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The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.
All are architects of Fate, Working in these walls of Time; Some with massive deeds and great, Some with ornaments of rhyme.
The ways of fate are indeed hard to understand. If there is not some compensation hereafter, then the world is a cruel jest.
I was horrified in high school by the fate of the hanged maids at the end of the Odyssey; it seemed unfair to me, even then.
Do we make ourselves into what we become or is it built into our genes, into the fate spun for us by whatever shapes events?
Mitt Romney's energy policy is a relic of the 19th century. We need a 21st century plan. The fate of the planet is at stake.
I don't believe in fate, as in, which I - as a Catholic, I think, sort of predestination. But I certainly believe in chance.
Here's a sigh to those who love me,And a smile to those who hate;And, whatever sky's above me,Here's a heart for every fate.
Fortunate is he whose mind has the power to probe the causes of things and trample underfoot all terrors and inexorable fate.
I was raised to believe that God has a plan for everyone and that seemingly random twists of fate are all a part of His plan.
I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
Farming is the riskiest profession in the world since the fate of the crop is closely linked to the behaviour of the monsoon.
But I have learned a thing or two; I know as sure as fate, when we lock up our lives for wealth, the gold key comes too late.
The laws of changeless justice bind oppressor and oppressed; and, close as sin and suffering joined we march to fate abreast.
Who can control his fate? asks the ruined Othello. No one, indeed. But everyone controls his option, chooses his alternative.
The New Testament, they tell us, is founded upon the prophecies of the Old; if so, it must follow the fate of its foundation.
Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind.
Fate has to do with events in history that are the summary and unintended results of innumerable decisions of innumerable men.
I never used to believe in fate. I used to think you make your own life and then you call it fate. That's why I call it irony.
The defining challenge of the 21st century will be to face the reality that humanity shares a common fate on a crowded planet.
The geometry, the content, and the fate of the universe are all intricately linked. If you know two, you can deduce the third.
In spite of Virtue and the Muse, Nemesis will have her dues, And all our struggles and our toils Tighter wind the giant coils.
For we by conquest, of our soveraine might,And by eternall doome of Fate's decree,Have wonne the Empire of the Heavens bright.
I'm a believer in fate and in fulfilling your destiny. I've always had a kind of inner voice that I have learned to listen to.
Sometimes there are historical moments when a country's course could be turned one way or the other, when fate can be escaped.
Achilles was murdered with a poisoned arrow, and Jason died alone, killed by his own rotting ship. Such is the fate of heroes.
It's just a freak of fate that I'm paid to write, not paying to print my own books - but I'd be doing it anyway: it's my life.
Novels, since the birth of the genre, have been full of rejected, seduced, and abandoned maidens, whose proper fate is to die.
By a twist of fate rather than anything approaching journalistic enterprise, I did the last major interview with Johnny Carson.
Be active! Take on responsibility! Work for the things you believe in. If you do not, you are surrendering your fate to others.
I do not know beneath what sky nor on what seas shall be thy fate; I only know it shall be high, I only know it shall be great.
Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time they have left.
We can say with some assurance that, although children may be the victims of fate, they will not be the victims of our neglect.
In every life there is one particular event that is decisive for the entire person-for his fate, his convictions, his passions.
It is my melancholy fate to like so many people I profoundly disagree with and often heartily dislike people who agree with me.
To be alone is the fate of all great minds—a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils.
Three were the fates. Poverty that chains; gray drudgery that grinds the hope away, and gaping ignorance that starves the soul.
Surely if we knew what bitterness fate held in store, we would shrink back in fear and let the cup of life pass us by untasted.
And sing to those that hold the vital shears; And turn the adamantine spindle round, On which the fate of gods and men is wound.
At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man's unending search for freedom.
Don't waste the breath to save your face, When you have done your best, And even more is asked of you, Let fate decide the rest.
I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay.
Perhaps those, who, trembling most, maintain a dignity in their fate, are the bravest: resolution on reflection is real courage.
It's not your fate to be well treated," Ignatius cried. "You're an overt masochist. Nice treatment will confuse and destroy you.
Why is it we are always the targets of the angry Fates? Twice as many men of ours met harm as did theirs, since we've come here.
We like to think that the fate of the Earth and the fate of human worlds are the same thing, but we're not as important as that.
Ephemerality is the little magazine's generic fate; by promptly dying it gives proof that it remained loyal to its first program.
You can be as mad as a mad dog at the way things went, you can curse the fates, but when it comes to the end, you have to let go.
For myself, I care not whether treason be committed North or South; he that is guilty of treason is entitled to a traitor's fate!
We're deciding the fate of the multiverse with a flip of a coin. Heads or tails, doc. If that isn't a game, I don't know what is.