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Fated Quotes (page 24)

Consider the fact that for 3.8 billion years, a period of time older than the Earth’s mountains and rivers and oceans, every one of your forebears on both sides has been attractive enough to find a mate, healthy enough to reproduce, and sufficiently blessed by fate and circumstances to live long enough to do so. Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stuck fast, untimely wounded or otherwise deflected from its life’s quest of delivering a tiny charge of... Bill Bryson
Man is neither entirely a puppet of the gods, nor is he entirely the captain of his own destiny. We gallop through our lives like circus performers balancing on two speeding side-by-side horses - one foot is on the horse called "fate," the other on the horse called "free will. Elizabeth Gilbert
Charles Baudelaire quote: "and over your unconsecrated head you'll hear the howling..."
and over your unconsecrated head you'll hear the howling wolveslament their fate and yours the livelong year; Charles Baudelaire
I'm trying to have a moment o' existential dreed here, right? Crivens, it's a puir lookout if a man canna feel the chilly winds o' fate lashing aroound his netheres wi'out folks telling him he's deid, eh? Terry Prachett
Winston Churchill quote: "We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our..."
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls. Winston Churchill
The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstitiion will drag him down. The rain will erode the deeds of his life. But that man who sets himself the task of singling out the thread of order from the tapestry will by the decision alone have taken charge of the world and it is only by such taking charge that he will effect a way to dictate the terms of his own fate. I dont see what that has to do with catchin birds. The freedom of birds... Cormac McCarthy
Sylvia Plath quote: "Character is fate."
Character is fate. Sylvia Plath
Gabriel Garcia Marquez quote: "It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded..."
It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the laughter that all can see and through the tears unseen and unknown by anyone. Nikolai Gogol
As you grow older, it becomes harder to feel 100 percent happy; you learn all the things that can go wrong, you become superstitious about tempting fate, about bringing disaster upon your life by accidentally feeling too good one day. Doug Coupland
Terry Prachett quote: "TO CHANGE THE FATE OF ONE INDIVIDUAL IS TO CHANGE THE WORLD."
TO CHANGE THE FATE OF ONE INDIVIDUAL IS TO CHANGE THE WORLD. Terry Prachett
If just once you were depressed for no reason, you have been so all your life without knowing it. Becoming: an agony without an ending. The older I grow, the less I enjoy performing my little Hamlet. The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death. If History had a goal, how lamentable would be the fate of those of us who have accomplished nothing! On the frontiers of the self: ‘What I have suffered, what I am suffering, no one will ever know, not... Emile M. Cioran
...sometimes I do actually forget that the person to whom I owe that love is a real person, complete in himself, not someone who should make do with some rather diffuse emotion which gradually resigns itself to its own fatal vagueness, as if that were a fate against which there were no possible appeal... Jose Saramago
Margaret Atwood quote: "Neither of us says the word love, not once. It would be..."
Neither of us says the word love, not once. It would be tempting fate; it would be romance, bad luck. Margaret Atwood
Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. what a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate. Henry David Thoreau

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