History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our own?
Christian Lous Lange

History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
Thomas Huxley

Homelessness is the actor's fate; physical incapacity to attain what is most required and desired by such a spirit as I am a slave to.
Edwin Booth

How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.
Wilhelm von Humboldt

How unfair the fate which ordains that those who have the least should be always adding to the treasury of the wealthy.
Terence

Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.
Thomas Mann

I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
William Ernest Henley

I believe that fate is choices - it's not chance.
Wayne Newton

I can't recall any difficulty in making the C language definition completely open - any discussion on the matter tended to mention languages whose inventors tried to keep tight control, and consequent ill fate.
Dennis Ritchie

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
Buddha

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

I don't believe in fate or destiny. I believe in various degrees of hatred, paranoia, and abandonment. However much of that gets heaped upon you doesn't matter - it's only a matter of how much you can take and what it does to you.
Henry Rollins

I don't believe in providence and fate, as a technologist I am used to reckoning with the formulae of probability.
Max Frisch

I generally wade in blind and trust to fate and instinct to see me through.
Peter Straub

I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate.
Lucan

I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your ruin, and to the ruin of our children. I give you this warning that you may prepare your mind for your fate.
John Adams

I have complete artistic control, and I just do my best album every time and trust it to fate.
Susannah McCorkle

I have never seen such extreme partisanship, such bitter partisanship, and such forgetfulness of the fate of our fathers and of the Constitution.
Robert Byrd

I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above; those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love.
William Butler Yeats

I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
Novalis