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We've got to break through the wall of secrecy. It's America's fate.

We were created in order to live in Paradise, and Paradise was ordained to serve us. What was ordained for us has been changed; it is not said that this has also happened with what was ordained for Paradise.

We were taught never to give up, never to passively accept fate, but to exhaust every last ounce of will and hope in the face of any challenge.

We were impelled to remain loyal for a while to the memory of Penny. It was a form of the old fashioned custom of going into mourning. It is not a question of going around with a long face. It is just a question of having a pause between the old and the new. No haste to find a substitute for the one who has given you love for years. Wait, and let fate provide the answer.

What a good thing, for instance, it was that one princess should sleep for a hundred years! Was she not saved from all the plague of young men who were not worthy of her? And did not she come awake exactly at the right moment when the right prince kissed her? For my part, I cannot help wishing a good many girls would sleep till just the same fate overtook them. It would be happier for them, and more agreeable to their friends.

What a fate: to be condemned to work for a firm where the slightest negligence at once gave rise to the gravest suspicion! Were all the employees nothing but a bunch of scoundrels, was there not among them one single loyal devoted man who, had he wasted only an hour or so of the firm's time in the morning, was so tormented by conscience as to be driven out of his mind and actually incapable of leaving his bed?

What, after all, is heaven, but a transition from dim guesses and blind struggling with a mysterious and adverse fate to the fullness of all wisdom--from ignorance, in a word, to knowledge, but knowledge of what order?

What a gulf between impression and expression! That’s our ironic fate—to have Shakespearean feelings and (unless by some billion-to-one chance we happen to be Shakespeare) to talk about them like automobile salesmen or teen-agers or college professors. We practice alchemy in reverse—touch gold and it turns into lead; touch the pure lyrics of experience, and they turn into the verbal equivalents of tripe and hogwash.

What can be avoided Whose end is purposed by the mighty gods?

what cannot be saved when fate takes, patience her injury a mockery makes

What can i tell you about the choices we make? Fate reads like the polar opposite of decision, and so much of life reads like fate.

What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.

What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks.

What do the contours of your body mean, laid out like the lines on a hand, so that I no longer see them except as fate?

What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.

Whatever be thy fate today, Remember, this will pass away!

Whatever happens, it happens because we choose for it. We decide our fates.

Whatever limits us we call fate.

Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed.

Whatever is not conscious will be experienced as fate.

Whatever may happen to thee, it was prepared for thee from all eternity.

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

What fates impose, that men must needs abide; it boots not to resist both wind and tide.

What fate can be worse than to know we have no one but ourselves to blame for our misfortunes!

What has changed about an entire generation of young people includes not only neoliberal society's disinvestment in youth and the lasting fate of downward mobility, but also the fact that youth live in a commercially carpet-bombed and commodified environment that is unlike anything experienced by those of previous generations. Nothing has prepared this generation for the inhospitable and savage new world of commodification, privatization, joblessness, frustrated hopes and stillborn projects.

What humans do over the next 50 years will determine the fate of all life on the planet.

What I have left is from my native spring; I've still a heart that swells, in scorn of fate, And lifts me to my banks.

What interests me is the surprising enormous extent to which most people accept the fate that's been given to them, and find some dignity.

What is a modern poet's fate? / To write his thoughts upon a slate; / The critic spits on what is done, / Gives it a wipe - and all is gone.

What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects. What is life but what a man is thinking of all day? This is his fate and his employer. Knowing is the measure of the man. By how much we know, so we are.

What is one's personality, detached from that of the friends with whom fate happens to have linked one? I cannot think of myself apart from the influence of the two or three greatest friendships of my life, and any account of my own growth must be that of their stimulating and enlightening influence.

What psycho-analysis reveals in the transference phenomena of neurotics can also be observed in the lives of some normal people. The impression they give is of being pursued by a malignant fate or possessed by some 'daemonic' power; but psycho-analysis has always taken the view that their fate is for the most part arranged by themselves and determined by early infantile influences.

"What we control," Juliette said, "is our actions once fate puts us there.

What people commonly call fate is mostly their own stupidity.

What's the good of having mastery over cosmic balance and knowing the secrets of fate if you can't blow something up?

What we assert, very often can become our reality. To some degree, everybody can try to shape and control their fate. Everybody picks an identity.

What people commonly call Fate is, as a general rule, nothing but their own stupid and foolish conduct.

What we do not make conscious emerges later as fate.

When fate has allowed to any man more than one great gift, accident or necessity seems usually to contrive that one shall encumber and impede the other.

When a doctor arrives to attend some patient of the working class, he ought not to feel his pulse the moment he enters, as is nearly always done without regard to the circumstances of the man who lies sick; he should not remain standing while he considers what he ought to do, as though the fate of a human being were a mere trifle; rather let him condescend to sit down for awhile.

when fate is very generous with us, there is always a well into which all our dreams can tumble.

When fate throws a dagger at you, there are ways to catch it. If you catch it by the blade, you can harm yourself. But if you catch it by the handle, you can use it to help you fight through the obstacles ahead.

When good befalls a man he calls it Providence, when evil fate.

When I take up my pen, nothing can happen to me. Fate, remember that.

When I look at life I try to be as agnostic and unmetaphysical as possible. So I have to admit that, most probably, we do not have a fate. But I think that's something that draws us to novels - that the characters always have a fate. Even if it's a terrible fate, at least they have one.

When I stand and contemplate my fate and see the path along which you have led me, I reach my end, for artless I surrendered to one who is my undoing and my end.

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.

When people are determined, they can overcome fate; when the will is unified, it can mobilize energy. Enlightened people do not even let nature put them in a set mold.

When men are engaged in war and conquest, the tools of science become as dangerous as a razor in the hands of a child of three. We must not condemn man because his inventiveness and patient conquest of the forces of nature are being exploited for false and destructive purposes. Rather, we should remember that the fate of mankind hinges entirely upon man’s moral development.

When we decline to talk about what is real simply because it's uncomfortable to do so, we seal our own fate.