Fate Quotes - Page 12

• Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.

  Daniel Handler

  I Hate You, Humor, Littles

  "The Slippery Slope". Book by Daniel Handler, 2003.

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• Our destiny hides among our free choices, disguised as the free-est of all.

  Robert Breault

  Destiny, Choices, Free Choice

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• Fate steals along with silent tread, Found oftenest in what least we dread; Frowns in the storm with angry brow, But in the sunshine strikes the blow.

  William Cowper

  Sunshine, Blow, Storm

  William Cowper, James Thomson (1832). “The Works of Cowper and Thompson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never Before Published in this Country. With a New and Interesting Memoir of the Life of Thomson”, p.118

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• Maybe our mistakes are what make our fate. Without them, what would shape our lives? Perhaps, if we never veered off course, we wouldn't fall in love or have babies or be who we are.

  Michael Patrick King

  Baby, Falling In Love, Mistake

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• No man can be stronger than his destiny.

  Mary Hunter Austin

  Destiny, Men, Stronger

  Mary Hunter Austin, Marjorie Pryse (1987). “Stories from the Country of Lost Borders”, p.24, Rutgers University Press

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• Let the moment come when nothing is left but life, and you will find that you do not hesitate over the fate of material possessions.

  Eddie Rickenbacker

  Moments, Possession, Materials

  Jessie Alford Nunn, Robert J. Donovan, Eddie Rickenbacker, Leland Stowe, James Albert Michener (1966). “Four complete true adventures”

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• The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.

  Bertrand Russell

  Death, Time, Slavery

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “Mysticism and Logic”, p.85, Bertrand Russell

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• Sometimes life has a cruel sense of humor, giving you the thing you always wanted at the worst time possible.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Heartbreak, Giving, Worst Times

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.549, St. Martin's Press

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• But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?

  Alexander Pope

  Destiny, Blind, States

  Alexander Pope (1835). “The works of Alexander Pope; with a memoir of the author, notes [&c.] by G. Croly”, p.126

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• Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life, and you know not whether for good or ill.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Steps, Dramatic, Moments

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “Sherlock Holmes. The best stories”, p.711, "Издательство ""Проспект"""

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• Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

  Omar Khayyam

  Life, Wise, Wisdom

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• 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.

  Salman Rushdie

  Nature, Firsts, Exile

  Salman Rushdie (1989). “The Satanic Verses”, New York, N.Y. : Viking

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• Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate.

  Alexander Pope

  Book, Heaven, Creatures

  Alexander Pope (1820). “An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to H. St. John Lord Bolinbroke. To which are Added the Universal Prayer, Messiah, and Elegy”, p.7

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• It is usually more important how a man meets his fate than what it is.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Men, Important

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• If you do not create your destiny,
  you will have your fate inflicted upon you.

  William Irwin Thompson

  Moving On, Moving Forward, Destiny

  William Irwin Thompson (2001). “Transforming History: A Curriculum for Cultural Evolution”, Lindisfarne Press

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• Every immigrant family, it seems, has someone who does not belong in the new country they have come to. It feels like permanent exile to that one brother or wife who cannot stand a silent fate in Boston or London or Melbourne. I’ve met many who remain haunted by the persistent ghost of an earlier place.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Country, Brother, Boston

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• I don't believe in fate, because I'm not spiritual, but things do seem to work out.

  Rob Zombie

  Spiritual, Believe, Work Out

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• We have all experienced times when, instead of being buffeted by anonymous forces, we do feel in control of our actions, masters of our own fate. On the rare occasions that it happens, we feel a sense of exhilaration, a deep sense of enjoyment that is long cherished and that becomes a landmark in memory for what life should be like.. moments like these are not the passive, receptive, relaxing timesthe best moments usually occur when a person’s body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Memories, Long, Effort

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• Each one of us must in the end choose for himself how far he would like to leave our collective fate to the wayward vagaries of popular assemblies For myself it would be most irksome to be ruled by a bevy of Platonic Guardians, even if I knew how to choose them, which I assuredly do not I should miss the stimulus of living in a society where I have, at least theoretically, some part in the direction of public affairs.

  Learned Hand

  Missing, Would Be, Affair

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• If what matters in a person's existence is to accept the inevitable consciously, to taste the good and bad to the full and to make for oneself a more individual, unaccidental and inward
  destiny alongside one's external fate, then my life has been neither empty nor worthless.

  Hermann Hesse

  Destiny, What Matters, Inward

  Hermann Hesse (1969). “Gertrude”

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• Things are where things are, and, as fate has willed,
  So shall they be fulfilled.

  Robert Browning

  Fulfilled

  Robert Browning (2015). “Complete Plays of Robert Browning”, p.749, e-artnow sro

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• The perverseness of my fate is such that he's not mine because he's mine too much.

  John Dryden

  Too Much, Mines, Perverseness

  John Dryden, Paul Hammond, David Hopkins (2007). “Dryden: Selected Poems”, p.746, Pearson Education

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• How wisely fate ordain'd for human kind Calamity! which is the perfect glass, Wherein we truly see and know ourselves.

  Bill Vaughan

  Glasses, Perfect, Kind

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• Monuments, like men, submit to fate.

  Alexander Pope

  Men, Submit, Monument

  Alexander Pope (1849). “Letters of Alexander Pope Works and Arranged Expresly for the Use Young People”, p.70

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• Fate shall yield
  To fickle Chance, and Chaos judge the strife.

  John Milton

  Yield, Judging, Fickle

  John Milton (1866). “Milton's Paradise Lost”, p.34

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