Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shakespeare

He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear His hopes 'bove wisdom, grace and fear: And you all know, security Is mortals' chiefest enemy.

Octavio Paz

To the poet fated to be a poet, self-expression is as natural and as involuntary as breathing is to us ordinary mortals.

Curtis Sittenfeld

To remain alone did not seem to me a terrible fate, no worse than being falsely joined to another person.

Darin Strauss

Diminish the influence of fate

Darren Johnson

Your destiny is in your hands. Creating the life you want is only, and always, up to you.

David Levithan

Fate has a strange way of making plans.

David Levithan

It’s up to you, not fate. True. But it was also up to Lily. That was the trickiest part.

David O. Russell

What we assert, very often can become our reality. To some degree, everybody can try to shape and control their fate. Everybody picks an identity.

The grand jury obviously saw that they would have suffered the same fate if it were any other driver.

A nation is a totality of men united through community of fate into a community of character.

Cliff Burton

Personally, I would say the 'master' of this whole thing is fate... Whoever is on the playing field is fair game, and it's up to them to avoid being used.

Dante Alighieri

I, answering in the end, began: 'Alas, how many yearning thoughts, what great desire, have lead them through such sorrow to their fate?

Dante Alighieri

Fate's arrow, when expected, travels slow.

Dan Simmons

Fate and victory shift ... now this way, now that way -- like a line of unarmored men under a hail of enemy arrows.

Corliss Lamont

We do not ask to be born; and we do not ask to die. But born we are and die we must. We come into existence and we pass out of existence. And in neither case does high-handed fate await our ratification of its decree.

Cormac McCarthy

Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.

Dwight L. Moody

A missions conference is a business meeting to decide the fate of the heathen.

We've got to get better. We had four or five scoring opportunities. When you have two tipped passes that would have been completions that go for interceptions and hurt you, well, fate is not with you that day.

Pierre Corneille

He should be envied Who when his strength is spent lays down his life. Old age reserves a melancholy fate For noble souls before their life is done.

Kazuo Ishiguro

Perhaps there are those who are able to go about their lives unfettered by such concerns. But for those like us, our fate is to face the world as orphans, chasing through long years the shadows of vanished parents. There is nothing for it but to try and see through our missions to the end, as best we can, for until we do so, we will be permitted no calm.

Kin Hubbard

Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.

William Shakespeare

This day's black fate on more days doth depend; This but begins the woe, others must end.

William Shakespeare

what cannot be saved when fate takes, patience her injury a mockery makes

Katherine Anne Porter

all working, practical political systems, even those professing to originate in moral grandeur, are based upon and operate by contempt of human life and the individual fate ...