Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.
The fun thing about writing a book with multiple paths and multiple endings is you really get to explore the characters and figure out their different fates.
History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our own?
Just because Fate doesn’t deal you the right cards, it doesn’t mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.
People know more about baseball players’ contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our children’s lives in twenty years. Think about it. People used to say, the whole time I was growing up, ‘Do you want to bring a child into this world?’ That’s pretty dire.
I believe there’s fate, and then you have personal choice. I believe we have the ability to change our fate.
Each film has its own fate, and you can’t go through personal emotions based on the highs and lows of a film.
The euro is our common fate, and Europe is our common future.
I’ve always had real trouble knowing what my actual desires and goals are. I’ve just been dragged along by fate.
I just absolutely needed the theatre so desperately – it was my fate; it was where I was running towards. It was the place where I found peace and survival and all kinds of things.
Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don’t find out til too late that he’s been playing with two queens all along.
Fate keeps on happening.
Fate is never too generous even to its favorites. Rarely do the gods grant a mortal more than one immortal deed.
The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off.
White America’s live under this accusation that they’re racist, they need to prove that they’re not racist. In order to prove that you’re not racist, you need to take over the fate of black people and say, go with us, we’ll engineer you into the future, we’ll engineer you into equality.
The fate of your paycheck, the fate of your small business should not rest on what side of the bed a Washington bureaucrat wakes up on.
King Diamond was always more satanic than Mercyful Fate. And I’m not saying anything bad about Mercyful Fate – I love that band but sometimes people forget that King Diamond is the satanic philosophy through and through.
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.
An evil fate has deprived me of the full use of my right hand, so that I am not able to play my compositions as I feel them. The trouble with my hand is that certain fingers have become so weak, probably through writing and playing too much at one time, that I can hardly use them.
Man blindly works the will of fate.
It seems at times fate knocks on people’s door, and they are too afraid to pursue it.
Many intellectuals feel themselves to be Supermen who are spokesmen for the people. But in my opinion, they’re to be pitied. Under Mao’s dictatorship, these poor sheep suffered the same fate as everyone else.
Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts, our attitudes. That is why many people live in the withering negative world. That is why many people live in the Positive Faith world.
In a sad twist of fate, the bill to reauthorize the Patriot Act was debated on the floor of the House of Representatives the same day that terrorists struck again.
When good befalls a man he calls it Providence, when evil fate.
The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them.
The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!
So I constantly play women who are damaged and out of touch, who are seeking without knowing, or knowing without the skills to transform their lives. But then, that’s really the fate of many women today.
These clashes are the only evolu-tionary possibility which will enable us one day, now that Fate has given us the Fuehrer Adolf Hitler, to create the Germanic Reich.
I do believe in fate.
We put fate in other people’s hands there at Talladega. You have 42 other racers and sometimes it doesn’t work out for you.
I believe in fate, but I also believe that hard work and diligence plays a very important role in our lives.
Sometimes it seems that the fate of the world is decided entirely in the ether of electronic communications and corporate backroom deals.
It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art.
My brother says that I was writing songs about fate while he was off playing soccer. Now I tell him he’s 33 and being a professional while I’m playing soccer with my friends. Ha!
The fate of poetry is to fall in love with the world.
The reason that I keep writing is that all my most powerful messages about the fates of wild places that I care about need to have words as well as images.
Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn’t want me to be too famous too young.
Fate and history have a similar feeling. They are weird mirrors to each other.
Students like my son, who has a place at university which is dependent on getting the right grades, must place his fate in the hands of two groups of people: teachers and a faceless team at Ofqual, the exam regulator.
Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
There’s so many times when you see into the lives of these women in Gilead, and it’s just unbearable. It’s a fate that’s just, I don’t even know how to say it. I don’t have words.
The agricultural revolution transformed the earth and changed the fate of humanity. It produced an entirely new mode of subsistence, which remains the foundation of the global economy to this day.
It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.
Storytelling is the only studio movie where the censorship is perfectly clear, the only studio movie with a big red box covering up a shot. I take pride in that – and, of course, in having avoided the fate of Eyes Wide Shut.
The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the disenchantment of the world.
If our minds were originally formed by nature in a sound and useful manner, then they pass on all the forces of fate, which imposes on us from outside in a relatively unobjectionable and more acceptable way.
To bear is to conquer our fate.
I truly, truly believe that I was going in that direction and all of a sudden fate took me and put me here. It’s like something else has other plans for me.
Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.
Your life moves in patterns toward things, and things that we achieve finally are part of this mosaic. I just think that we create our own fate.
With Obamacare’s fate in jeopardy, Democrats have no solutions to solve the mess they forced upon Americans.
I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.
It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active.
I don’t want to put my fate in country music fans; I’m too stubborn.
Change your plate. Change your fate.
I always believe whatever is written in your fate will happen.
What is the fate of my people in Kurdistan and Sinjar Mountain? What must be done so Yazidis can have their rights?
There is no armor against fate.
Living Life Tomorrow’s fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.
Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.
I think we are intrinsically prone to being irrational and superstitious. A lot of it comes from our fear of the unknown and the fear of a lack of control over our fate.
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.
There are scripts when you fall so much in love with your character. And if you are lucky and offered this part, you should not tempt your fate and go to the greatest extent to be/to play this character. If you have an opportunity to do that and you do not, it’s shameful.
In the many-mansioned house of Alternate History, I occupy a small corner. The trio of what-ifs I chronicled in ‘Then Everything Changed’ all begin with tiny, highly plausible twists of fate that lead to hugely consequential shifts in history.
