Fate Quotes - Page 38

• In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us is an epoch of stupendous happenings.

  Edmund Husserl

  Spiritual, Soul, Humanity

  Edmund Husserl, Peter McCormick, Frederick Elliston (1981). “Husserl, shorter works”, Univ of Notre Dame Pr

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• Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Feminism, Human Nature, Anti Feminist

  Phyllis Schlafly (2003). “Feminist fantasies”, Spence Pub

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• Granting our wish is one of Fate's saddest jokes.

  James Russell Lowell

  Success, Wish, Saddest

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.426

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• So he held her and he prayed. Shafts of moonlight on his face. But the baby in her womb, He was the maker of the moon. He was the author of the fate that could make the mountains move.

  Andrew Peterson

  Christmas, Meaningful, Baby

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• When you think to take determination of your fate into your own hands, that is the moment you can be crushed. Be cautious.

  Frank Herbert

  Determination, Thinking, Hands

  Frank Herbert (1986). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, Berkley Trade

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• Do you see that kitten chasing so prettily her own tail? If you could look with her eyes, you might see her surrounded with hundreds of figures performing complex dramas, with tragic and comic issues, long conversations, many characters, many ups and downs of fate.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Drama, Character, Cat

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.489, Library of America

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• I have been trying to point out that in our lives chance may have an astonishing influence and, if I may offer advice to the young laboratory worker, it would be this-never neglect an extraordinary appearance or happening. It may be-usually is, in fact-a false alarm that leads to nothing, but may on the other hand be the clue provided by fate to lead you to some important advance.

  Alexander Fleming

  Science, Discovery, Hands

  "Molecular cloning: a laboratory manual". Book by Joseph Sambrook, Vol. 1, 153, 2001.

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• I'm not a big believer in a thing called luck. I believe it has a lot to do with fate and just really having a vision of the way you would see your life.

  Marla Maples

  Believe, Vision, Luck

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If there is anything that can bind the heavenly mind of man to this dreary exile of our earthly home and can reconcile us with our fate so that one can enjoy living,-then it is verily the enjoyment of the mathematical sciences and astronomy.

  Johannes Kepler

  Home, Men, Mind

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• During my span of life science has become a matter of public concern and the l'art pour l'art standpoint of my youth is now obsolete. Science has become an integral and most important part of our civilization, and scientific work means contributing to its development. Science in our technical age has social, economic, and political functions, and however remote one's own work is from technical application it is a link in the chain of actions and decisions which determine the fate of the human race. I realized this aspect of science in its full impact only after Hiroshima.

  Max Born

  Art, Mean, Science

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• It strikes me as unfair, and even in bad taste, to select a few of them for boundless admiration, attributing superhuman powers of mind and character to them. This has been my fate, and the contrast between the popular estimate of my powers and achievements and the reality is simply grotesque.

  Albert Einstein

  Character, Science, Reality

  Albert Einstein (2011). “The World As I See It”, p.35, Open Road Media

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• Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Book, People, Slavery

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”, p.40

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• Objectives are not fate; they are direction. They are not commands; they are commitments. They do not determine the future; they are a means to mobilize resources and energies of the business for the making of the future.

  Peter Drucker

  Communication, Mean, Commitment

  Peter Drucker (2013). “People and Performance”, p.121, Routledge

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• Tears throw a veil over our faults and allow us to accuse fate without fear or contradiction.

  Italo Svevo

  Fear, Tears, Atheism

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• If to die honorably is the greatest Part of virtue, for us fate's done her best. Because we fought to crown Greece with freedom We lie here enjoying timeless fame.

  Simonides of Ceos

  Lying, Crowns, Done

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• Life is a compromise between fate and free will.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Compromise, Life Is, Free Will

  Elbert Hubbard (1911). “A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard”

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• Astrologers that future fates foreshow.

  Alexander Pope

  Astrology

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1831). “Poetical Works”, p.250

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• Responsibility, n. A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one's neighbor. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Stars, Responsibility, Astrology

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.106, Courier Corporation

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• I have always tempered my killing with respect for the game pursued. I see the animal not only as a target, but as a living creature with more freedom than I will ever have. I take that life if I can, with regret as well as joy, and with the sure knowledge that nature's way of fang and claw and starvation are a far crueler fate than I bestow.

  Fred Bear

  Regret, Animal, Hunting

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• It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art.

  Margaret Oliphant

  Art, Long, Quality

  Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant, Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) (1892). “The Heir Presumptive and the Heir Apparent”

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• Woman submits to her fate; man makes his

  Emile Gaboriau

  Maturity, Destiny, Men

  Emile Gaboriau (2017). “Other People's Money”, p.135, Jovian Press

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• We all have a destiny in accordance with the breadth of our shoulders. My shoulders are broad.

  Placido Domingo

  Destiny, Broads, Shoulders

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• It's our destiny to explore. It's our destiny to be a space-faring nation.

  Gene Cernan

  Destiny, Space, Nations

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• The Fates are here because of supernal anger, celestial imbalance, and arrogance of men and gods that must be curbed.

  Janet Morris

  God, Destiny, Men

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.179, Paradise Publishing

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• Men make their own fates - it's personal, not a matter for debate.

  Janet Morris

  Destiny, Men, Ontology

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