Fate Quotes - Page 18

• Borders had lousy management and made bad corporate decisions, so its fate is less like a terrible accident than a slow-motion slide into a ditch, but it's hard to be happy about a bookseller's demise.

  Susan Orlean

  Decision, Borders, Demise

  "Bookmarked" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. February 17, 2011.

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• American policy seems to be wed to a perpetual state of war. Why? History shows that the world will always be in flux or turmoil, with different peoples competing for visibility and power. The U.S. cannot fix the fate of every nation.

  Camille Paglia

  War, Different, World

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• Nature, I have constantly argued in my work, is the real superpower of this godless universe. It is the ultimate disposer of human fate, randomly recarving geography over 10,000-year epochs.

  Camille Paglia

  Real, Years, Geography

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• Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon...

  Terry Pratchett

  Prayer, Evil, Fasting

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

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• I'm eternally grateful to fate and the citizens of Russia that they've trusted me to be the head of the Russian government.

  Vladimir Putin

  Grateful, Russia, Government

  "Vladimir Putin outdoes himself with 'record-making' televised Q&A" by Miriam Elder, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2013.

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• No one wants the United Nations to suffer the fate of the League of Nations, which collapsed because it lacked real leverage. This is possible if influential countries bypass the United Nations and take military action without Security Council authorization.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Military, Real

  "A Plea for Caution From Russia". www.nytimes.com. September 11, 2013.

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• I don't believe in fate or destiny. I believe in various degrees of hatred, paranoia, and abandonment. However much of that gets heaped upon you doesn't matter - it's only a matter of how much you can take and what it does to you.

  Henry Rollins

  Hate, Believe, Destiny

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• I'm just steadily building myself up as Kelly Rowland, not just Kelly Rowland of Destiny's Child, which is a blessing to be able to do that.

  Kelly Rowland

  Children, Blessing, Destiny

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• All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Principles, Action, Existentialism

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “Essays in Aesthetics”, p.13, Open Road Media

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• Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Destiny, Hands, Literature

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• An evil fate has deprived me of the full use of my right hand, so that I am not able to play my compositions as I feel them. The trouble with my hand is that certain fingers have become so weak, probably through writing and playing too much at one time, that I can hardly use them.

  Robert Schumann

  Writing, Hands, Play

  Robert Schumann (1907). “The Letters of Robert Schumann”

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• Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.

  Chief Seattle

  Inspiring, Courage, Nature

  Chief Seattle, “This we know”

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• To our Palestinian neighbours, I assure you that we have a genuine intention to respect your right to live independently and in dignity. I have already said that Israel has no desire to continue to govern over you and control your fate.

  Ariel Sharon

  Israel, Over You, Desire

  "The leaders' statements". www.theguardian.com. February 8, 2005.

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• Fate gives you the finger and you accept.

  William Shatner

  Giving, Accepting, Fingers

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• My intention is to ask the courts and people of Hong Kong to decide my fate.

  Edward Snowden

  People, Hong Kong, Intention

  "EXCLUSIVE: Whistle-blower Edward Snowden talks to South China Morning Post". China Morning Post Interveiw, www.scmp.com. June 12, 2013.

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• Casting sometimes is fate and destiny more than skill and talent, from a director's point of view.

  Steven Spielberg

  Destiny, Views, Skills

  "Steven Spielberg and Quint have an epic chat all about JAWS as it approaches its 36th Anniversary!". Interview with Quint, www.aintitcool.com. June 6, 2011.

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• In our country today, very few children are raised to believe that their principal destiny is to serve their family, their country, or God.

  Benjamin Spock

  Country, Children, Believe

  Benjamin Spock (1992). “Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care”

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• That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn't entirely conquer - he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Differences, Generations, Literature

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.589, Simon and Schuster

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• I know I'm going to blow one day. My life is doomed the way it is. I have no future.

  Mike Tyson

  Sports, Blow, Boxing

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• As a nation we have the right to decide our own affairs, to mould our own future. This does not pose any danger to anybody. Our nation is fully aware of the responsibility for its own fate in the complicated situation of the contemporary world.

  Lech Walesa

  Responsibility, Doe, World

  Lech Walesa's Nobel lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1983.

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• There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny.

  Edith Wharton

  Destiny, Men, Long

  Edith Wharton (2012). “The Age of Innocence”, p.228, Courier Corporation

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• It is nobody's right to be waited on and nobody's fate to do the waiting.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Waiting

  "Why We Don’t Celebrate Mother’s Day in our Home" by Margaret Heffernan, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 8, 2012.

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• Now at this very moment I knew that the United States was in the war, up to the neck and in to the death. So we had won after all! ... How long the war would last or in what fashion it would end no man could tell, nor did I at this moment care ... We should not be wiped out. Our history would not come to an end ... Hitler's fate was sealed. Mussolini's fate was sealed. As for the Japanese, they would be ground to a powder. All the rest was merely the proper application of overwhelming force.

  Winston Churchill

  Fashion, War, Men

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• And often he who has chosen the fate of the artist because he felt himself to be different soon realizes that he can maintain neither his art nor his difference unless he admits that he is like the others. The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from.

  Albert Camus

  Art, Differences, Community

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• Being a detective isn't all about torture and murder and monsters. Sometimes it gets truly unpleasant...The fate of the world may depend on whether or not you can bring yourself to visit your relatives.

  Derek Landy

  Monsters, World, May

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