| Author |
Quotes |
| Albert Camus | There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn. |
| Arthur Schopenhauer | It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards. |
| Bishop Joseph Butler | Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be; why then should we desire to be deceived? |
| Charles Dickens | He has gone to the demnition bow-wows. |
| Claudian | They are raised on high that they may be dashed to pieces with a greater fall. |
| Danish Proverb | A person must stand very tall to see their own fate. |
| Edward B Eastwick | Kabira wept when he beheld the millstone roll, Of that which passes 'twixt the stones, nought goes forth whole. - Edward B. Eastwick, |
| Edwin Arnold | Yet who shall shut out Fate? |
| Elizabeth Bowen | Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat. |
| Elizabeth E Bowen | Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat. |
| Henri Frederic Amiel | Destiny has two ways of crushing us -- by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them. |
| Ira Frederick Aldridge | The bow is bent, the arrow flies, The winged shaft of fate. |
| James Beattie | Let those deplore their doom, Whose hope still grovels in this dark sojourn: But lofty souls, who look beyond the tomb, Can smile at Fate, and wonder how they mourn. |
| John Dryden | All human things are subject to decay, And when fate summons, monarchs must obey. |
| Joseph Addison | The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, And heavily in clouds brings on the day, The great, the important day, big with the fate Of Cato, and of Rome. |
| Joseph Joubert | Chance generally favors the prudent. |
| Lord Byron | Tempted fate will leave the loftiest star. |
| Mary Renault | Go with your fate, but not beyond. Beyond leads to dark places. |
| Mathurin Regnier | Every one is the architect of his own fortune. |
| Ovid | Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour. |
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