Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.
I wanted to be an architect, fate took me to films. Now that I am into politics, I want to give my best here.
Before the Civil War, there were no national cemeteries, no processes for identifying the dead in the battle. There weren’t any dog tags, and there was no next-of-kin notification. You didn’t necessarily even hear what the fate of your loved ones had been. It was up to their comrades to write and inform you.
Although it is true that by fate all things are forced and linked by a necessary and dominant reason, nevertheless the character of our minds is subject to fate in a manner corresponding to their nature and quality.
We call the fates of the Titanic and the Concordia – as well as those of the space shuttles Challenger and Columbia – ‘accidents.’ Foreseeing such undesirable events is what engineers are expected to do. However, design trade-offs leave technological systems open to failings once predicted, but later forgotten.
Can you make a mistake and miss your fate?
A left turn in the fate of Russia is as necessary as it is inevitable.
Is Wall Street the rightful master of our economic fate? Or should we choose a broader form of sovereignty?
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
If you chose to be an actor, if you take that baton and say ‘OK, this is what I want to do with my life.’ you’re really putting your fate and your life in the hands of others.
It’s a myth that you’ll know the box office result of any film. I don’t think anybody can predict a film’s fate accurately, otherwise nobody would make unsuccessful or flop films.
With these men and women who work-for the cause with all their hearts, with cool heads and skilled hands we will master every fate.
I think the fate of ‘Star Wars’ is everlasting, which is great.
‘Robopocalypse’ explores the intertwined fates of regular people who face a future filled with murderous machines. It follows them as humanity foments the robot uprising, fails to recognize the coming storm, and then is rocked to the core by methodical, crippling attacks.
To die for one’s country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death.
A nation is a totality of men united through community of fate into a community of character.
To bare our souls is all we ask, to give all we have to life and the beings surrounding us. Here the nature spirits are intense and we appreciate them, make offerings to them – these nature spirits who call us here – sealing our fate with each other, celebrating our love.
No one wants the United Nations to suffer the fate of the League of Nations, which collapsed because it lacked real leverage. This is possible if influential countries bypass the United Nations and take military action without Security Council authorization.
Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand it.
Exxon fought claims resulting from the Exxon Valdez spill in court for 20 years. Alabama could have suffered the same fate. What would be the benefit to the state or its coastal counties in delaying indefinitely the receipt of monies that we need sooner rather than later?
We’re on some path that’s set since we’re born, but I still believe we can change some things. So I believe in my faith, but I still don’t believe in my fate.
If you can’t change your fate, change your attitude.
Total oblivion is the fate of almost everything in this world. I’m very likely to suffer that same fate; my work will probably not be remembered, and if any of it is, if any of those novels is fated to be one of those novels that is still being read 50 or 100 years after it was written, I’ve probably already written it.
Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.
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.
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.
With Escape the Fate, I was pushing for synths and keyboards and stuff, and everybody was in disagreement with that. They didn’t want to do that.
It takes courage to sit on a jury. How many of us want to decide the fate of another person’s life or freedom? How many of us want to hold that kind of power in our hands?
I write little quotes all the time to help encourage people to come together, like this one: ‘If fate happens to toss you a lightbulb, use it to light the path of others, for they will use theirs to light the path of you. With your light together with mine, it’s two times as bright and twice as strong.’
I believe in fate. I didn’t set out to be a comedian at first. I’m still not sure if I am or not.
There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man’s reason has never learned to separate them.
Here an attempt is made to explain suffering: the outcaste of traditional Hinduism is held to deserve his fetched fate; it is a punishment for the wrongs he did in a previous life.
In the beds which the piety of the public has prepared on every side, stricken men await the verdict of fate.
Fate has many faces.
Only the closest collaborators of the Fuehrer know how difficult is the burden of this responsibility; how sorrowful are the hours during which decisions must be made which bear upon the well being and the fate of all of Germany.
We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don’t give a second thought to the chances we take.
It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.
Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.
The geometry, the content, and the fate of the universe are all intricately linked. If you know two, you can deduce the third.
When there is a danceoff, it’s scary thinking that someone’s destiny or fate is in your hands. I actually always prefer it when the public decide on something rather than four individuals. 11 million people are a lot more powerful than four judges.
In his first 100 days, Mr. Obama has put the fate of his presidency in the hands of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. He may come to regret that decision.
You don’t like to be lied to, by your friends or in your business dealings. So why would you want to be lied to when it comes to the origin of life or the fate of the planet?
Like ‘Uncanny X-Men,’ ‘New Excalibur’ is the story of people thrown together by fate and wild circumstance who find their way to true and lasting friendship.
If something were brought about without an antecedent cause, it would be untrue that all things come about through fate. But if it is plausible that all events have an antecedent cause, what ground can be offered for not conceding that all things come about through fate?
This principle is old, but true as fate, Kings may love treason, but the traitor hate.
I’m not one to fall back into the corner and put my fate in someone else’s hands. I tend to believe anyone in my position would do the same thing.
Fate has blessed me.
The admiral, or commander in chief of a squadron, being frequently invested with a great charge, on which the fate of a kingdom may depend, ought certainly to be possessed of abilities equal to so important a station and so extensive a command.
In my view, the humanity of our world can be measured against the fate of Africa.
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.
I have heard of worse fates than succeeding the longest-serving manager in England.
Casting sometimes is fate and destiny more than skill and talent, from a director’s point of view.
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.
A great novel is concerned primarily with the interior lives of its characters as they respond to the inconvenient narratives that fate imposes on them. Movie adaptations of these monumental fictions often fail because they become mere exercises in interior decoration.
Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!
Fate gives you the finger and you accept.
The Luke Cage you saw in Season One was a reluctant hero. He was trying to figure out if he wanted to be a hero in the first place. And then fate intervened and forced him to step up his game.
We need to take a far more active role in love than ‘Romeo and Juliet’ would lead us to believe. Perhaps that’s what Shakespeare’s saying, in a way. We can’t leave it all up to fate.
The glories of our blood and state, Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate, Death lays his icy hand on kings. Scepter and crown must tumble down, And, in the dust, be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
