Fate Quotes - Page 2

• I believe in luck and fate and I believe in karma, that the energy you put out in the world comes back to meet you.

  Chris Pine

  Karma, Believe, Luck

  "Just My Luck - Chris Pine interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate.

  Donald Trump

  Success, Courage, Motivation

  Twitter post from Sep 20, 2014

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• Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out til too late that he's been playing with two queens all along.

  Terry Pratchett

  Queens, Play, Two

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We are all subject to the fates. But we must act as if we are not, or die of despair.

  Philip Pullman

  Destiny, Despair, Subjects

  Nicholas Wright, Philip Pullman (2005). “His Dark Materials”, p.93, Heinemann

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• People without firmness of character love to make up a fate for themselves; that relieves them of the necessity of having their own will and of taking responsibility for themselves.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Character, Responsibility, People

  Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1994). “Essential Turgenev”, p.184, Northwestern University Press

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• Sometimes fate brings two people together by causing one to misinterpret a smile.

  Robert Breault

  Two, People, Together

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• Fate is the friend of the good, the guide of the wise, the tyrant of the foolish, the enemy of the bad.

  William Rounseville Alger

  Wise, Destiny, Tyrants

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• The hand of fate had dipped into the ragbag of humanity.

  Jean Shepherd

  Hands, Humanity

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• And if you cannot remain indifferent, you must resolve to throw your weight into that balance in which the fate and condition of man is weighed.

  Lajos Kossuth

  Men, Balance, Weight

  Lajos Kossuth (1853). “Select speeches, condensed and abridged by F.W. Newman”, p.34

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• Even in political considerations, now-a-days, you have stronger motives to feel interested in the fate of Europe than in the fate of the Central or Southern parts of America.

  Lajos Kossuth

  Europe, America, Southern

  Lajos Kossuth, Francis William Newman (1854). “Select Speeches of Kossuth”, p.56

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• My whole life has been decided by fate.

  Sharon Tate

  Whole Life, Has Beens, Decided

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A left turn in the fate of Russia is as necessary as it is inevitable.

  Mikhail Khodorkovsky

  Russia, Inevitable, Turns

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• In the beds which the piety of the public has prepared on every side, stricken men await the verdict of fate.

  Georges Duhamel

  Men, Bed, Sides

  Georges Duhamel (1918). “The New Book of Martyrs: From the French of Georges Duhamel”

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• If we look on heaven and earth as a single crucible, and on the creator as the founder, would there be any place I could not go? When it is time, I will fall asleep, and when the right time comes, I will wake up again.

  Zhuangzi

  Fall, Heaven, Crucible

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

  Sophocles

  Happiness, Giving, Laughing

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles II: Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, The Trackers”, p.33, University of Chicago Press

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• These clashes are the only evolu-tionary possibility which will enable us one day, now that Fate has given us the Fuehrer Adolf Hitler, to create the Germanic Reich.

  Heinrich Himmler

  One Day, Possibility, Given

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• France cannot be destroyed. She is an old country who, despite her misfortunes, has, and always will have, thanks to her past, a tremendous prestige in the world, whatever the fate inflicted upon her.

  Pierre Laval

  Country, Past, World

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• Stern fate and time Will have their victims; and the best die first, Leaving the bad still strong, though past their prime, To curse the hopeless world they ever curs'd Vaunting vile deeds, and vainest of the worst.

  Ebenezer Elliott

  Strong, Past, Leaving

  Ebenezer Elliott, Mark Storey (2008). “Selected Poetry of Ebenezer Elliott”, p.61, Associated University Presse

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• Statesman only talk of fate when they have blundered

  Benito Mussolini

  Destiny, Statesmen

  Christopher Hibbert, Benito Mussolini (1962). “Benito Mussolini: a biography”

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• Superiority to Fate Is difficult to gain 'Tis not conferred of Any But possible to earn.

  Emily Dickinson

  Luck, Gains, Difficult

  Emily Dickinson, Cristanne Miller (2016). “Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them”, p.470, Harvard University Press

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• Our life is determined for us--and it makes the mind very free when we give up wishing, and only think of bearing what is laid upon us, and doing what is given us to do.

  George Eliot

  Giving Up, Thinking, Mind

  1860 The Mill on the Floss, bk.5, ch.1.

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• Necessity and chance Approach not me, and what I will is fate.

  John Milton

  Chance, Approach

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 7, l. 172

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• Fate's sentence written on the brow no hand can e'er efface.

  Bhartrhari

  Hands, Brows, Sentences

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

  Marcus Aurelius

  Law, Purpose, Accidents

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• If it’s meant for me, it will be.' Those words are my mantra in life, and it has never let me down.

  Jennifer Hudson

  Let Me, Mantras, Ifs

  Jennifer Hudson (2012). “I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down”, p.47, Penguin

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