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Category: Destiny and Fate

1. "A poet is a combination of an instrument and a human being in one person, with the former gradually taking over the latter. The sensation of this takeover is responsible for timbre; the realization of it, for destiny."

Iosip Aleksandrovich Brodsky, "Less Than One: Selected Essays"

Other categories: Art and Culture

2. "Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences."

J. K. Rowling

3. "That's life. Whichever way you turn, fate sticks out a foot to trip you."

Martin Goldsmith

Other categories: Life and Death

4. "Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows."

William Shakespeare, "The Tempest"

Other categories: Various

5. "Destiny is something men select; women achieve it only by default or stupendous suffering."

Harriet Rosenstein

6. "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

7. "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

8. "We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours."

Dag Hammarskjöld, "Markings"

9. "Fatalism is the lazy man’s way of accepting the evitable."

Natalie Clifford Barney

10. "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

11. "It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny."

Jean Nidetch

12. "Cause and effect, the chancellors of God."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Essays"

13. "Chance is only the measure of our ignorance."

Henri Poincare, "The Foundations of Science"

Other categories: Knowledge, Ignorance

14. "If there is a 50-50 chance that something can go wrong, then 9 times out of 10 it will."

Paul Harvey

15. "One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it."

Chinese proverb

16. "Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us."

Paul Theroux

Other categories: Reality and Imagination

17. "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

18. "There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny."

Friedrich von Schiller

19. "Man - who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!"

Doris Lessing

Other categories: Human

20. "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

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21. "The dictates of the heart are the voice of fate."

Friedrich von Schiller, "Wallenstein"

Other categories: Love

22. "Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny."

Kin Hubbard

Other categories: Defeates and Mistakes

23. "How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is."

Wilhelm von Humboldt

24. "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

25. "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

26. "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"

27. "You can't escape destiny if it has beautiful eyes."

Lidia Jasinska

Other categories: Beauty and Ugliness

28. "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

29. "A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance."

Benjamin Disraeli

30. "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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31. "Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets."

William Somerset Maugham

Other categories: Richness and Money

32. "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

33. "In all lives, there is a date where destiny forks either towards catastrophe or towards success."

François de La Rochefoucauld

34. "There is a fine line between coincidence and fate."

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35. "Fate is only for those unable to control their own futures."

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36. "We must believe in free will - we have no choice."

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Other categories: Freedom and Servitude

37. "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

38. "Let us give Nature a chance; she knows her business better than we do."

Michel de Montaigne

Other categories: Nature and Animals

39. "The grave is still the best shelter against the storms of destiny."

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Other categories: Life and Death

40. "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

41. "Whatever limits us we call Fate."

George Eliot, "The Conduct of Life"

42. "Every man has his own destiny: The only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him."

Henry Miller

43. "I don't want to, but I have to."

Lech Walesa


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