Fate Quotes

To bear is to conquer our fate.

When I need a word and do not find it in French, I select it from other tongues, and the reader has either to understand or translate me. Such is my fate.

Character and fate are two words for the same thing.

I have never seen such extreme partisanship, such bitter partisanship, and such forgetfulness of the fate of our fathers and of the Constitution.

My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact.

Fate destined me to play Fagin. It was the part of a lifetime, and I was the only actor to be in the stage production and in the film.

There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learned to separate them.

All the nations they had to deal with, had the same fate.

Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.

The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!

France cannot be destroyed. She is an old country who, despite her misfortunes, has, and always will have, thanks to her past, a tremendous prestige in the world, whatever the fate inflicted upon her.

If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way.

In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us is an epoch of stupendous happenings.

In the first instance, therefore, global terrorism created a kind of global community sharing a common fate, something we had previously considered impossible.

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

The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the disenchantment of the world.

No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation.

If there's any business that instructs you in the strong hand of fate, it's show business. You can plan and plan, but it's what happens to you that really determines what your career will be like.

Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out til too late that he's been playing with two queens all along.

It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.

A person may rightfully be happy if in this life he could do a great favor for widows and orphans, could assist support than, and facilitate fate of people.

Storytelling is the only studio movie where the censorship is perfectly clear, the only studio movie with a big red box covering up a shot. I take pride in that - and, of course, in having avoided the fate of Eyes Wide Shut.

We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.

I'm an action player. I like to be aggressive. I don't like to be on the run. I like to feel like I have the fates in my hands and that through my skill or lack thereof I control my fate.

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.

Maybe our mistakes are what make our fate.

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

I'd been kind of a hiccup in my parents' lives. They lost track of me and I didn't know what I was going to do with myself. And then fate reached in and took me in its hands. I was discovered right out of high school and started getting work.

What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate.

It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.