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Every high C accurately struck demolishes the theory that we are the irresponsible puppets of fate or chance.
Sometimes life has a cruel sense of humor, giving you the thing you always wanted at the worst time possible.
I've always thought that the most perfect fate which could befall any woman would be to be born a rich widow.
Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are; the reason or formula by which the world goes on.
But if something was really important, fate made sure it somehow came back to you and gave you another chance.
I discovered that maybe it was fate all along, that faith was just an illusion that somehow you're in control.
if the right man does not come along, there are many fates far worse. One is to have the wrong man come along.
In that twisted incestuous way of fate, Mia's a part of our history, and we're among the shards of her legacy.
To keep our faces toward chance and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.
I remain unconvinced that anything other than rapid decomposition is the fate of my body and mind after death.
History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
We create our fate every day . . . most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.
The fate of the world rests on this one thing: our capacity to actualize our spiritual potential, and quickly.
And over your unconsecrated head you'll hear the howling wolves lament their fate and yours the livelong year.
A common soldier will make an empire, but he will eventually meet his fate and be condemned to the Great Rock.
My biggest fear growing up was that I would end up in prison. That was the fate of growing numbers of my peers.
It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.
I think fate is massive, and it's never really had its place among forces we respect as having control over us.
Fate has never ladled out hardship very evenly, and this frequently trips our often infantile sense of justice.
No one is so accursed by fate, no one so utterly desolate, but some heart though unknown responds unto his own.
I feel like my mum is in heaven sharing a cup of tea with Lady Fate and plotting my life out like a chess game.
If your awareness was strong enough, you could change the fate of a whole world without ever leaving your room.
The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.
Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.
Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.
Fate is like a train. When it flies past, you can choose if you want to get on it or not, to say no or say yes.
When I take up a project, I'm not foretold its fate... I don't know whether the film will shape up well or not.
The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.
Thou must (in commanding and winning, or serving and losing, suffering or triumphing) be either anvil or hammer.
Devotion is the realization that wealth, education and power are God given gifts and not the endowments of fate.
Fate is a quantity very much like TV: an unstoppable narrative, written, produced and directed by somebody else.
I've always had real trouble knowing what my actual desires and goals are. I've just been dragged along by fate.
To say you loved a person. / To say that person no longer exists. / A tragic flawed fate going on and on and on.
You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve.
Fate is never too generous even to its favorites. Rarely do the gods grant a mortal more than one immortal deed.
I've always been incapable of accepting fate, and I've always refused to die, and that has helped me to survive.
I'm afraid that surprise, shock, and regret is the fate of authors when they finally see themselves on the page.
The blessings of one mountain day, whatever his fate, long life, short life, stormy or calm, he is rich forever.
Alas, by what rude fate Our lives, like ships at sea, an instant meet, Then part forever on their courses fleet.
It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.
Even though marriage is doomed, if you turned it into a job you like and really work at it - it can be salvaged.
It's precisely because we're people that we have the power to change our own fate. So let's all change together.
Will you be a reader, a student merely, or a seer? Read your fate, seewhat isbefore you, and walkon intofuturity.
But for a few twists of fate, the gasoline engine we know today might have just been a small footnote in history.
I weave the shoes of Sorrow: Soundless shall be the footfall light In all men's ears of Sorrow, Sudden and light.
It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.
It is a grief over the fate of the Earth that contains within it a joyful hope, that we might reclaim this Earth.
African famine is not a visitation of fate. It is largely man-made, and the men who made it are largely Africans.
I warn you, Eragon, beware of whom you fall in love with, for fate seems to have a morbid interest in our family.
It is often a comfort in misfortune to know our own fate. [Lat., Saepe calamitas solatium est nosse sortem suam.]