity of utter fools can so strongly determine the fate of others

Philip James Bailey

Fulfill thy fate! Be-do-bear-and thank God.

Philip James Bailey

Obey thy genius, for a minister it is unto the throne of fate. Draw to thy soul, and centralize the rays which are around of the Divinity.

Paulo Coelho

Whenever I refused to follow my fate, something very hard to bear would happen in my life.

Mark Akenside

The immortal mind, superior to his fate, amid the outrage of external things, firm as the solid base of this great world, rests on his own foundation. Blow, ye winds! Ye waves! ye thunders! roll your tempests on! Shake, ye old pillars of the marble sky! Till at its orbs and all its worlds of fire be loosen'd from their seats; yet still serene, the unconquer'd mind looks down upon the wreck; and ever stronger as the storms advance, firm through the closing ruin holds is way, when nature calls him to the destin'd goal.

Meghan O'Rourke

We have an idea - a very modern idea - that dying is undignified. But I think this is because we have the illusion that we can control our bodies and our fates.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

You of all beings know how fate works. What happened to you as a human happened because everyone from your parents on down tried to circumvent what was supposed to be – which ultimately was the destruction of the Atlantean pantheon. There was no changing that prophecy. But the way you suffered was completely unnecessary. Had your parents embraced their true destiny, you would have been saved years of torment. Fate will not be denied. We can sculpt it, but in the end we’re all pawns to our final destinies. Good, bad, or indifferent. (Savitar)

Terence

How unfair the fate which ordains that those who have the least should be always adding to the treasury of the wealthy.

Nora Roberts

Niall: We're tossed by the winds of fate. Once we end where they blow us, we make of ourselves that we will.

Nora Roberts

Fate. You could never anticipate it.

Nora Roberts

To fate and the strange way that it twists us all together.

Nikola Tesla

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.

Marianne Williamson

I do know middle age can bring greater depth, greater wisdom, greater capacity for love, greater capacity for relationship, greater consciousness and desire to serve and awareness of the fate of mankind - all these wonderful things, yes. And I know I'm getting there.

Mark Kurlansky

Fate likes to tease paranoids.'

Mason Cooley

Rage against the world, if you like, but quietly, or the Guardians will awake.

Mason Cooley

Fortuna likes to find a crowd and follow it.

Mason Cooley

Thought enables us to see Fate coming.

Mason Cooley

The powerless worship Luck and Fate.

Dana Carvey

My fate is very precarious, ... I don't want the show to suffer because I may not be able to come back next week.

James Cameron

The future is not set. There is no fate but what we make.

George Washington

The fate of unborn millions will now depend, under God, on the courage and conduct of this army. We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die.

Jeanette Winterson

I knew it like destiny, and at the same time, I knew it as choice.

H. G. Wells

Losing your way on a journey is unfortunate. But, losing your reason for the journey is a fate more cruel.

Jean de La Fontaine

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

Gregory David Roberts

If fate doesn't make you laugh, you just don't get the joke.

Gloria Estefan

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

One should treat one's fate as one does one's health; enjoy it when it is good, be patient with it when it is poor, and never attempt any drastic cure save as an ultimate resort.

Horace

With equal pace, impartial Fate Knocks at the palace, as the cottage gate.

Homer

Jove lifts the golden balances that show The fates of mortal men, and things below.

Virgil

Wherever the fates lead us let us follow.

Abraham Clark

Our fates are in the hands of An Almighty God, to whom I can with pleasure confide my own; he can save us, or destroy us; his Councils are fixed and cannot be disappointed, and all his designs will be Accomplished.