Fate Quotes - Page 13

• Now the pessimist proper is the most modest of men. ... under no circumstances does he presume to imagine that he, a mere unit of pain, can in any degree change or soften the remorseless words of fate.

  Agnes Repplier

  Pain, Men, Degrees

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• No peace was ever won from fate by subterfuge or argument; no peace is ever in store for any of us, but that which we shall win by victory over shame or sin--victory over the sin that oppresses, as well as over that which corrupts.

  John Ruskin

  Peace, Winning, Victory

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• The source of each accordant strain
  Lies deeper than the Poet's brain.
  First from the people's heart must spring
  The passions which he learns to sing;
  They are the wind, the harp is he,
  To voice their fitful melody,--
  The language of their varying fate,
  Their pride, grief, love, ambition, hate,--
  The talisman which holds inwrought
  The touchstone of the listener's thought;
  That penetrates each vain disguise,
  And brings his secret to his eyes.

  Bayard Taylor

  Lying, Hate, Spring

  Bayard Taylor (1866). “The Poems”, p.111

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• Fate carries its own clock.

  Pearl Bailey

  Timing, Clock, Carrie

  Pearl Bailey (1969). “The raw Pearl”, Pocket

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I think some orator commenting upon that fate said that though the winds of heaven might whistle around an Englishman's cottage, the King of England could not.

  John James Ingalls

  Kings, Home, Thinking

  Speach in the U.S. Senate, May 10, 1880.

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• Education which is not modern share the fate of all organic things which are kept too long.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Education, Long, Modern

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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• Jove lifts the golden balances that show
  The fates of mortal men, and things below.

  Homer

  Men, Balance, Golden

  Homer (1773). “The Iliad”, p.423, Hayes Barton Press

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• For the marriage bed ordained by fate for men and women is stronger than an oath and guarded by Justice.

  Aeschylus

  Marriage, Men, Justice

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• If people like to read their books, it is all very well, but to be at so much trouble in filling great volumes, which, as I used to think, nobody would willingly ever look into, to be labouring only for the torment of little boys and girls, always struck me as a hard fate.

  Jane Austen

  Girl, Education, Book

  Jane Austen (2009). “Jane Austen: The Works in Eight Volumes”, Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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• Wit is artificial; humor is natural. Wit is accidental; humor is inevitable. Wit is born of conscious effort; humor, of the allotted ironies of fate. Wit can be expressed only in language; humor can be developed sufficiently in situation.

  Agnes Repplier

  Humor, Effort, Irony

  Agnes Repplier (1893). “Essays in Idleness”, Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin

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• Despair makes a despicable figure, and descends from a mean original. 'Tis the offspring of fear, of laziness and impatience; it argues a defect of spirit and resolution, and oftentimes of honesty, too. I would not despair unless I saw misfortune recorded in the book of fate, and signed and sealed by necessity.

  Jeremy Collier

  Honesty, Book, Mean

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• I would not despair unless I knew the irrevocable decree was passed; saw my misfortune recorded in the book of fate, and signed and sealed by neces-sity.

  Jeremy Collier

  Book, Despair, Saws

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• All working, practical political systems, even those professing to originate in moral grandeur, are based upon and operate by contempt of human life and the individual fate.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Political, Politics, Moral

  Katherine Anne Porter, Darlene Harbour Unrue (2008). “Collected stories and other writings”

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• Letters crossing in the post, unfamiliar tunes heard three times in one day, the way that blows of fate descend upon the same bowed shoulders, and the beams of good fortune glow perpetually upon the blessed. Fairy tales, as I said, are lived out daily. There is far more going on in the world than we ever imagine.

  Fay Weldon

  Life, Blessed, Blow

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• The present is all the ready money Fate can give.

  Abraham Cowley

  Giving, Ready

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• The nation becomes the master of its fate not only when it has many good sons, but also when it possesses enough strength to restrain its bad ones.

  Roman Dmowski

  Son, Enough, Masters

  "Podstawy polityki polskiej", Przegląd Wszechpolski, 343, 349, 358-359, July 1905.

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• It is my melancholy fate to like so many people I profoundly disagree with and often heartily dislike people who agree with me.

  Mary Kingsley

  People, Opinion, Melancholy

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• Destiny is thrifty. To weave her tapestry, she uses even the tiniest snips of thread.

  Zelda Popkin

  Destiny, Use, Thrifty

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