Fate Quotes - Page 12

• Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.

  Daniel Handler

  I Hate You, Humor, Littles

  "The Slippery Slope". Book by Daniel Handler, 2003.

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• In a sad twist of fate, the bill to reauthorize the Patriot Act was debated on the floor of the House of Representatives the same day that terrorists struck again.

  Jim Sensenbrenner

  House, Usa Patriot Act, Twists

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• The fate of a child is in the hands of his parents.

  Shinichi Suzuki

  Children, Hands, Parent

  Dr. Shinichi Suzuki (1998). “Shinichi Suzuki: His Speeches and Essays”, p.51, Alfred Music

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• Whatever else may divide us, Europe is our common home; a common fate has linked us through the centuries, and it continues to link us today.

  Leonid Brezhnev

  Home, Europe, Links

  1981 Speech while visiting the Federal Republic of Germany, 23 Nov.

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• No man can be stronger than his destiny.

  Mary Hunter Austin

  Destiny, Men, Stronger

  Mary Hunter Austin, Marjorie Pryse (1987). “Stories from the Country of Lost Borders”, p.24, Rutgers University Press

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• Let the moment come when nothing is left but life, and you will find that you do not hesitate over the fate of material possessions.

  Eddie Rickenbacker

  Moments, Possession, Materials

  Jessie Alford Nunn, Robert J. Donovan, Eddie Rickenbacker, Leland Stowe, James Albert Michener (1966). “Four complete true adventures”

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• The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.

  Bertrand Russell

  Death, Time, Slavery

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “Mysticism and Logic”, p.85, Bertrand Russell

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• Sometimes life has a cruel sense of humor, giving you the thing you always wanted at the worst time possible.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Heartbreak, Giving, Worst Times

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.549, St. Martin's Press

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• But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?

  Alexander Pope

  Destiny, Blind, States

  Alexander Pope (1835). “The works of Alexander Pope; with a memoir of the author, notes [&c.] by G. Croly”, p.126

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• Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life, and you know not whether for good or ill.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Steps, Dramatic, Moments

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “Sherlock Holmes. The best stories”, p.711, "Издательство ""Проспект"""

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• Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

  Omar Khayyam

  Life, Wise, Wisdom

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• Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations.

  Salman Rushdie

  Nature, Firsts, Exile

  Salman Rushdie (1989). “The Satanic Verses”, New York, N.Y. : Viking

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• It is usually more important how a man meets his fate than what it is.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Men, Important

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• Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate.

  Alexander Pope

  Book, Heaven, Creatures

  Alexander Pope (1820). “An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to H. St. John Lord Bolinbroke. To which are Added the Universal Prayer, Messiah, and Elegy”, p.7

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• If you do not create your destiny,
  you will have your fate inflicted upon you.

  William Irwin Thompson

  Moving On, Moving Forward, Destiny

  William Irwin Thompson (2001). “Transforming History: A Curriculum for Cultural Evolution”, Lindisfarne Press

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• Monuments, like men, submit to fate.

  Alexander Pope

  Men, Submit, Monument

  Alexander Pope (1849). “Letters of Alexander Pope Works and Arranged Expresly for the Use Young People”, p.70

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• We cannot conquer fate and necessity, yet we can yield to them in such a manner as to be greater than if we could.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Acceptance, Yield, Conquer

  Walter Savage Landor (1856). “Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor”, p.170

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• The individuals who seem to us most outstanding, who are honored with the name of genius, are those who have proposed to enact the fate of all humanity in their personal existences.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Names, Humanity, Genius

  Simone de Beauvoir (1953). “The second sex”, Vintage

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• If today there is a proper American "sphere of influence" it is this fragile sphere called earth upon which all men live and share a common fate--a sphere where our influence must be for peace and justice.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Men, Justice, Today

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• How wisely fate ordain'd for human kind Calamity! which is the perfect glass, Wherein we truly see and know ourselves.

  Bill Vaughan

  Glasses, Perfect, Kind

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• Things are where things are, and, as fate has willed,
  So shall they be fulfilled.

  Robert Browning

  Fulfilled

  Robert Browning (2015). “Complete Plays of Robert Browning”, p.749, e-artnow sro

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• The perverseness of my fate is such that he's not mine because he's mine too much.

  John Dryden

  Too Much, Mines, Perverseness

  John Dryden, Paul Hammond, David Hopkins (2007). “Dryden: Selected Poems”, p.746, Pearson Education

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• Fate shall yield
  To fickle Chance, and Chaos judge the strife.

  John Milton

  Yield, Judging, Fickle

  John Milton (1866). “Milton's Paradise Lost”, p.34

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• Thou two-faced year, Mother of Change and Fate...

  Emma Lazarus

  Mother, Years, Two

  Emma Lazarus (2014). “The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume II: Jewish Poems and Translations”, p.22, Courier Corporation

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• I've always thought that the most perfect fate which could befall any woman would be to be born a rich widow.

  Faith Baldwin

  Women, Perfect, Would Be

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