Fate Quotes - Page 14

• The source of each accordant strain
  Lies deeper than the Poet's brain.
  First from the people's heart must spring
  The passions which he learns to sing;
  They are the wind, the harp is he,
  To voice their fitful melody,--
  The language of their varying fate,
  Their pride, grief, love, ambition, hate,--
  The talisman which holds inwrought
  The touchstone of the listener's thought;
  That penetrates each vain disguise,
  And brings his secret to his eyes.

  Bayard Taylor

  Lying, Hate, Spring

  Bayard Taylor (1866). “The Poems”, p.111

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• The nation becomes the master of its fate not only when it has many good sons, but also when it possesses enough strength to restrain its bad ones.

  Roman Dmowski

  Son, Enough, Masters

  "Podstawy polityki polskiej", Przegląd Wszechpolski, 343, 349, 358-359, July 1905.

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• It is my melancholy fate to like so many people I profoundly disagree with and often heartily dislike people who agree with me.

  Mary Kingsley

  People, Opinion, Melancholy

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• Destiny is thrifty. To weave her tapestry, she uses even the tiniest snips of thread.

  Zelda Popkin

  Destiny, Use, Thrifty

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• Inequalities of Fate very curious. Should like, on this account, to believe in Reincarnation.

  E. M. Delafield

  Believe, Immortality, Reincarnation

  E. M. Delafield (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Delafield (Illustrated)”, p.2419, Delphi Classics

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• if the right man does not come along, there are many fates far worse. One is to have the wrong man come along.

  Letitia Baldrige

  Men, Dating, Doe

  Letitia Baldrige (1968). “Of Diamonds and Diplomats”, New York : Ballantine Books

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• To say you loved a person. / To say that person no longer exists. / A tragic flawed fate going on and on and on.

  Mary Jo Bang

  Grief, Tragic, Flawed

  Mary Jo Bang (2007). “Elegy: poems”, Graywolf Pr

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• All you need to do is write truly and not care about what the fate of it is.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Needs, Care

  Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.408, Simon and Schuster

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  I believe that every interaction is an act of fate in some way, that we're meant to interact with them, and it's our job to flesh that out and experience it to the fullest and learn the lessons we're meant to.

  Megan Fox

  Jobs, Believe, Lessons

  "What Megan Fox Looks for in a Man (and Turtle)". Interview with J. Rentilly, www.menshealth.com. August 8, 2014.

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• It took me years to learn that character is fate and that no one can be made over.

  Gertrude Atherton

  Character, Years, Made

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• people who seem most hostile to my presence are those most fearful of my fate. And since their fear keeps them emotionally distant from me, they are the ones least likely to learn that my life isn't half so dismal as they assume.

  Nancy Mairs

  People, Half, Assuming

  Nancy Mairs (2001). “Waist-High In The World: A Life Among the Nondisabled”, p.102, Beacon Press

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• Timing. We give it many names: Destiny, Fate, Kismet, the will of God. Whatever we call it, lives are changed and molded by it, in small or drastic ways beyond our control. The precise, exquisite influence of timing moves people into new positions as surely as a spring flood rearranges the landscape. It is as unavoidable as life.

  Helen Van Slyke

  Spring, Moving, Destiny

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• Let the die be cast.
  [Lat., Jacta alea esto; or, jacta esa alea.)

  Suetonius

  Casts, Dies

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• Thoughts! what are they? They are my constant friends, who, when harsh fate its dull brow bends, uncloud me with a smiling ray, and in the depth of midnight force a day.

  Thomas Flatman

  Rays, Depth, Midnight

  Thomas Flatman (1686). “Poems and songs”, p.66

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• I've shared the fate of many working mothers; I felt guilty like them.

  Valerie Trierweiler

  Mother, Guilty, Felt

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• I believe in fate. Sometimes that means an old bearded guy sitting on a cloud and pulling the strings; sometimes it means random atoms swirling through a cheerless universe; sometimes it means everything being preordained thanks to your karma credit from your previous lives.

  Kyle MacLachlan

  Karma, Believe, Mean

  "This much I know". Interview with Stuart Husband, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2008.

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• I'm not somebody that thinks about destiny and fate, but I don't walk away from it when something unfolds.

  Angelina Jolie

  Destiny, Thinking, Walks

  "Angelina Jolie: We’re A Very Grounded Home; I’m The Person Who Takes The Kids To Go Poop", www.huffingtonpost.com. January 22, 2013.

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• Fate is unpenetrated causes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Causes

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume II”, p.331

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• We can only obey our own polarity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Polarity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.24, Harvard University Press

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• Music the fiercest grief can charm,
  And fate's severest rage disarm. Music can soften pain to ease,
  And make despair and madness please;
  Our joys below it can improve,
  And antedate the bliss above.

  Alexander Pope

  Music, Pain, Grief

  Alexander Pope (1839). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope. Ed. by H.F. Cary, with a biogr. notice of the author”, p.15

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• By a certain fate, great acts, and great eloquence have most commonly gone hand in hand, equalling and honoring each other in the same ages.

  John Milton

  Greatness, Hands, Age

  John Milton (1866). “Treasures from the prose writings of John Milton”, p.389

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• Let's face it, there's no point in running away. I will find that person myself and I will change Saet Byul's fate

  Kim Soo-hyun

  Running, Faces, Persons

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• There is nothing cooler than having lines like, 'Batman, the fate of the world is upon us.' Who gets to say that? And who gets to say that in a deep, earnest, amazingly sexy way?

  Maggie Q

  Sexy, World, Lines

  "Young justice: Maggie Q is Wonder Woman" by Eric Goldman, www.ign.com. March 13,2012.

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• Today the fate of humankind is even more crucially linked than ever before. The boundaries between the problems of 'others' and 'our' problems are being increasingly erased.

  Janez Drnovsek

  Today, Problem, Boundaries

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• People know more about baseball players contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our childrens lives in twenty years. Think about it. People used to say, the whole time I was growing up, Do you want to bring a child into this world? Thats pretty dire.

  Jackson Browne

  Baseball, Growing Up, Children

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