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Faber est suae quisque fortunae. Each man is the architect of his own fate.

Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.

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

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

Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.

Fate being unfavorable( or without god's grace, even an easy task becomes difficult to accomplish)

Fate does not jest and events are not a matter of chance. There is no existence out of nothing.

Fate" Eve said with a sigh "I'm not sure fate had to burn up your car to get the point across," Shane said, buckling his own seatbelt. "No, not that. The hearse. I'm going to name it Fate." Shane stared at Eve for a long, long few seconds, then slowly shook his head. "Have you considered medication, or-" She flipped him off. "Ah. Back to normal. Excellent.

Fate gives you the finger and you accept.

Fate is a shape-shifter. It is the kindest and most generous entity imaginable, laying out more goodness than a person deserves, and then it shrinks and curls and forms into something grotesque. You think something is one thing, but then it´s another.

Fate is a wheel that turns without our hand

Fate is gonna find you in your glass of champagne.

Fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with death just before dawn. Why? Because this storm isn't something that blew in from far away, something that has nothing to do with you. This storm is you. Something inside of you. So all you can do is give in to it, step right inside the storm, closing your eyes and plugging up your ears so the sand doesn't get in, and walk through it, step by step.

Fate is trying to kill me. I miss my dog. What's a doctor going to say? You're not ill, you're mad as a muffin? They'll either lock me up or tell me to get a grip and no one will believe the truth anyway.

Fate knows all about you, it knows your fears and your weaknesses and your confidences and strengths, and it can be ready for all of them when it decides that the time is right. It can move you like a pawn in a terrible game of chess, sacrifice you for the good of others, drop you from a building you should never have been inside, give you a disease that no one has ever heard of. Luck and chance are impartial. Fate is active. It picks on people. Almost as if it thinks about things too much.

Fate never knows when comedy ends and tragedy begins.

Fate rules the affairs of men, with no recognizable order.

Fate shall yield To fickle Chance, and Chaos judge the strife.

Fate's sentence written on the brow no hand can e'er efface.

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 always gives you two choices, the one you should take, and the one you do.

Fate and victory shift ... now this way, now that way -- like a line of unarmored men under a hail of enemy arrows.

Fate cast me to play the role of an ugly duckling with no promise of swanning. . . . I have played my life as a comedy rather than the tragedy many would have made of it.

Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.

Fate is a quantity very much like TV: an unstoppable narrative, written, produced and directed by somebody else.

Fate isn’t one straight road…there are forks in it, many different routes to different ends. We have the free will to choose the path.

Fate is something you believe in when things are not going well. When they are, you forget it.

Fate loves best such syllables as are sweet and sonorous on the tongue.

Fate loves to invent patterns and designs. Its difficulty lies in complexity. But life itself is difficult because of its simplicity. It has only a few things of a grandeur not fit for us.

Fate only picks on the cowards and quitters, So give 'em both barrels - and aim for the eyes.

Fate pulls you in different directions

Fate rules. You follow the steps and you plan and you work. Then fate slips in laughing and makes fools of us. Sometimes we can trick it or out guess it but most often its already written. For some its written in blood. That doesn't mean we stop, but it does mean we can't comfort ourselves with blame. It's easier to take the blame than to admit there was nothing you could do to stop whatever happened.

Fate always wins, for our own heart within us Imperiously furthers its designs.

Fate, at first so amenable, so reasonable, so open to negotiation, ends up by exacting a cruel revenge for happiness.