No Fate Quotes
Even the wisest man grows tense With some sort of violence Before he can accomplish fate, Know his work or choose his mate. Poet and sculptor, do the work, Nor let the modish painter shirk
No people are uninteresting. Their fate is like the chronicles of planets. Nothing in them is not particular, and planet is dissimilar from planet.
But what is to be the fate of the great wen of all? The monster, called, by the silly coxcombs of the press, "the metropolis of the empire"?
One of the aphorisms occurred to me now and I wrote it under the picture: "Fate and temperament are two words for one and the same concept." That was clear to me now.
Sail on ship of state, sail on, I union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, with all its hopes of future years, is hanging on thy fate!
The fate of the worm refutes the pretended ethical teaching of the proverb, which assumes to illustrate the advantage of early rising and does so by showing how extremely dangerous it is.
Life flows on over death as water closes over a stone dropped into a pool. ... Fate is certain; death is certain; but the courage and nobility of men and women matter more than these.
Trouble is the next best thing to enjoyment; there is no fate in the world so horrible as to have no share in either its joys or sorrows.
When you say yes to life, you attract divine guidance. When you're inspired, you're collaborating with fate. Everything starts working for you.
O sir, you are old; nature in you stands on the very verge of her confine; you should be ruled and led by some discretion, that discerns your fate better than you yourself.
It did not matter, after all. He was only one man. One man's fate is not important. "If it is not, what is?" He could not endure those remembered words.
In the greater part of humankind there resides an instinct for survival. It is this which can clutch at straws and effect a rescue from them. It is this which can, now and then, outwit fate.
In the first instance, therefore, global terrorism created a kind of global community sharing a common fate, something we had previously considered impossible.
But by the time that I had nothing left, I myself was the lightest thing of all for fate to get rid of.
We cannot bear to regard ourselves simply as playthings of blind chance, we cannot admit to feeling ourselves abandoned.
Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
Muslim delegates concerned about rights in Palestine could have brought their enthusiasm closer to home by addressing the fate of black Christians being slaughtered and enslaved in the Sudan.
Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind.
What is a modern poet's fate? / To write his thoughts upon a slate; / The critic spits on what is done, / Gives it a wipe - and all is gone.
To make a fortune some assistance from fate is essential. Ability alone is insufficient.
A movie has its own fate, which often doesn’t depend on the performances of the director and actors.
O happy, happy each man whom predestined fate leads to the holy rite of hill and mountain worship.
Oh God! that one might read the book of fate, And see the revolution of the times Make mountains level, and the continent, Weary of solid firmness, melt itself Into the sea.
Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free.
Peace without Justice is a low estate, A coward cringing to an iron Fate! But Peace through Justice is the great ideal, We'll pay the price of war to make it real.
We cannot conquer fate and necessity, yet we can yield to them in such a manner as to be greater than if we could.
Sometimes there are historical moments when a country's course could be turned one way or the other, when fate can be escaped.
Fate is a manifestation of natural causes. That's it. It's not a conscious entity. It has no plan.
The tragedy of Karbala decided not only the fate of the Caliphate, but also of Mohammadan kingdoms long after the Caliphate had waned and disappeared.
He seems to me to be headed for his ideal fate, which is compulsive psychosis dashed with a jigger of psychopathic irresponsibility and violence
Our wills and fates do so contrary run, That our devices still are overthrown; Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own.
Fate is the friend of the good, the guide of the wise, the tyrant of the foolish, the enemy of the bad.
If fate is a millstone, we are the grist. There is nothing we can do. So I wish for strength. If I cannot protect them from the wheel,then give me a strong blade, and enough strength, to shatter fate
Whether it's destiny or fate or whatever, I don't think I could do a French Laundry anywhere else.
Where do murderers go, man! Who's to doom, when the judge himself is dragged to the bar?
It is past time for women to take their rightful place, side by side with men, in the rooms where the fates of peoples, where their children's and grandchildren's fates, are decided.
The New Testament, they tell us, is founded upon the prophecies of the Old; if so, it must follow the fate of its foundation.
if the world go wrong, it was, in some off-hand manner, never meant to go right.
If it's ka it'll come like a wind, and your plans will stand before it no more than a barn before a cyclone
Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.
Surely if we knew what bitterness fate held in store, we would shrink back in fear and let the cup of life pass us by untasted.
And here he was, a little halfling from the Shire, a simple hobbit of the quiet countryside, expected to find a way where the great ones could not go, or dared not go. It was an evil fate.
Dreams are what guide us, art is what defines us, math is what makes it all possible, and love is what lights our way.