261 Fate Quotes for You to Enjoy

The compulsion of fate is bitter. Christoph Martin Wieland

Fate Bitter Compulsion

Of causes, some are complete and primary, others auxiliary and proximate. Hence, when we say that all things come about through fate by antecedent causes, we do not mean this to be understood as 'by complete and primary causes,' but 'by auxiliary and proximate causes.' Chrysippus

Fate Others Complete Say All Things Some About Through Primary Come Understood Causes Mean Hence Things

If something were brought about without an antecedent cause, it would be untrue that all things come about through fate. But if it is plausible that all events have an antecedent cause, what ground can be offered for not conceding that all things come about through fate? Chrysippus

Events Fate Cause Would Would-Be All Things Brought About Something Through Come Untrue Without Were Offered Ground Plausible Things

Fate is a sempiternal and unchangeable series and chain of things, rolling and unraveling itself through eternal sequences of cause and effect, of which it is composed and compounded. Chrysippus

Fate Cause Composed Compounded Unraveling Unchangeable Through Effect Itself Rolling Which Eternal Chain Series Things

Although it is true that by fate all things are forced and linked by a necessary and dominant reason, nevertheless the character of our minds is subject to fate in a manner corresponding to their nature and quality. Chrysippus

Nature Character Quality Fate Our Minds Corresponding All Things True Nevertheless Forced Although Subject Linked Dominant Manner Reason Things Necessary

It was a double jolt for me. The jolt of seeing my father slowly die, the jolt of knowing that I was diabetic and could meet the same fate if I didn't take care of myself. Dan Hill

Myself Me Fate Care Father Meet Seeing Slowly Could Take Take Care Knowing Diabetic Die Same Double

That's Quentin. He's an absolute master of his own fate. If he agrees with you, he'll change his mind instantly. If he thinks that he's right, there's no way you can get him to change his mind. David Carradine

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Winners don't believe in fate like others do. They simply cannot accept defeat. David Silva

Fate Believe Defeat Others Winners Simply Like Accept Cannot

It isn't fate but fecklessness that has shoved Sarah Palin to the sidelines of national politics. The real tragedy is that she's taken a lot of other serious Republican women with her. Dee Dee Myers

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I can't recall any difficulty in making the C language definition completely open - any discussion on the matter tended to mention languages whose inventors tried to keep tight control, and consequent ill fate. Dennis Ritchie

The fate of poetry is to fall in love with the world. Derek Walcott

Love World Fate Fall Poetry

Anyone working in the media can tell you that there seems to be an always-ready-to-explode segment of the populace for whom offense is a fate worse than anything imaginable. You'd think offense is one of the most calamitous things that could happen to a human being; right up there with the loss of a limb, or just missing a parking space. Dick Cavett

You Human Being Fate Space Think Worse Tell Seems Segment Parking Could Missing Most Limb Loss Up Offense Than Human Just Being Anyone Happen Anything Working Populace Media Whom Right Things Imaginable

Scotland and England may sometimes be rivals, but by geography, we are also neighbours. By history, allies. By economics, partners. And by fate and fortune, comrades, friends and family. Douglas Alexander

Family History Fate Sometimes Comrades Economics Neighbours Allies Rivals Also Partners Geography Friends Friends And Family Scotland May Fortune England

'The Sound of Things Falling' may be a page turner, but it's also a deep meditation on fate and death. Even in translation, the superb quality of Vasquez's prose is evident, captured in Anne McLean's idiomatic English version. All the novel's characters are well imagined, original and rounded. Edmund White

Death Quality Fate Translation Meditation Evident Characters Superb Prose Anne Also Well Sound Falling Version May Turner Page English Deep Original Even Novel Captured Rounded Things Imagined

The havoc wrought by war, which one compares with the havoc wrought by nature, is not an unavoidable fate before which man stands helpless. The natural forces that are the cause of war are human passions, which it lies in our power to change. What are culture and civilization if not the taming of blind forces within us as well as in nature? Ellen Key

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