Oh, how sweet it is to pity the fate of an enemy who can no longer threaten us!
I’m a big believer in fate, and it’s working out well so far.
I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate.
You are the one who makes the choices that control your fate.
I did makeup for a plus-size model a month after I officially quit acting. It was just fate. The photographer was like, ‘Have you ever thought of modeling?’ It may have been the one thing I never thought was possible for me.
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.
I never hid my move to Real Madrid was almost done… my fate changed, and I arrived at Barcelona instead.
I’ve got a room full of scripts. They go to the ceiling. I can’t even hardly walk into it anymore. Most are original, and there are some adaptations like ‘Man’s Fate.’
Radio Shack is meeting the fate of many other stores that were wildly popular in the twentieth century, including record stores, comic book stores, bookstores and video stores.
In both world wars, Britain understood that our national sovereignty could only endure if we cooperated with other nations. That our fate is inexorably bound with that of our neighbours.
Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things.
My fate is to be President of the Republic – or leader of the opposition.
In July, 1892, fate suddenly granted me financial independence.
The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
I actually wanted to be a doctor. But doing all those horrid rat dissections made me faint. I studied science till the 12th standard and later took up commerce. I was planning to do chartered accountancy, but fate had something else in store for me.
As an actor, I feel my job is to perform with utmost honesty and then it is just the film’s fate. Of course, you want as many people as possible to watch your film, but there are too many factors and circumstances that come in between.
The futures and ultimate fates of the characters in The Snow Queen are profoundly changed by choices made in their own minds or hearts, as well as choices unexpectedly forced on them by things beyond their control.
I think we all have our own mission, duty, fate in life so for me somehow I think I am always walking on the edge of life and take risks.
At 16 I was very interested in palmistry. The fate line on my right palm broke into two parts that ran for a quarter of an inch on parallel tracks. I used to look at it and wonder, ‘What will happen?’
Germany’s fate is decided first and foremost in Europe. Reconciliation and cooperation in Europe have brought us freedom, peace and prosperity. Who would have dared to believe so much 50 years ago?
I’m a believer in fate and in fulfilling your destiny. I’ve always had a kind of inner voice that I have learned to listen to.
I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me.
It is the fate of operating systems to become free.
I’m not somebody that thinks about destiny and fate, but I don’t walk away from it when something unfolds.
I can control my destiny, but not my fate. Destiny means there are opportunities to turn right or left, but fate is a one-way street. I believe we all have the choice as to whether we fulfil our destiny, but our fate is sealed.
I can read significance into tiny, tiny things. If I’d met someone 10 years ago and not seen them again, and then I suddenly bumped into them, I’d feel that that was ‘meant,’ or there’s a fate, you know?
‘Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice”s story is one of fate and growth.
Fate was dealing from the bottom of the deck.
Several hundreds of thousands of Palestinian Arabs live in slums known as refugee camps in Gaza, Judea, and Somalia. Attempts by Israel to rehabilitate and oust them have been defeated by Arab objections. Nor has their fate been any better in Arab states.
Personally, I would say the ‘master’ of this whole thing is fate… Whoever is on the playing field is fair game, and it’s up to them to avoid being used.
There are people who recall my father as a saint and a monster. I’m quite sure I will share the same fate.
The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.
My biggest fear growing up was that I would end up in prison. That was the fate of growing numbers of my peers.
If I only acted, I feel like I wouldn’t have enough creative expression over my own sensibility, and also if I only acted, the notion of surrendering my fate and future to other people is deeply unsettling to me and it would make me uncomfortable.
I haven’t wasted many opportunities that fate gave me.
If you want to work as a head coach and to lead a group of people there is no option to feel sorry for yourself or to complain about fate conspiring against you.
If I believed in fate I’d be very curious why I picked the name Silver Jews.
History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
It seemed like my favourite kind of job – a wonderful chance to ask something absolutely fundamental: the fate of the Universe and whether the Universe was infinite or not.
Fate, or some mysterious force, can put the finger on you or me, for no good reason at all.
In days when the public safety is imminently threatened, and the fate of a nation may hang upon a single act, we owe frank speech, above all other men, to him who is highest in authority. I shall speak to you as man to man.
The fate of the vast majority of species on this planet has been extinction, eventually.
As a nation we have the right to decide our own affairs, to mould our own future. This does not pose any danger to anybody. Our nation is fully aware of the responsibility for its own fate in the complicated situation of the contemporary world.
Our fates are in the hands of An Almighty God, to whom I can with pleasure confide my own; he can save us, or destroy us; his Councils are fixed and cannot be disappointed, and all his designs will be Accomplished.
My dream was to play in good films, no matter in what country. I always waited for a decent script, and nothing has changed. I’m just sure that nothing in life is random, and I believe in the fate which guides you. Probably my starring in ‘A Good Day to Die Hard’ is good proof of that.
I’d been kind of a hiccup in my parents’ lives. They lost track of me and I didn’t know what I was going to do with myself. And then fate reached in and took me in its hands. I was discovered right out of high school and started getting work.
Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate… but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.
It is past time for women to take their rightful place, side by side with men, in the rooms where the fates of peoples, where their children’s and grandchildren’s fates, are decided.
Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more; if future fortunes were known before!
You shouldn’t think about the fate of the films. The film might succeed or fail, but your performance must be good. You should work hard for every film.
The only way you can influence your fate is to put your soul into your performance and hope it registers with the audience.
All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks.
Today the fate of humankind is even more crucially linked than ever before. The boundaries between the problems of ‘others’ and ‘our’ problems are being increasingly erased.
What annoys me about it is that your fate is always in somebody else’s hands. It’s always up to somebody else to decide whether or not they want you in their show and so the majority of actors have to play out a waiting game. The constant fear is that it could all end tomorrow.
Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
I don’t believe in providence and fate, as a technologist I am used to reckoning with the formulae of probability.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
In truth, I never dreamed of being a manager. Like every other boy in Brazil who was marked by the ’70 World Cup, I dreamed of wearing the yellow shirt for the national team. Unfortunately, that was not my fate. I had to undergo seven surgeries on my knee. At 27, my career was over, and I was still a young man.
The history of England, who has always dealt most harshly with her vanquished foe in the few European wars in which she has taken part in modern times, gives us Germans an idea of the fate in store for us if defeated.
