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No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.
I've noticed that even people who believe in fate look both ways before crossing the street.
Fate is the magnetic pull of our souls toward the people, places, and things we belong with.
I can imagine few worse fates than walking around for the rest of one's life wearing a typo.
Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free.
What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate.
Our life must once have end; in vain we fly From following Fate; e'en now, e'en now, we die.
Fate wings, with every wish, the afflictive dart, Each gift of nature, and each grace of art.
Fate only picks on the cowards and quitters, So give 'em both barrels - and aim for the eyes.
Tears throw a veil over our faults and allow us to accuse fate without fear or contradiction.
We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.
Innocent people can get into terrible jams, too. One false move and you're in over your head.
Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
A nation is a totality of men united through community of fate into a community of character.
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
Inequalities of Fate very curious. Should like, on this account, to believe in Reincarnation.
If you go into a relationship expecting someone else to fill you up, you're doomed right off.
Nothing to impede progress. If you want to see the fate of democracies, look out the windows.
The last I heard from my destiny, it wanted me to make a legal U-Turn at my next opportunity.
I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
Man blindly works the will of fate. [Ger., Blindlings that er blos den Willen des Geschickes.]
I was 9 when I wrote 'Fate Stay with Me.' It was this fictional song about romance gone wrong.
Fate is something you believe in when things are not going well. When they are, you forget it.
I have complete artistic control, and I just do my best album every time and trust it to fate.
I've lived enough of my life story to know this- Fate writes the book, but you make the movie.
I wonder whether being a scientists daughter makes you so conflicted about free will and fate.
Well, look who I ran into," crowed Coincidence. "Please," flirted Fate, "this was meant to be.
We all have a destiny in accordance with the breadth of our shoulders. My shoulders are broad.
A black conservative is a black who dissents from the victimization explanation of black fate.
What fate can be worse than to know we have no one but ourselves to blame for our misfortunes!
Actors work and slave and it is the color of your hair that can determine your fate in the end.
if we do not know our own history, we are doomed to live it as though it were our private fate.
It's the great soul that surrenders itself to fate, but a puny degenerate thing that struggles.
A prudent man will think more important what fate has conceded to him, than what it has denied.
Fate does not jest and events are not a matter of chance. There is no existence out of nothing.
I wonder whether being a scientist's daughter makes you so conflicted about free will and fate.
The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.
Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.
Though fear should lend him pinions like the wind, yet swifter fate will seize him from behind.
And why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart?
Nobody gives a care about the fate of labor as long as they can get their instant gratification.
Because characters are your creations, you are the one who ultimately gets to decide their fate.
Intentions, good or bad, are not enough. There's luck or fate or something else that takes over.
The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!
In the lexicon of youth which fate reserves for a bright manhood, there is no such word as fail.
But still the block of Vengeance firm doth stand, and Fate, as swordsmith, hammers blow on blow.
In love the heavens themselves do guide the state; Money buys lands, and wives are sold by fate.
We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is manifest destiny.
Every month, it is woman's fate to face the abyss of time and being, the abyss which is herself.
For it is in our nature to endure patiently the decrees of fate, but not the ill-will of others.