Fate Quotes

Saddam's fate should be in the hands of his country men. They were the major victims of his brutal reign and should decide his life, death, or permanent imprisonment. Personally, I would lock him away forever.

~ Ronnie James Dio

To die for one's country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death.

~ Pierre Corneille

The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.

~ Bertrand Russell

In July, 1892, fate suddenly granted me financial independence.

~ Carl Spitteler

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

~ E. E. Cummings

I wouldn't change anything. I think that it's important to let things happen, and stay 'happened'. I think that's all part of the learning curve, part of fate. I'm just glad that it happened.

~ Mike Peters

I believe that fate is choices - it's not chance.

~ Wayne Newton

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

A great novel is concerned primarily with the interior lives of its characters as they respond to the inconvenient narratives that fate imposes on them. Movie adaptations of these monumental fictions often fail because they become mere exercises in interior decoration.

~ Richard Schickel

I wrote my first screenplay on a lark, because it was a storytelling format that felt like a familiar shorthand - we all watch movies, don't we? But even though I grew up in Los Angeles, my family was entirely unconnected with the movie industry, and I never truly believed that it would one day be my fate.

~ Lisa Lutz

When he entered the Oval Office - by fate, not by design - Citizen Ford knew that he was not perfect, just as he knew he was not perfect when he left. But what president ever was?

~ Tom Brokaw

I generally wade in blind and trust to fate and instinct to see me through.

~ Peter Straub

Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate.

~ André Malraux

In a sad twist of fate, the bill to reauthorize the Patriot Act was debated on the floor of the House of Representatives the same day that terrorists struck again.

~ Jim Sensenbrenner

Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.

~ Friedrich Schiller

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

If your DNA profile puts you at a higher risk of developing obesity, that doesn't mean it's your fate. You can take control of the environmental side of the equation and reduce your overall lifetime risk by a lot.

~ David Agus

The euro is our common fate, and Europe is our common future.

~ Angela Merkel