Top 404 Fate Quotes

I think dead humans rising from their graves with little to no sense of who they were in their past lives to mindlessly roam the earth consigning others to the same fate would be a bit depressing.

One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.

They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.

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

In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet.

Your genes are not your fate… if you change your lifestyle, you change your genes.

Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent’s fate.

Through the harsh design of fate, Florida was dealt the unfortunate circumstances of bearing the brunt of not one but two hurricanes, and it appears more dark clouds are poised to visit the Sunshine State.

Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.

If we strive to strengthen our body now; to overcome our faults; to cultivate new virtues; the Sun of our next life will rise under much more auspicious conditions than those under which we now live, and thus we may truly rule our stars and master our fate.

Audiences want to see people break rules for love, to challenge the fates for love.

Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man’s fate.

Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.

Cabbies in particular seem to like discussing the fate the Earth.

I’m a very big believer in fate.

I’m an action player. I like to be aggressive. I don’t like to be on the run. I like to feel like I have the fates in my hands and that through my skill or lack thereof I control my fate.

Not to get too sort of mystical, but I believe in fate. I believe when roles are presented to me in my life they’re for a very specific reason, something for me to learn.

I can’t recall any difficulty in making the C language definition completely open – any discussion on the matter tended to mention languages whose inventors tried to keep tight control, and consequent ill fate.

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

It has become fashionable to rail against government intervention in the economy, and the FHA is a favorite example by those trying to show the government’s overreach. In reality, the FHA shows how government action during the Great Recession forestalled a much worse economic fate.

If you want to avoid the usual fate in politics of failure, you need to understand some basic principles about why people make mistakes and how some people, institutions, and systems cope with mistakes and thereby perform much better than most.

I’m not a big believer in a thing called luck. I believe it has a lot to do with fate and just really having a vision of the way you would see your life.

After Watergate, America was a ship without a rudder. Vietnam was left to its own devices, drifting along towards its fate.

We approached Yahoo and Jerry Yang and said that Hadoop is going to continue to be popular, and as it does, more and more of your team is going to get poached by other companies and come under pressure to leave. This way, you can control your own fate and destiny.

A man’s character is his fate.

But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?

I always loved to gamble. I never got close to a horse. Fate dealt me a terrible blow when it gave me a good horse the first time out. I thought how easy this is. Now I love being around them.

Fate has it in for me to be an exhibit: that funny old lady from the telly.

I didn’t have any ambition to be president. It was fate. The people found me.

Austerity need not be Europe’s fate.

I think quite often a fate worse than death is life, for lots of people.

I’m a big believer in fate.

Look, here’s the deal: The Chiefs’ fate and the Royals’ fate, that’s my fate.

When he entered the Oval Office – by fate, not by design – Citizen Ford knew that he was not perfect, just as he knew he was not perfect when he left. But what president ever was?

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.

The fate of Syria hangs in the balance, but it is entirely possible that the fall of the Assad regime will result in anarchy and cause Syria to turn into a second Afghanistan, a base for anti-Israel terrorism.

It isn’t fate but fecklessness that has shoved Sarah Palin to the sidelines of national politics. The real tragedy is that she’s taken a lot of other serious Republican women with her.

My whole life has been decided by fate.

The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late.

I generally wade in blind and trust to fate and instinct to see me through.

Over the years, I have realized that there’s more to a film’s fate than just good acting and a solid script. It needs to be marketed well. It’s the package that sells – the songs, action, actors, etc.

No one has the license to decide someone’s fate.

In this league, you make your own luck, you make your own fate.

I always put in my 100 percent. Once the film is over, I look at my next, because then it’s up to the audience to decide my fate.

You don’t want to end up living a horribly narcissistic life, do you? And everything about fame and celebrity sort of suggests that kind of fate.

My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything; but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair.

Fate is for losers.

It makes me believe in fate. In most cases, the readings where I’ve been really bad have usually been the ones where I got the part.

The U.N. is biggest platform for all nations. But slowly, its significance, effect, dignity, and use is being reduced. We should worry that we don’t meet the same fate as League of Nations. Their descent was caused as they were not ready for reform. We shouldn’t repeat that mistake.

It is impossible to know what fate will bring. If you love to write or paint, you will keep on writing or painting, and things will either work out or not, and you just have to keep being in the process.

When you’re 15, you’re not really talking about the vicissitudes of fate and failed love and poetry and swordfighting – not a lot is necessarily touching on your own personal experience.

All the asylum clothing is made by the patients, but sewing does not employ one’s mind. After several months’ confinement the thoughts of the busy world grow faint, and all the poor prisoners can do is to sit and ponder over their hopeless fate.

Money has no religion. Money does not belong to any class or creed. Neither it belongs to a gender nor an age. Money decides fate. Money also decides status. Money buys you food and money buys a basic necessity like water too.

Given the gruesome fate of the last Tsar, Nicholas II, and his family, and the fact that five of the previous 12 Romanov rulers were also murdered, it is easy to regard Russia’s imperial dynasty as cursed.

I felt calm when I was called first runner-up because I felt it was fate. But when they announced that I was Miss Universe, I had mixed emotions. I was happy because I really wanted to win but felt sad for Miss Colombia.

It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.

I think some things are just meant to happen; you can’t change your fate. Maybe we have a small amount of control.

By an irony of fate, my first employment was as a draughtsman. I hated drawing; it was for me the very worst of annoyances. Fortunately, it was not long before I secured the position I sought, that of chief electrician to the telephone company.

To have united the purposes of an entire Nation, is the great historical achievement of the man in whose strong hands our President has placed the fate of our people.

What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate.

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

When President Hassan Rouhani was elected in Iran in 2013, he welcomed back the far-flung children of Iran. But one by one, they have been arrested and imprisoned upon their return, a fate that has made me increasingly reluctant to risk going back to a homeland I’ve not seen since 1992.

Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate.

Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.