Quotes with fate

Quotes 21 till 40 of 143.

  • Alexander Pope But thousands die without or this or that, die, and endow a college, or a cat: To some, indeed, Heaven grants the happier fate, Tenrich a bastard, or a son they hate.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Billy Joel Come out, Virginia, don't let me wait. You Catholic girls start much too late, Ah, but sooner or later it comes down to fate. I might as well be the one.
    Only the Good Die Young (1977)
    Billy Joel
    American singer-songwriter and pianist (1949 - )
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  • Thomas Gray Commerce changes the fate and genius of nations.
    Thomas Gray
    British poet (1716 - 1771)
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  • Aeschylus Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Barry Cornwall Enter upon thy paths, O year! Thy paths, which all who breathe must tread, Which lead the Living to the Dead, I enter; for it is my doom To tread thy labyrinthine gloom; To note who round me watch and wait; To love a few; perhaps to hate; And do all duties of my fate.
    Barry Cornwall
    English poet (pen name of Bryan Procter) (1787 - 1874)
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  • Caitlin Doughty Ever since childhood, when I found out that the ultimate fate for all humans was death, sheer terror and morbid curiosity had been fighting for supremacy in my mind.
    Caitlin Doughty
    American author, blogger (1984 - )
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  • Caitlin Flanagan Every great culture has cared a lot, one way or another, about the fate of its girls.
    Caitlin Flanagan
    American writer
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  • Alfred Adler Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand it.
    Alfred Adler
    Austrian psychiatrist (1870 - 1937)
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  • Charles Baudelaire Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • C. Wright Mills Fate has to do with events in history that are the summary and unintended results of innumerable decisions of innumerable men.
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Elizabeth Bowen Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.
    Elizabeth Bowen
    Anglo-Irish Novelist (1899 - 1973)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Citium Zeno Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are; the reason or formula by which the world goes on.
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  • Anita Loos Fate keeps on happening.
    Anita Loos
    American writer, screenwriter (1889 - 1981)
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  • Plutarch Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Seneca Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Don Marquis Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.
    Don Marquis
    American writer (1878 - 1937)
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  • Seneca Fate rules the affairs of men, with no recognizable order.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Fate, then, is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought; for causes which are unpenetrated.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Camille Paglia Feminism has exceeded its proper mission of seeking political equality for women and has ended by rejecting contingency, that is, human limitation by nature or fate.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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