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This has ever been the fate of energy in security; it takes to art and to eroticism, and then comes languor and decay.
How wisely fate ordain'd for human kind Calamity! which is the perfect glass, Wherein we truly see and know ourselves.
You cannot tell whether a person is good or bad by his vicissitudes in life. Good and bad fortune are matters of fate.
What I have left is from my native spring; I've still a heart that swells, in scorn of fate, And lifts me to my banks.
It is the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination. On personal integrity hangs humanity's fate.
Let's summon the courage to insist on a minimal level of civic knowledge for the citizens empowered to decide our fate.
There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learnt to separate them.
I feel blessed. I never wanted to be an actor. It just happened all by chance and fate. I was studying to be a teacher.
The fate of the universe is a decision yet to be made, one which we will intelligently consider when the time is right.
What do the contours of your body mean, laid out like the lines on a hand, so that I no longer see them except as fate?
This is called synchronicity - a state in which you almost feel as if you are in a collaborative arrangement with fate.
It is comforting to think that we can love so powerfully that fate itself wheels and turns at the command of our souls.
How unfair the fate which ordains that those who have the least should be always adding to the treasury of the wealthy.
The furnace which melts gold, also hardens clay. Before blaming thy fate, therefore, find whether thou art gold or clay.
We are not heavenly destined for a particular road; every road is our destiny; every path and every passage is our fate.
The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.
There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learned to separate them.
Fate is an obligation I don't understand--the reasons that random beast passed over her deserving soul in favor of mine.
Politicians and journalists share the same fate in that they often understand tomorrow the things they talk about today.
Genius is personal, decided by fate, but it expresses itself by means of system. There is no work of art without system.
We cannot bear to regard ourselves simply as playthings of blind chance, we cannot admit to feeling ourselves abandoned.
There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.
God overrules all mutinous accidents, brings them under His laws of fate, and makes them all serviceable to His purpose.
Bottle, whose Mysterious Deep Do's ten thousand Secrets keep, With attentive Ear I wait; Ease my Mind, and speak my Fate.
I leave you, home, when I'm ripped from the doorstep by commerce or fate. Then I submit to the awful subway of the world.
The good news about entrepreneurship is that your fate is in your hands. The bad news is that your fate is in your hands!
The whole army is burning with an insatiable desire to wreak violence upon South Carolina. I almost tremble for her fate.
I don't think anyone is qualified to answer questions of eternal fate definitively, much less pinpoint it to a given day.
I think there is certainly luck and fate involved in any career of any kind. In show business, maybe it's even more true.
Fate is a funny character. She puts obstacles in your path to see what character ye have. Life isn't fair,life is a test.
It is true fortitude to stand firm against All shocks of fate, when cowards faint and die In fear to suffer more calamity.
The Stoics also teach that God is unity, and that he is called Mind and Fate and Jupiter, and by many other names besides.
For him who fain would teach the world The world holds hate in fee- For Socrates, the hemlock cup; For Christ, Gethsemane.
A millstone and the human heart are driven ever round, If they have nothing else to grind, they must themselves be ground.
When you think to take determination of your fate into your own hands, that is the moment you can be crushed. Be cautious.
The turn of a sentence has decided the fate of many a friendship, and, for aught that we know, the fate of many a kingdom.
I believe in fate, I believe in hard work, and I feel like if I just keep marching, the path will kind of appear before me.
Most of the things I do are misunderstood. Hey, after all, being misunderstood is the fate of all true geniuses, is it not?
Many men would take the death-sentence without a whimper, to escape the life-sentence which fate carries in her other hand.
Our lives are of great worth if we accept with good grace the situation Providence places us in, and go on living lovingly.
The gene 'klotho' was named after the Greek Fate purported to spin the thread of life, because it contributes to longevity.
After Watergate, America was a ship without a rudder. Vietnam was left to its own devices, drifting along towards its fate.
I'm eternally grateful to fate and the citizens of Russia that they've trusted me to be the head of the Russian government.
Destiny and fate are of one’s own making, and riches and happiness are rarely found at the end of an easily-traversed path.
Nico was wrong. The Book of Fate isn't already written. It's written every day. Some scars never heal. Then again, some do.
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.
The only way you can influence your fate is to put your soul into your performance and hope it registers with the audience.
Oh, Vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of Fate are; How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are!
The natural state of a start-up is to die; most start-ups require multiple miracles in their early days to escape this fate.
Dancing in the dark. Does fortune wait or just the black hand of fate, It'll take your God filled soul. Fill it with devils.