I’m a great believer in fate. I think things happen in spite of, and despite, yourself.
Personal relationships, mood, chance, or anything like that can actually affect people’s decisions, and when they’re in a position of power, their capriciousness can affect the fate of a nation.
The hand of fate had dipped into the ragbag of humanity.
I’ve had a blessed life. I’ve pulled back from trying to control my destiny and gone back to accepting whatever fate has in store for me. I live for today because I don’t know what’ll happen tomorrow.
Love is such a powerful subject matter because it comes in so many different shapes and sizes. It’s about timing, fate, failure, redemption.
I see publishers bemoaning their fate and saying that this is the end of publishing. No! Publishers will recreate themselves. Some of that comes from my experience as a print publisher.
I really believe that we have the power to manifest our own fates.
Most of the women in Greek tragedies have their fates predetermined. The gods dictate that such and such will happen to them, and everything they predict comes true. Not Medea.
The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.
It goes without saying that the Jewish people can have no other goal than Palestine and that, whatever the fate of the proposition may be, our attitude toward the land of our fathers is and shall remain unchangeable.
You definitely have to be focused at certain times in your life and in your career, but at the end of the day, there’s only so much you can do. Then you just have to chock it up to fate.
I just reached the point where plot-driven novels don’t hold my interest because I don’t care about the fate of characters anymore – whether Emily marries Tom or not, that kind of thing.
Cancer victims who don’t accept their fate, who don’t learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time they have left.
When you put on the suits, when you pretend you’re honest and you’re robbing at a far higher level, these guys deserve to… well, to be in my novels, and I have special fates reserved for them.
You can’t do anything about a film’s fate at the box office.
To live alone is the fate of all great souls.
The god of theater laughs in your face at planning. You can’t plan as an actor; there’s no way, because so much of it is dependent on other people’s choices and decisions that you’re at the whim of fate, really.
I hold that there is a mysterious connection between the fate of this country and that of Mexico; so much so that her independence and capability of sustaining herself are almost as essential to our prosperity and the maintenance of our institutions as they are to hers.
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.
The Dream Act and the DISCLOSE Act, to name two, had majorities in both chambers during Obama’s first term, but they were filibustered to death. They probably await a similar fate unless the filibuster is reformed.
I approached flying with full enthusiasm and even won a scholarship. Fate, it seems, had other plans and after completing my course, i ended up modeling.
You wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you should be bringing about by yourself.
We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
I have complete artistic control, and I just do my best album every time and trust it to fate.
The disaster in the Gulf was no accident. It was the result of years of oil money buying off politicians to lead to an unregulated and ill focused addiction to oil and drilling. The doomed fate of the local fisherman and the environment were foretold in the infamous chants of ‘Drill, Baby, Drill.’
Bemoaning your fate is not going to solve the problem.
Fate is written in the face.
No one should make the mistake of thinking that three or four movies are going to change their fate.
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.
I don’t believe in fate, because I’m not spiritual, but things do seem to work out.
Winners don’t believe in fate like others do. They simply cannot accept defeat.
I do believe in fate – I think you have to. It helps make sense of things.
If your DNA profile puts you at a higher risk of developing obesity, that doesn’t mean it’s your fate. You can take control of the environmental side of the equation and reduce your overall lifetime risk by a lot.
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.
Maybe I was born to be a merchant, maybe it was fate. I don’t know about that. But I know this for sure: I loved retail from the very beginning.
Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations.
I was an agnostic until I realized that I had to choose between God and fate. The idea that humanity and nature are the result of fate was not convincing at all. I find the presence of God everywhere.
Everyone has their own career, their own fate, and everyone writes their own story.
I realised that you just don’t know about destiny. You think you are in control of your fate but, really, you are not. There are other powers at work. You don’t get to see the full picture until decades later.
There is nothing in your background that inherently holds you back or means you can’t achieve what others can achieve. You are the master of your own fate, and if you work hard, you can do what you want.
Names and individuals are unimportant when Germany’s final fate is at stake.
I don’t think anyone is qualified to answer questions of eternal fate definitively, much less pinpoint it to a given day.
I wouldn’t change anything. I think that it’s important to let things happen, and stay ‘happened’. I think that’s all part of the learning curve, part of fate. I’m just glad that it happened.
The word ‘fate’ doesn’t really mean much to me in some ways. I think we make our own.
My intention is to ask the courts and people of Hong Kong to decide my fate.
I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
American policy seems to be wed to a perpetual state of war. Why? History shows that the world will always be in flux or turmoil, with different peoples competing for visibility and power. The U.S. cannot fix the fate of every nation.
If Labour ends up on the scrapheap of history, it will do so because of its own foolishness and self-inflicted wounds. What party in its right mind would allow a combination of far-left enemies, militant trade unions and first-time supporters to decide its fate?
Many other countries in this world are in a difficult situation, and all the Thai people are probably worried about the fate of Thailand: whether the country would survive or not.
I am the master of my fate and I am the captain of my boat. While ups and downs are a part of everyone’s journey, how you face it makes you the person or artiste you are.
Wherever the fates lead us let us follow.
Because characters are your creations, you are the one who ultimately gets to decide their fate.
There are good people who are dealt a bad hand by fate, and bad people who live long, comfortable, privileged lives. A small twist of fate can save or end a life; random chance is a permanent, powerful player in each of our lives, and in human history as well.
When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.
In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country’s fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language!
You could become an overnight star in Bollywood with just single hit, but your fate would change with a single flop. That’s why I do not derive satisfaction however much name I earn for myself in Bollywood.
Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man’s hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.
It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.
Sometimes, the fate of a film is not in your hands, and you can only take home some experiences and what you got to learn during the journey.
That was a sin: to consider yourself victimized or not able to control your destiny or your fate – that was the one cardinal sin in our community.
The Browning love story? It is an ideal, all too rare, and yet I hardly think it strange. It would have been far stranger had the fates allowed those two brilliant passionate souls to beat themselves out in silence.
It’s a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe.
