Fate Quotes

The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition.

I don't believe in fate or destiny. I believe in various degrees of hatred, paranoia, and abandonment. However much of that gets heaped upon you doesn't matter - it's only a matter of how much you can take and what it does to you.

Fate is written in the face.

This crowd did not diminish through the whole of that cold, wet day; they seemed not to know what was to by their fate since their great benefactor was dead, and though strong and brave men wept when I met them.

Nature, I have constantly argued in my work, is the real superpower of this godless universe. It is the ultimate disposer of human fate, randomly recarving geography over 10,000-year epochs.

Suffer not thy wrongs to shroud thy fate, But turn, my soul, to blessings which remain.

Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.

That's Anil's path. She grows up in Sri Lanka, goes and gets educated abroad, and through fate or chance gets brought back by the Human Rights Commission to investigate war crimes.

I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.

If you do not create your destiny, you will have your fate inflicted upon you.

To bear is to conquer our fate.

When I need a word and do not find it in French, I select it from other tongues, and the reader has either to understand or translate me. Such is my fate.

Go with your fate, but not beyond. Beyond leads to dark places.

It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll; I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.

Responsibility without power, the fate of the secretary through the ages.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learned to separate them.

All the nations they had to deal with, had the same fate.

Muslim delegates concerned about rights in Palestine could have brought their enthusiasm closer to home by addressing the fate of black Christians being slaughtered and enslaved in the Sudan.

The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!

France cannot be destroyed. She is an old country who, despite her misfortunes, has, and always will have, thanks to her past, a tremendous prestige in the world, whatever the fate inflicted upon her.

If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way.

In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us is an epoch of stupendous happenings.

In the first instance, therefore, global terrorism created a kind of global community sharing a common fate, something we had previously considered impossible.

To die for one's country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death.

The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the disenchantment of the world.

If there's any business that instructs you in the strong hand of fate, it's show business. You can plan and plan, but it's what happens to you that really determines what your career will be like.

Character and fate are two words for the same thing.

I have never seen such extreme partisanship, such bitter partisanship, and such forgetfulness of the fate of our fathers and of the Constitution.

My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact.