Women do not find it difficult nowadays to behave like men, but they often find it extremely difficult to behave like gentlemen.
Sir Compton Mackenzie
1. "Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows."
William Shakespeare, "The Tempest"
Other categories: Various
2. "Destiny is something men select; women achieve it only by default or stupendous suffering."
Harriet Rosenstein
3. "The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance."
Aeschylus, "The Libation Bearers"
Other categories: Justice
4. "The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much."
Amelia E. Barr, "The Belle of Bolling Green"
Other categories: Love
5. "We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours."
Dag Hammarskjöld, "Markings"
6. "Fatalism is the lazy man’s way of accepting the evitable."
Natalie Clifford Barney
7. "Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will."
Jawaharial Nehru
Other categories: Life and Death
8. "It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny."
Jean Nidetch
9. "Cause and effect, the chancellors of God."
Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Essays"
10. "Chance is only the measure of our ignorance."
Henri Poincare, "The Foundations of Science"
Other categories: Knowledge, Ignorance
11. "If there is a 50-50 chance that something can go wrong, then 9 times out of 10 it will."
Paul Harvey
12. "One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it."
Chinese proverb
13. "Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us."
Paul Theroux
Other categories: Reality and Imagination
14. "Sometimes the Lord calms the storm. Sometimes He lets the storm rage and calms His child."
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Other categories: God and Religion
15. "There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny."
Friedrich von Schiller
16. "Man - who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!"
Doris Lessing
Other categories: Human
17. "Destiny is what we work toward. The future doesn't exist yet. Fate is for losers."
Douglas Coupland, "Girlfriend in a Coma"
Other categories: Time and Passing
18. "The dictates of the heart are the voice of fate."
Friedrich von Schiller, "Wallenstein"
Other categories: Love
19. "Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny."
Kin Hubbard
Other categories: Defeates and Mistakes
20. "How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is."
Wilhelm von Humboldt
21. "We used to think our fate was in our stars. Now we know, in large measure, our fate is in our genes. "
James D. Watson
22. "Don't let time take control of your destiny. Let your destiny take control of your time."
Ulrick Ricardo Milord
Other categories: Time and Passing
23. "We may become the makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets."
Karl Popper, "The Open Society and Its Enemies"
24. "You can't escape destiny if it has beautiful eyes."
Lidia Jasinska
Other categories: Beauty and Ugliness
25. "It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time."
Winston Churchill
26. "A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance."
Benjamin Disraeli
27. "To say that my fate is not attached to your fate is like saying "Your side of the boat is sinking.""
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28. "Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets."
William Somerset Maugham
Other categories: Richness and Money
29. "Every man is working out his destiny in his own way and nobody can be of any help except by being kind, generous, and patient."
Henry Miller
30. "In all lives, there is a date where destiny forks either towards catastrophe or towards success."
François de La Rochefoucauld
31. "There is a fine line between coincidence and fate."
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32. "Fate is only for those unable to control their own futures."
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33. "We must believe in free will - we have no choice."
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Other categories: Freedom and Servitude
34. "I do not believe in a fate that will fall on us no matter what we do. I do believe in a fate that will fall on us if we do nothing."
Ronald Reagan
Other categories: Work and Laziness
35. "Let us give Nature a chance; she knows her business better than we do."
Michel de Montaigne
Other categories: Nature and Animals
36. "The grave is still the best shelter against the storms of destiny."
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Other categories: Life and Death
37. "The most noble fate a man can endure is to place his own mortal body between his loved home and the war's desolation."
Robert A. Heinlein, "Starship Troopers"
Other categories: Patriotism
38. "Whatever limits us we call Fate."
George Eliot, "The Conduct of Life"
39. "Every man has his own destiny: The only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him."
Henry Miller
40. "I don't want to, but I have to."
Lech Walesa
2007, collected and compiled by Kazimierz Matan
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