No Fate Quotes

O, to bring back the great Homeric time, The simple manners and the deed sublime: When the wise Wanderer, often foiled by Fate, Through the long furrow drave the ploughshare straight.

Bottle, whose Mysterious Deep Do's ten thousand Secrets keep, With attentive Ear I wait; Ease my Mind, and speak my Fate.

Each of us as he receives his private trouncings at the hands of fate is kept in good heart by hearing of the moth in his brother's parachute and the scorpion in his neighbor's underwear.

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

If the art of war were nothing but the art of avoiding risks, glory would become the prey of mediocre minds.... I have made all the calculations; fate will do the rest.

The fate of a Nation may sometimes depend upon the position of a fortress.

The starry brocade of the summer night Is linked to us as part of our estate; And every bee that wings its sidelong flight Assurance of a sweeter, fairer fate.

It is the fate of operating systems to become free.

I remain unconvinced that anything other than rapid decomposition is the fate of my body and mind after death.

I would not despair unless I knew the irrevocable decree was passed; saw my misfortune recorded in the book of fate, and signed and sealed by neces-sity.

The idea that people should be allowed to decide something about their own fate is just anathema to European elites.

God like Us suffers the ambition to make a destiny more extraordinary than was conceived for Him, yes God is like Me, only more so.

We like to think that the fate of the Earth and the fate of human worlds are the same thing, but we're not as important as that.

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.

The heart is its own Fate.

Oh, how sweet it is to pity the fate of an enemy who can no longer threaten us!

When I stand and contemplate my fate and see the path along which you have led me, I reach my end, for artless I surrendered to one who is my undoing and my end.

Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith.

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

I have complete artistic control, and I just do my best album every time and trust it to fate.

With the world's fate resting on your shoulder - you're gonna need someone on your side. You can't do it by yourself any longer - you're gonna need someone on your side.

There is no armour against fate.

The cheap drama brings cause and effect, will power and action, once more into relation and gives a man the thrilling conviction that he may yet be master of his fate.

Fate has terrible power. You cannot escape it by wealth or war. No fort will keep it out, no ships outrun it.

It is God's giving if we laugh or weep.

If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.

Which reminds me of a fortune cookie: you often find your destiny on the path you take to avoid it.

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.

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

Fate rules the affairs of men, with no recognizable order.

But I marry myself. I take my fate as within.

In my life, all of the best things that have happened to me have almost invariably been accidents or fate.

Can you make a mistake and miss your fate?

To have united the purposes of an entire Nation, is the great historical achievement of the man in whose strong hands our President has placed the fate of our people.

Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, roll darkly down the torrent of his fate.

London! the needy villain's general home, The common sewer of Paris and of Rome! With eager thirst, by folly or by fate, Sucks in the dregs of each corrupted state.

The natural state of a start-up is to die; most start-ups require multiple miracles in their early days to escape this fate.

Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations.

Fate was dealing from the bottom of the deck.

I tried very hard. But I can't help it. The Fates are cruel. They sent you to me, my brave one, knowing that you would break my heart.

Had I not sinned what would there be for you to pardon. My fate has given you the opportunity for mercy.

I guess you can stay sort of true to the story; you don't have to artificially bring the character back from whatever doom you've designed for them, you can tell the story, I suppose, honestly.

10:38 AM - Third period. Kaylee has no class this period. I have no one to kill. Coincidence, or fate?

What we call fate does not come into us from the outside, but emerges from us.

Fate loves to invent patterns and designs. Its difficulty lies in complexity. But life itself is difficult because of its simplicity. It has only a few things of a grandeur not fit for us.

God overrules all mutinous accidents, brings them under His laws of fate, and makes them all serviceable to His purpose.

Fate, then, is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought; for causes which are unpenetrated.

The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.

It's our destiny to explore. It's our destiny to be a space-faring nation.

Looking backward always presents an overdetermined depiction of fate; by this perspective we leave out of focus the possibilities of action which existed at the time.