History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
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.
Fate is for losers.
Having excessive power in the hands of one country meant the fate of the world was too dependent on what happened in that one country.
The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.
Germany's fate is decided first and foremost in Europe. Reconciliation and cooperation in Europe have brought us freedom, peace and prosperity. Who would have dared to believe so much 50 years ago?
Oh, how sweet it is to pity the fate of an enemy who can no longer threaten us!
I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above; those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love.
Casting sometimes is fate and destiny more than skill and talent, from a director's point of view.
The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.
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.
We have become makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.
Nature, I have constantly argued in my work, is the real superpower of this godless universe. It is the ultimate disposer of human fate, randomly recarving geography over 10,000-year epochs.
Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
Just because Fate doesn't deal you the right cards, it doesn't mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.
Fate, or some mysterious force, can put the finger on you or me, for no good reason at all.
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.
Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate.
A nation is a totality of men united through community of fate into a community of character.
I have a Woody Allen Jewish attitude to life: that it's all going to be disastrous. That it hasn't all been that way is simply down to some random quirk of fate.
My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything; but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair.
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.
You know, fate intervened. I went on to the DCMS committee to have a quieter life before the phone hacking scandal broke, and then ended up investigating the company that had libelled me previously when I was a minister.
Have any of our friends got off the Island with their families, or what must they submit to? Despotism or destruction, I fear, is their fate.
Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.
Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.
Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.
Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.
I'm not in control of my fate, and that's a good thing.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.
Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.
It is impossible to know what fate will bring. If you love to write or paint, you will keep on writing or painting, and things will either work out or not, and you just have to keep being in the process.
You don't like to be lied to, by your friends or in your business dealings. So why would you want to be lied to when it comes to the origin of life or the fate of the planet?
No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation.
I feel like my mum is in heaven sharing a cup of tea with Lady Fate and plotting my life out like a chess game.
