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Fate Quotes (page 30)

Jodi Picoult quote: "Does fate ever play by the rules?"
Does fate ever play by the rules? Jodi Picoult
Someone's got to do these things,' he said sullenly. 'Or else fate would not ever get nose-thumbed and mankind would still be clinging to the top branches of a tree. John Steinbeck
There are things in this universe that we cannot control, and then there are the things we can. . . . Let fate, coincidence, and accident conspire; human beings must act on reason. David Guterson
I don't trust society to protect us, I have no intention of placing my fate in the hands of men whose only qualification is that they managed to con a block of people to vote for them. Mario Puzo
William Shakespeare quote: "This day's black fate on more days doth depend; This but..."
This day's black fate on more days doth depend; This but begins the woe, others must end. William Shakespeare
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow quote: "Let us, then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still..."
Let us, then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour and to wait. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
We are going to punish somebody for this attack, but just who or where will be blown to smithereens for it is hard to say. Maybe Afghanistan, maybe Pakistan or Iraq, or possibly all three at once. Who knows? Not even the Generals in what remains of the Pentagon or the New York papers calling for war seem to know who did it or where to look for them. This is going to be a very expensive war, and Victory is not guaranteed--for anyone, and certainly not for a baffled little creep like George W.... Hunter S. Thompson
Up to a point a person’s life is shaped by environment, heredity, and changes in the world about them. Then there comes a time when it lies within their grasp to shape the clay of their life into the sort of thing they wish it to be. Only the weak blame parents, their race, their times, lack of good fortune or the quirks of fate. Everyone has the power to say, "This I am today. That I shall be tomorrow. Louis L'Amour
John Lancaster Spalding quote: "If there were nothing else to trouble us, the fate of the..."
If there were nothing else to trouble us, the fate of the flowers would make us sad. John Lancaster Spalding
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
We are all brothers and we are all suffering the same fate. The same smoke floats over all our heads. Help one another. It is the only wait to survive. Elie Wiesel
Everyone believes the world's greatest lie..." says the mysterious old man."What is the world's greatest lie?" the little boy asks. The old man replies, "It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That's the world's greatest lie. Paulo Coelho
Art goes into the world unarmed, vulnerable to every quirk of fate, and it must survive only by its power to move men not to destroy it. Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
The ways of fate are indeed hard to understand. If there is not some compensation hereafter, then the world is a cruel jest. Arthur Conan Doyle
From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other - above all for those upon whose smile and well-being our own happiness depends, and also for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day I realize how much my own outer and inner life is built upon the labors of my fellow men, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as... Albert Einstein

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