Destiny and Fate

"We must always take risks. That is our destiny."

George Eliot

Destiny and Fate

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Destiny is a lie. Destiny is justification for atrocity. It is the means by which murderers armour themselves against reprimand. It is a word intended to stand in place of ethics, denying all moral context."

Steven Erikson

Destiny and Fate

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil; all committed, for our safety, to its security and peace; preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft."

Adlai E. Stevenson II

Destiny and Fate

Human

Rating: 8.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"The lottery: a tax on people who flunked math."

Monique Lloyd

Destiny and Fate

Richness and Money

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Opportunity knocks only once."

Catalan Proverbs

Courage and Fear

Destiny and Fate

Success and Fame

Rating: 6.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Destiny is for people who are too lazy to create alternate timelines."

Richard Stevens III "Diesel Sweeties"

Destiny and Fate

Work and Laziness

Rating: 4.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Man may be the captain of his fate, but is also the victim of his blood sugar."

Oakley, Wilfrid G

Destiny and Fate

Human

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error."

Bulwer-Lytton-Edward

Defeates and Mistakes

Destiny and Fate

Rating: 3.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a terrible warning."

Catherine Aird

Destiny and Fate

Good and Evil

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 7.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be."

Lao-tse

Destiny and Fate

Human

Success and Fame

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny."

Clive Staples Lewis

Destiny and Fate

Various

Rating: 9.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Control your own destiny or someone else will."

Jack Welch

Destiny and Fate

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow."

William McFee

Destiny and Fate

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"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"

Art and Culture

Destiny and Fate

Rating: 1.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

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

J. K. Rowling

Destiny and Fate

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Martin Goldsmith

Destiny and Fate

Life and Death

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows."

William Shakespeare "The Tempest"

Destiny and Fate

Various

Rating: 4.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Harriet Rosenstein

Destiny and Fate

Rating: 5.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance."

Aeschylus "The Libation Bearers"

Destiny and Fate

Justice

Rating: 5.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much."

Amelia E. Barr "The Belle of Bolling Green"

Destiny and Fate

Love

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

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

Dag Hammarskjöld "Markings"

Destiny and Fate

Rating: 5.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Natalie Clifford Barney

Destiny and Fate

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will."

Jawaharlal Nehru

Destiny and Fate

Life and Death

Sports

Rating: 6.57 (Number of Voters: 7)

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

Jean Nidetch

Destiny and Fate

Rating: 3.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Cause and effect, the chancellors of God."

Ralph Waldo Emerson "Essays"

Destiny and Fate

Rating: 2.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Chance is only the measure of our ignorance."

Henri Poincare "The Foundations of Science"

Destiny and Fate

Knowledge, Ignorance

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Paul Harvey

Destiny and Fate

Rating: 6.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Chinese Proverbs

Destiny and Fate

Rating: 9.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

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

Paul Theroux

Destiny and Fate

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 1.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Sometimes the Lord calms the storm. Sometimes He lets the storm rage and calms His child."

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Destiny and Fate

God and Religion

Rating: 2.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Friedrich von Schiller

Destiny and Fate

Rating: 5.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Doris Lessing

Destiny and Fate

Human

Rating: 4.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Destiny is what we work toward. The future doesn't exist yet. Fate is for losers."

Douglas Coupland "Girlfriend in a Coma"

Destiny and Fate

Time and Passing

Rating: 3.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Friedrich von Schiller "Wallenstein"

Destiny and Fate

Love

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny."

Kin Hubbard

Defeates and Mistakes

Destiny and Fate

Rating: 2.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Wilhelm von Humboldt

Destiny and Fate

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"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

Destiny and Fate

Rating: 5.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Don't let time take control of your destiny. Let your destiny take control of your time."

Ulrick Ricardo Milord

Destiny and Fate

Time and Passing

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"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"

Destiny and Fate

Rating: 4.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Lidia Jasinska

Beauty and Ugliness

Destiny and Fate

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"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

Destiny and Fate

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Benjamin Disraeli

Destiny and Fate

Rating: 2.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"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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Destiny and Fate

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

William Somerset Maugham

Destiny and Fate

Richness and Money

Rating: 6.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"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

Destiny and Fate

Rating: 3.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

François de La Rochefoucauld

Destiny and Fate

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

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Destiny and Fate

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

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Destiny and Fate

Rating: 4.67 (Number of Voters: 3)