All the asylum clothing is made by the patients, but sewing does not employ one's mind. After several months' confinement the thoughts of the busy world grow faint, and all the poor prisoners can do is to sit and ponder over their hopeless fate.
There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learned to separate them.
Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time they have left.
In the first instance, therefore, global terrorism created a kind of global community sharing a common fate, something we had previously considered impossible.
A nation is a totality of men united through community of fate into a community of character.
Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.
Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!
I think quite often a fate worse than death is life - for lots of people.
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
I'm a very big believer in fate.
I truly, truly believe that I was going in that direction and all of a sudden fate took me and put me here. It's like something else has other plans for me.
But since day one, we've always been kinda up against it. So at the end, it's not surprising that we were kind of led along for so many months and didn't know what the fate of the show was gonna be. It was... in a weird way, just kind of that was the way it's always been.
Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks.
Many other countries in this world are in a difficult situation, and all the Thai people are probably worried about the fate of Thailand: whether the country would survive or not.
Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand it.