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Quotes About Fate

Lucky he who has been educated to bear his fate, whatsoever it may be, by an early example of uprightness, and a childish training in honor.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
Thy life is safe while any god saves mine.
~ Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus
Love is only one fine star away.
~ Stevie Nicks
If I had to lay bets, my bet would be that everything is going to go to hell, but, you know, what else have we got except hope?
~ Richard Rorty
There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe ... but not for us.
~ Franz Kafka
Let him that sows the serpent's teeth not hope to reap a joyous harvest. Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, its own avenging angel,--dark misgivings at the inmost heart.
~ Friedrich Schiller
Every jack has his jill; if only they can find each other.
~ Randle Cotgrave
There's a Cuban saying: Bicho malo nunca muere. Loose translation: The good die young but the wicked live forever. It seems to apply to Fidel. I hope it applies to me.
~ Gustavo Perez Firmat
The Empress will follow where you go," she said. "So she will," Mat said. "As I'll follow where she goes, I suppose. I hope that doesn't lead us in too many circles.
~ Robert Jordan
It is my great hope that our paths, however long and winding, will cross again.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
I wonder if there was anything I would have done differently. I hope I would have done everything differently, except I know everything would have turned out the same. That's the meaning of fate.
~ Lisa See
Remember that the future is neither ours nor wholly not ours, so that we may neither count on it as sure to come nor abandon hope of it as certain not to be.
~ Epicurus
The only way you can influence your fate is to put your soul into your performance and hope it registers with the audience.
~ Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
Even now I am full of hope, but the end lies in God.
~ Pindar
If there is such a thing as karma, let's hope that Sarah Palin comes back as a wolf being shot at from a plane.
~ Bill Maher
It all depends whether hope is in front or behind you.
~ William John Locke
God's little Blond Blessing we have long deemed you, and hope his so-called Will will not compel him to revoke you.
~ Emily Dickinson
The universe doesn't owe you a sense of hope
~ Richard Dawkins
Most scars are destined long before they are experienced. Healing is however, a choice,
~ Shilpa Menon
What must it be like to have such faith in the world, in plans, in your own ability to control your fate? It was contagious, that's what it was. I could not help it. I caught his hope like a plague.
~ Amy Lane, Truth in the Dark
Hope says to us constantly "Go on go on " and leads us thus to the grave.
~ Mme. de Maintenon
It is the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination. On personal integrity hangs humanity's fate.
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
The hand of fate had dipped into the ragbag of humanity.
~ Jean Shepherd
Shakespeare said: "There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow." Everything happens perfectly.
~ Frederick Lenz