Fate Quotes - Page 17

• But I also think all of the great stories in literature deal with loneliness. Sometimes it's by way of heartbreak, sometimes it's by way of injustice, sometimes it's by way of fate. There's an infinite number of ways to examine it.

  Tom Hanks

  Loneliness, Thinking, Numbers

  "Desert island risks". Interview with Danny Leigh, www.theguardian.com. January 12, 2001.

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• Actors work and slave and it is the color of your hair that can determine your fate in the end.

  Helen Hayes

  Hair, Color, Theatre

  "On Reflection". Book by Helen Hayes, Ch. 4, 1968.

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• It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.

  Eric Hoffer

  Frustration, Destiny, Giving

  Eric Hoffer (1955). “The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms”

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• Austerity need not be Europe's fate.

  Francois Hollande

  Europe, Needs, Austerity

  "François Hollande's chemistry with Angela Merkel crucial for Europe" by Ian Traynor, www.theguardian.com. May 06, 2012.

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• Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.

  Sidney Hook

  Teacher, Hook, Students

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• I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Destiny, Clay, Literature

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• What interests me is the surprising enormous extent to which most people accept the fate that's been given to them, and find some dignity.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  People, Dignity, Accepting

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• We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

  William James

  Life, Philosophical, Unendurable

  William James (1987). “Essays, Comments, and Reviews”, p.3, Harvard University Press

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• Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Inspirational, Blessed, Eye

  "Years of Upheaval: The Second Volume of His Classic Memoirs". Book by Henry Kissinger, 2011.

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• I always loved to gamble. I never got close to a horse. Fate dealt me a terrible blow when it gave me a good horse the first time out. I thought how easy this is. Now I love being around them.

  Jack Klugman

  Horse, Blow, Firsts

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• Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.

  R. D. Laing

  Destiny, Diversity, Violence

  R.D Laing (1967). “The Politics of Experience”

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• They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Mother, Genius, Great Mother

  D. H. Lawrence (2006). “Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious and Fantasia of the Unconscious”, p.159, Courier Corporation

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• Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Destiny, Literature, Dignity

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1877, Delphi Classics

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• All that is not perfect down to the smallest detail is doomed to perish.

  Gustav Mahler

  Perfect, Details, Smallest

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• Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Thinking, America, Car

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• I don't think anyone is qualified to answer questions of eternal fate definitively, much less pinpoint it to a given day.

  Jon Meacham

  Thinking, Answers, Given

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• Where do murderers go, man! Who's to doom, when the judge himself is dragged to the bar?

  Herman Melville

  Men, Judging, Bars

  Herman Melville (2016). “Moby Dick (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.370, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• The euro is our common fate, and Europe is our common future.

  Angela Merkel

  Europe, Common, Euro

  "Inflation isn't a worry - it's a sign of catastrophe averted" by William Keegan, www.theguardian.com. December 18, 2010.

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• Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed.

  Henry Miller

  Needs, Literature, Force

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.87, New Directions Publishing

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• My brother says that I was writing songs about fate while he was off playing soccer. Now I tell him he's 33 and being a professional while I'm playing soccer with my friends. Ha!

  Alanis Morissette

  Soccer, Song, Brother

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• We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.

  Iris Murdoch

  Time, Literature, Terrible

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• The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off.

  Benito Mussolini

  Birth Rate, Empires, Firsts

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• It isn't fate but fecklessness that has shoved Sarah Palin to the sidelines of national politics. The real tragedy is that she's taken a lot of other serious Republican women with her.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Real, Taken, Tragedy

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• In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Squares, India, England

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• I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.

  Novalis

  Character, Realizing, Feels

  Heinrich von Ofterdingen bk. 2 (1802). Often quoted as "character is destiny" or "character is fate." See George Eliot 6; Heraclitus 2

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