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Even thou who mournst the daisy's fate, That fate is thine--no distant date; Stern Ruin's ploughshare drives, elate, Full on thy bloom, Till crushed beneath the furrow's weight Shall be thy doom!

Ever heard of anyone executed for distributing copies of Grimm's fairy tales? Imagine people trying to smuggle copies of Hans Christian Andersen's works into China? The Bible, which has been called a mere collection of myths has suffered all of these fates: even today, copies of the Bible are banned and burned. There's something about this ancient book that threatens and frightens those in power.

Everybody has noticed the way cats stop and loiter in a half-open door. Hasn't everyone said to a cat: For heavens sake why don't you come in? With opportunity half-open in front of them, there are men who have a similar tendency to remain undecided between two solutions, at the risk of being crushed by fate abruptly closing the opportunity. The overprudent, cats as they are, and because they are cats, sometimes run more danger than the bold

Every great culture has cared a lot, one way or another, about the fate of its girls.

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.

Every man beholds his human condition with a degree of melancholy. As a ship aground is battered by the waves, so man, imprisonedin mortal life, lies open to the mercy of coming events.

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

Every month, it is woman's fate to face the abyss of time and being, the abyss which is herself.

Every once in a while I feel despair over the fate of the planet. If you’ve been following climate science, you know what I mean: the sense that we’re hurtling toward catastrophe but nobody wants to hear about it or do anything to avert it.

Every one is more or less master of his own fate.

Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.

Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.

Everything necessarily is or is not, and will be or will not be; but one cannot divide and say that one or the other is necessary.I mean, for example: it is necessary for there to be or not to be a sea-battle tomorrow; but it is not necessary for a sea-battle to take place tomorrow, or for one not to take place--though it is necessary for one to take place or not to take place.

Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

Everything that happened to me happened by mistake. I don't believe in fate. It's luck, timing and accident.

Every weed's fate is to bow in front of the wind!

Fatalism is a false premise. What will be is not necessarily what must be.

Fame is fickle. If the media turn against me, I will just have more time in the library. Not bad as a fate.

Fate and free will are equally powerful forces but I consider free will to be more important as it is your free will that determines your fate.

Fate cannot be sidestepped or outrun.

Fate determines many things, no matter how we struggle.

Fate handed Barack Obama the best of all political gifts - a dyspeptic, surly, spiteful opposition on the one hand and very unpopular financiers on the other - and he wouldn't come out punching, name names, or go for the jugular. It was as if while getting mugged by guys with brass knuckles, he turned the other cheek. He even jeopardized his pledge to preserve women's rights under Roe v. Wade in order to get a health care bill written by the corporate lapdog Max Baucus and the gang of revolving door mercenaries he hired to write a bill friendly to industry.

Fate is a manifestation of natural causes. That's it. It's not a conscious entity. It has no plan.

Fate is an obligation I don't understand--the reasons that random beast passed over her deserving soul in favor of mine.

Fate is a sea without a shore, and the soul is a rock that abides.

Fate is a story that's been written for you by somebody else. By your parent's genes, by what happened to you when you were a child, by your culture, by the fact that you were born a man or a woman. Destiny is a story that you write.

Fate is fickle, and the company of unwilling friends short lived.

Fate is the same for the man who holds back, the same if he fights hard. We are all held in a single honor, the brave with the weaklings. A man dies still if he has done nothing, as the one who has done much.

Fate makes us family. choice makes us friends.

Fate rarely calls upon us at a moment of our choosing.

Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.

Fate! There is no fate. Between the thought and the success God is the only agent. Fate is not the ruler, but the servant of Providence.

Fate,Time,Occasion,Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love.

Fate whirls on the bark, and the rough gale sweeps from the rising tide the lazy calm of thought.

Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind.

Fate and necessity are unconquerable.

Fate, Chance, God’s Will — we all try to account for our lives somehow. What are the chances that two raindrops, flung from the heavens, will merge on a windowpane? Gotta be Fate.

Fate finds for every man; his share of misery.

Fate gave to man the courage of endurance.

Fate gives all of us three teachers, three friends, three enemies, and three great loves in our lives. But these twelve are always disguised, and we can never know which one is which until we’ve loved them, left them, or fought them.

fate is not just whose cooking smells good, but which way the wind blows

Fate is not the ruler, but the servant of Providence.

Fate isn't some middle-aged man with a squint who won't recognize you if you change your clothes.

fate is strange.. almost no one i know married the first love of their lives. but for those who did are always telling me that they missed soemthing important, that they didn’t experience all that they might have.." - by the river piedra i sat down and wept

Fate is what Heaven imparts.

Fate laughs at probabilities.

Fate likes to tease paranoids.'

Fate...may...be...thwarted.

"Fate permitting" is a standard Stoic phrase meant to remind ourselves that planning things is up to us, but the ultimate outcomes are not under our control. It helps us to develop an attitude of equanimity toward the universe. We should very much try to change things for the better, that's the whole point of the Stoic discipline of action.

Fate seems to be taking me in some even stranger directions.