Fate Quotes - Page 5

• Oh God! that one might read the book of fate, And see the revolution of the times Make mountains level, and the continent, Weary of solid firmness, melt itself Into the sea.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Science, Sea

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 3, sc. 1, l. 45

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• We shun the rugged battle of fate where strength is born.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Battle, Born, Rugged

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.32, Courier Corporation

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• Generations will continue to meet the same fate unless the perennial oppressor-Britain-is removed, for she will unashamedly and mercilessly continue to maintain her occupation and economic exploitation of Ireland to judgment day, if she is not halted and ejected.

  Bobby Sands

  Generations, Occupation, Judgment

  Bobby Sands (1997). “Bobby Sands: Writings from Prison”, Roberts Rinehart Publishers

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• Commerce changes entirely the fate and genius of nations, by communicating arts and opinions, circulating money, and introducing the materials of luxury; she first opens and polishes the mind, then corrupts and enervates both that and the body.

  Thomas Gray

  Genius, Commerce, Nations

  "The Works of Thomas Gray: Containing His Poems and Correspondence, with Memoirs of His Life and Writings".

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• Sometimes our fate is different from the one we imagined for ourselves.

  Jean Kwok

  Different, Sometimes

  Jean Kwok (2010). “Girl in Translation”, p.180, Penguin

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• The compulsion of fate is bitter.

  Christoph Martin Wieland

  Bitterness, Bitter, Compulsion

  "Oberon". Book by Christoph Martin Wieland, Ch.V, p.60, 1780.

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• I have never seen such extreme partisanship, such bitter partisanship, and such forgetfulness of the fate of our fathers and of the Constitution.

  Robert Byrd

  Father, Bitterness, Constitution

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• A person may rightfully be happy if in this life he could do a great favor for widows and orphans, could assist support than, and facilitate fate of people.

  Islom Karimov

  Widows And Orphans, People, Support

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• Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.

  Confucius

  Life, Philosophical, Heaven

  Confucius (2014). “Confucian Analects”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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• Love is not in our choice but in our fate.

  John Dryden

  Love, Choices, Love Is

  John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.413, Delphi Classics

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• I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.

  Anatole France

  Literature, Poverty, Taught

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• Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Life, Women

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• Love cannot save you from your own fate.

  Jim Morrison

  Love, Pregnancy, Destiny

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• We have become makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.

  Karl Popper

  Prophet, Makers, Fate And Destiny

  The Open Society and its Enemies (1945) Introduction

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• Let us then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate, Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Time, Learning, Heart

  "A Psalm of Life" st. 9 (1838)

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• There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Inspirational, Philosophy, Names

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• The wheel of fortune turns round incessantly, and who can say to himself, I shall today be uppermost.

  Confucius

  Today, Wheels, Fortune

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• Chance generally favors the prudent.

  Joseph Joubert

  Inspirational, Favors, Prudent

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• We cannot bear to regard ourselves simply as playthings of blind chance, we cannot admit to feeling ourselves abandoned.

  Ugo Betti

  Art, Philosophy, History

  Ugo Betti (1964). “Three plays on justice: Landslide. Struggle till dawn. The fugitive”

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• I do not know beneath what sky nor on what seas shall be thy fate; I only know it shall be high, I only know it shall be great.

  Richard Hovey

  Destiny, Sea, Sky

  Richard Hovey (1908). “Along the Trail”

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• If you believe in fate, believe in it, at least, for your good.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Believe, Destiny, Belief

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• Go with your fate, but not beyond. Beyond leads to dark places.

  Mary Renault

  Dark, Dark Places

  "The Bull from the Sea". Book by Mary Renault, 1962.

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• The heart is its own Fate.

  Philip James Bailey

  Heart

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.39

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• They are raised on high that they may be dashed to pieces with a greater fall.

  Claudius Claudianus

  Fall, May, Pieces

  "In Rufinum". Book I. 22,

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• History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

  Thomas Huxley

  Truth, Humility, Superstitions

  "The Coming of Age of 'The Origin of Species' " (1880)

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