Fate Quotes

I'm a great believer in fate. I think things happen in spite of, and despite, yourself.

Randolph Scott

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It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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A nation is a totality of men united through community of fate into a community of character.

Otto Bauer

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Have any of our friends got off the Island with their families, or what must they submit to? Despotism or destruction, I fear, is their fate.

William Floyd

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There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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I have complete artistic control, and I just do my best album every time and trust it to fate.

Susannah McCorkle

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Even in political considerations, now-a-days, you have stronger motives to feel interested in the fate of Europe than in the fate of the Central or Southern parts of America.

Lajos Kossuth

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My whole life has been decided by fate.

Sharon Tate

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When you have a chain around your neck, you have to keep your head down and try to accept your fate without succumbing entirely to humiliation, without forgetting who you are.

Ingrid Betancourt

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Storytelling is the only studio movie where the censorship is perfectly clear, the only studio movie with a big red box covering up a shot. I take pride in that - and, of course, in having avoided the fate of Eyes Wide Shut.

Todd Solondz

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In July, 1892, fate suddenly granted me financial independence.

Carl Spitteler

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When you watch one person on stage trying to surmount their fate only in that very action to embody it, it's called a tragedy. When you see a lot of people doing it on stage, it's called 'Fawlty Towers.'

Timothy Morton

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'The Sound of Things Falling' may be a page turner, but it's also a deep meditation on fate and death. Even in translation, the superb quality of Vasquez's prose is evident, captured in Anne McLean's idiomatic English version. All the novel's characters are well imagined, original and rounded.

Edmund White

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When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.

Norm Crosby

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I just absolutely needed the theatre so desperately - it was my fate; it was where I was running towards. It was the place where I found peace and survival and all kinds of things.

Mark Rylance

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But for a few twists of fate, the gasoline engine we know today might have just been a small footnote in history.

Kimbal Musk

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The allegiance of the citizen, in the only sense in which the word can be tolerated in a republic, is due to the law. What idea other men may have of a law higher than the supreme law, I know not. Like the notion of the Stoics concerning Fate, it is perfectly incomprehensible.

James L. Petigru

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In my view, the humanity of our world can be measured against the fate of Africa.

Horst Koehler

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Love cannot save you from your own fate.

Jim Morrison

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I just took it one step at a time and let fate determine my destiny.

Henry Samueli

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I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your ruin, and to the ruin of our children. I give you this warning that you may prepare your mind for your fate.

John Adams

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I figured I was going to apply to one journalism school and let fate take a hand.

Erik Larson

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Love is not in our choice but in our fate.

John Dryden

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Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

Elizabeth Bowen

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