My fate is in the hands of almighty Allah. I will deliver to the Gambian people and if I have to rule this country for one billion years, I will, if Allah says so.
There is no armor against fate.
The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the disenchantment of the world.
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
Homelessness is the actor's fate; physical incapacity to attain what is most required and desired by such a spirit as I am a slave to.
And if you cannot remain indifferent, you must resolve to throw your weight into that balance in which the fate and condition of man is weighed.
It is the fate of operating systems to become free.
If you do not create your destiny, you will have your fate inflicted upon you.
Suffer not thy wrongs to shroud thy fate, But turn, my soul, to blessings which remain.
In July, 1892, fate suddenly granted me financial independence.
Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more; if future fortunes were known before!
What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate.
Early in my life, without any supporting evidence, I fretted over what I believed was my fate: accidentally becoming an international pop star. The pages of my diary were filled with hypothetical ethical dilemmas.
When good befalls a man he calls it Providence, when evil fate.
I'm eternally grateful to fate and the citizens of Russia that they've trusted me to be the head of the Russian government.
The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late.
That's life. Whichever way you turn, fate sticks out a foot to trip you.
Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but mind; which experienced a similar fate from the hand of Mr. Hume in 1737.
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.
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.
Fate is never too generous even to its favorites. Rarely do the gods grant a mortal more than one immortal deed.
The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!
It has become fashionable to rail against government intervention in the economy, and the FHA is a favorite example by those trying to show the government's overreach. In reality, the FHA shows how government action during the Great Recession forestalled a much worse economic fate.
Love cannot save you from your own fate.
It is the customary fate of new truths, to begin as heresies, and to end as superstitions.
In my writing with Extreme, there are heavy themes. The cover photo has me with a gun to my neck. I am not advocating suicide. I am taking the philosophy that man is the measure of his own fate.
I don't believe in fate.
People who write about technology love to huff and puff and hyperbolize. The fate of the entire world seems to hang on every move made by Microsoft or Google or Apple. Every new smart phone gets billed as a potential 'iPhone killer,' while every new product from Apple represents the dawn of a new era. It's ridiculous - and exhausting.
Things go bad after a divorce and often stay that way. It is rare for the parties to return placidly to a time before they met. A bitterness lingers on. Those who call this our Independence Day, fantasising of returning to a never-never time before they married, when they were free, easy, single, and master of their fate, are delusional.
It seems at times fate knocks on people's door, and they are too afraid to pursue it.
I remember my agent at ICM at the beginning of my career telling me that I wasn't pretty enough, that I was always going to be a quirky sidekick. And he was an ogre of a man. He should have been carrying a torch. If he was in a bar, he couldn't have come near me, and then he was deciding my fate.
By a twist of fate rather than anything approaching journalistic enterprise, I did the last major interview with Johnny Carson.
My fate is to be President of the Republic - or leader of the opposition.
The fate of the singers who, like my songs, went up in flame was also the fate of the books which I later wrote. All of them went up in flame to Heaven in a fire which broke out one night at my home in Bad Homburg as I lay ill in a hospital.
George W. Bush is always protesting that he has the fate of the world in mind and bangs on about the 'freedom-loving peoples' he's seeking to protect. I'd love to meet a freedom-hating people.
'The Sound of Things Falling' may be a page turner, but it's also a deep meditation on fate and death. Even in translation, the superb quality of Vasquez's prose is evident, captured in Anne McLean's idiomatic English version. All the novel's characters are well imagined, original and rounded.
