The laws of changeless justice bind oppressor and oppressed; and, close as sin and suffering joined we march to fate abreast.
That was how the heroine of a book would play it and Diana was still writing her own story the best heroines she'd always believed took their fate into their own hands.
The V sign is the symbol of the unconquerable will of the occupied territories, and a portent of the fate awaiting the Nazi tyranny.
Our situation on this earth seems strange. Every one of us appears here involuntarily and uninvited for a short stay, without knowing the whys and the wherefore. In our daily lives we only feel that man is here for the sake of others, for those whom we love and for many other beings whose fate is connected with our own. I am often worried at the thought that my life is based to such a large extent on the work of my fellow human beings and I am aware of my great indebtedness to them.
In a novel, the author gives the leading character intelligence and distinction. Fate goes to less trouble: mediocrities play a part in great events simply from happening to be there.
Now at this very moment I knew that the United States was in the war, up to the neck and in to the death. So we had won after all!. . . How long the war would last or in what fashion it would end no man could tell, nor did I at this moment care. . . We should not be wiped out. Our history would not come to an end. . . Hitler's fate was sealed. Mussolini's fate was sealed. As for the Japanese, they would be ground to a powder. All the rest was merely the proper application of overwhelming force.
We shun the rugged battle of fate where strength is born.
I am an American, Chicago born – Chicago, that somber city – and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted; sometimes an innocent knock, sometimes a not so innocent. But a man's character is his fate, says Heraclitus, and in the end there isn't any way to disguise the nature of the knocks by acoustical work on the door or gloving the knuckles.
Fate is a sea without a shore, and the soul is a rock that abides.
How unfair the fate which ordains that those who have the least should be always adding to the treasury of the wealthy.
There's something tragic in the fate of almost every person--it's just that the tragic is often concealed from a person by the banal surface of life. . . . A woman will complain of indigestion and not even know that what she means is that her whole life has been shattered.
If you go into a relationship expecting someone else to fill you up, you're doomed right off.
You must avoid blindness of mind by setting goals. . . . I have long contended that the person who sets goals and who strives to attain such is the master of his own fate.
If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.
However, our fates at least are social. Our courses do not diverge; but as the web of destiny is woven it is fulled, and we are cast more and more into the centre. Men naturally, though feebly, seek this alliance, and their actions faintly foretell it.
What can you ever really know of other people's souls — of their temptations, their opportunities, their struggles? One soul in the whole of creation you do know: and it is the only one whose fate is placed in your hands. If there is a God, you are, in a sense, alone with Him.
This has ever been the fate of energy in security; it takes to art and to eroticism, and then comes languor and decay.
He must needs go that the devil drives.
Who is it needs such flawless shafts as fate? What archer of his arrows is so choice, or hits the white so surely?
Objectives are not fate; they are direction. They are not commands; they are commitments. They do not determine the future; they are a means to mobilize resources and energies of the business for the making of the future.