Fate Quotes - Page 39

• 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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• The top 1 percent have the best houses, the best educations, the best doctors, and the best lifestyles, but there is one thing that money doesn't seem to have bought: an understanding that their fate is bound up with how the other 99 percent live. Throughout history, this is something that the top 1 percent eventually do learn. Too late.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Doctors, House, Understanding

  Joseph Stiglitz (2015). “The Great Divide”, p.110, Penguin UK

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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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• A wise one determines his own fate.

  Janet Morris

  Wise, Destiny, Perspective

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• Fate, then, is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought; for causes which are unpenetrated.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Destiny, Fire, Names

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.87, Penguin

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• What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.

  Samuel Beckett

  Destiny, Men, Atheism

  Samuel Beckett (1995). “The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989”, p.192, Grove Press

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• Sometimes, perhaps, we are allowed to get lost that we may find the right person to ask directions of.

  Robert Breault

  Destiny, May, Sometimes

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• Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and without greatness. Those who have greatness within them do not go in for politics.

  Albert Camus

  Greatness, Destiny, Men

  Carnets, 1935-42 (Notebooks, 1962) p. 99

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• Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, roll darkly down the torrent of his fate.

  Samuel Johnson

  Ignorance, Destiny, Men

  Samuel Johnson, “The Vanity Of Human Wishes”

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• The book of nature is the book of fate. She turns the gigantic pages, leaf after leaf never returning one.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Destiny, Pages

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1860). “The Conduct of Life”, p.13

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• If we must accept fate we are not less compelled to affirm liberty, the significance of the individual, the grandeur of duty, the power of character.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Destiny, Liberty

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.254, Penguin

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• I face my demons and embrace my fate.

  Lynda Bellingham

  Destiny, Faces, Demon

  Lynda Bellingham (2014). “Lost and Found: My Story”, p.317, Random House

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• Our wills and fates do so contrary run, That our devices still are overthrown; Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own.

  William Shakespeare

  Running, Destiny, Ends

  1600-1 Player King. Hamlet, act 3, sc.2, l.202-3.

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• It's the great soul that surrenders itself to fate, but a puny degenerate thing that struggles.

  Seneca the Younger

  Struggle, Destiny, Soul

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• The end of a man's life is often compared to the winding up of a well written play, where the principal persons still act in character, whatever the fate in which they undergo.

  Joseph Addison

  Character, Destiny, Men

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, Francis Prévost, Francis William Blagdon (1833). “The Spectator, in Miniature: Being the Principal Religious, Moral, Humourous, Satirical and Critical Essays, in that Publication Compressed Into Two Volumes”, p.212

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• We stand against fate, as children stand up against the wall in their father's house, and notch their height from year to year. But when the boy grows to a man, and is master of the house, he pulls down that wall and builds it new and bigger.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Wall, Father

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.265, Penguin

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