Quotes
Quotes about Fate
But when Fate destines one to ruin it begins by blinding the eyes of his understanding.
The fates lead him who will-him who won't they drag.
O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on. That cuckold lives in bliss Who, certain of his fate, loves not his wronger; But O, what damned minutes tells he o'er Who dotes, yet doubts--suspects, yet strongly loves!
Of all the griefs that harass the distress'd, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest; Fate never wounds more deep the generous heart, Than when a blockhead's insult points the dart.
To serve thy generation, this thy fate: "Written in water," swiftly fades thy name; But he who loves his kind does, first and late, A work too late for fame.
On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, And from your judgment must expect my fate.
When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.
Believe in life's message; follow your hearts desired fate.
Yet ah! why should they know their fate?Since sorrow never comes too late,And happiness too swiftly flies.Thought would destroy their paradise.No more; where ignorance is bliss,'Tis folly to be wise. - Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College.
London! the needy villain's general home, The common sewer of Paris and of Rome! With eager thirst, by folly or by fate, Sucks in the dregs of each corrupted state.
The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
Cursed Mammon be, when he with treasures To restless action spurs our fate! Cursed when for soft, indulgent leisures, He lays for us the pillows straight.
Medicine cures the man who is fated not to die.
Alas, by what rude fate Our lives, like ships at sea, an instant meet, Then part forever on their courses fleet.
Woman submits to her fate; man makes his.
It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth. - Chance.
Such a slender moon, going up and up, Waxing so fast from night to night, And swelling like an orange flower-bud, bright, Fated, methought, to round as to a golden cup, And hold to my two lips life's best of wine.
The blackest ink of fate are sure my lot, And when fate writ my name it made a blot.
A nation is a totality of men united through community of fate into a community of character.
My Palestinian intellectual friend tells me that he might be willing to admit that God in Hebrew said Jews could have Israel. But he said Allah did not speak it in Arabic to the Arabs. spoken on the Terry Gross Show .. Arthur Hertzberg is a founder of the Jewish peace group Peace Now and is the author of The Fate of Zionism.
The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. The weak man grows agitated. But the superior man stands up to fate, endures resolutely in his inner certainty If ignorant both.
Ill news is wing'd with fate, and flies apace.
Old noted oak! I saw thee in a mood Of vague indifference; and yet with me Thy memory, like thy fate, hath lingering stood For years, thou hermit, in the lonely sea Of grass that waves around thee!
Public opinion is a weak tyrant, compared with our private opinion--what a man thinks of himself, that is which determines, or rather indicates his fate.
I knock unbidden once at every gate-- If sleeping, wake--if feasting, rise before I turn away--it is the hour of fate, And they who follow me reach every state Mortals desire, and conquer every foe Save death, but those who doubt of hesitate, Condemned to failure, penury and woe, Seek me in vain and uselessly implore, I answer not, and I return no more.
