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Fate Quotes


"No one dies pre-maturely. As is meant, happens naturally."


"It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals."


"Fate is not in man but around him."


"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."
Fate,


"Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are; the reason or formula by which the world goes on."


"Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing direction."


"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."
Fate,


"The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in ourselves. Easy enough to say when you're a Roman nobleman (or Shakespeare!), but there is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars."


"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."


"Superiority to fate is difficult to gain 'tis not conferred of any but possible to earn."



"Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like."


"Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive."


"Is not an event in fact more significant and noteworthy the greater the number of fortuities necessary to bring it about? ... Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day out, is mute. Only chance can speak to us."


"It seemed as if some subtle current of recognition had passed between them... not as if they had met before... but as if they had come close several times until finally an impatient Fate had forced their paths to intersect."


"Never try to separate soul-mates, destiny might electrocute you."


"If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow."



"The fate of a child is in the hands of his parents."


"Fate had a hand in it - luck had nothing to do with it."


"I don't believe in providence and fate, as a technologist I am used to reckoning with the formulae of probability."
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