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Injustice in this world is not something comparative; the wrong is deep, clear, and absolute in each private fate.
It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.
We cannot conquer fate and necessity, yet we can yield to them in such a manner as to be greater than if we could.
I think some things are just meant to happen; you can't change your fate. Maybe we have a small amount of control.
It's the people y'gotta watch out for. You never know who y'might meet, or what Ol' Man Fate has in store for yah.
O natal star, thou producest twins of widely different character. [Lat., Geminos, horoscope, varo Producis genio.]
You may not always end up where you thought you were going, But you will always end up where you were meant to be.
Who is it needs such flawless shafts as fate? What archer of his arrows is so choice, or hits the white so surely?
Let's face it, there's no point in running away. I will find that person myself and I will change Saet Byul's fate
Tis the privilege of Art Thus to play its cheerful part, Man on earth to acclimate And bend the exile to his fate.
I don't believe in providence and fate, as a technologist I am used to reckoning with the formulae of probability.
But I despised men who accepted their fate. I shaped mine twenty times and had it broken twenty times in my hands.
An adventure is a situation where the outcome is not entirely within your control. It is up to fate, in other words
Failure to plan brings barrenness and sterility. Fate brushes man with its wings, but we make our own fate largely.
Fate and victory shift ... now this way, now that way -- like a line of unarmored men under a hail of enemy arrows.
Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!
What is the fate of my people in Kurdistan and Sinjar Mountain? What must be done so Yazidis can have their rights?
No one but myself can be blamed for my fall. I have been my own greatest enemy-the cause of my own disastrous fate.
He left it in thy power, ordaind thy will By nature free, not over-rul'd by Fate Inextricable, or strict necessity.
But the case has proved that to be true which Appius says in his songs, that each man is the maker of his own fate.
You don't find love, it finds you. It's got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what's written in the stars.
I believe in luck and fate and I believe in karma, that the energy you put out in the world comes back to meet you.
It'sthe fate of most Ping-Pong tables in home basements eventually to serve the ends of other, more desperate games.
The idea that people should be allowed to decide something about their own fate is just anathema to European elites.
--nor had I understood til then how the shameless vanity of utter fools can so strongly determine the fate of others
Societies are healthiest when their radius of trust is broad and when people feel they can influence their own fate.
Man is perishing. That may be, and if it is nothingness that awaits us let us so act that it will be an unjust fate.
Providence has given human wisdom the choice between two fates: either hope and agitation, or hopelessness and calm.
That she bear children is not a woman's significance. But that she bear herself, that is her supreme and risky fate.
Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.
Fate, at first so amenable, so reasonable, so open to negotiation, ends up by exacting a cruel revenge for happiness.
If anyone does not love the Lord Jesus Christ, let them be accursed at His coming. God save you from your fate. Amen!
The fate of war is to be exalted in the morning, and low enough at night! There is but one step from triumph to ruin.
The Fates are here because of supernal anger, celestial imbalance, and arrogance of men and gods that must be curbed.
We must recognize what in our accepted tradition is damaging to our fate and dignity-and shape our lives accordingly.
There can be no Creator, simply because his grief at the fate of his creation would be inconceivable and unendurable.
Don't bemoan your fate. Everybody's not going to be dealt the same hand. Everybody's going to go through tough times.
The most noble fate a man can endure is to place his own mortal body between his loved home and the war's desolation.
What's the good of having mastery over cosmic balance and knowing the secrets of fate if you can't blow something up?
See how the Fates their gifts allot, For A is happy-B is not. Yet B is worthy, I dare say, Of more prosperity than A.
My goal was, and still is, to write first, direct my own stuff whenever possible and control my own creative destiny.
Indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not.
The esteem of good men is the reward of our worth, but the reputation of the world in general is the gift of our fate.
To deserve this fate what have I ever done?... All I want is just a little piece of mind but the angels won't have it.
Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.
On our current path, all our great Gulf and Atlantic coast cities are at risk of meeting the same fate as New Orleans.
Every soul has a landscape that changes with the wind that sweeps the sky, with the clouds that return after its rain.
I don't know yet whether I fully believe in fate, but certain things do happen in a man's life that he cannot explain.
Children's books are written for upbringing...but upbringing is a great thing; it decides the fate of the human being.
Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.