Something like trying to protect yourself all the time, things like trying to outwit fate. Those things can be the worst thing you can do for yourself.
I don't believe in providence and fate, as a technologist I am used to reckoning with the formulae of probability.
I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.
Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.
It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.
Have any of our friends got off the Island with their families, or what must they submit to? Despotism or destruction, I fear, is their fate.
Fate is written in the face.
We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.
Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description.
Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn't want me to be too famous too young.
Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.
Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate.
So I constantly play women who are damaged and out of touch, who are seeking without knowing, or knowing without the skills to transform their lives. But then, that's really the fate of many women today.
In the beds which the piety of the public has prepared on every side, stricken men await the verdict of fate.