In July, 1892, fate suddenly granted me financial independence.
Carl Spitteler

In my view, the humanity of our world can be measured against the fate of Africa.
Horst Koehler

In my writing with Extreme, there are heavy themes. The cover photo has me with a gun to my neck. I am not advocating suicide. I am taking the philosophy that man is the measure of his own fate.
Gary Cherone

In the beds which the piety of the public has prepared on every side, stricken men await the verdict of fate.
Georges Duhamel

In the first instance, therefore, global terrorism created a kind of global community sharing a common fate, something we had previously considered impossible.
Ulrich Beck

It goes without saying that the Jewish people can have no other goal than Palestine and that, whatever the fate of the proposition may be, our attitude toward the land of our fathers is and shall remain unchangeable.
Theodor Herzl

It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art.
Margaret Oliphant

It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.
E. M. Forster

It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active.
John Philpot Curran

It is the customary fate of new truths, to begin as heresies, and to end as superstitions.
Thomas Huxley

It is the fate of operating systems to become free.
Neal Stephenson

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.
Joseph Conrad

It is usually more important how a man meets his fate than what it is.
Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt

It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.
Henry David Thoreau

It makes me believe in fate. In most cases, the readings where I've been really bad have usually been the ones where I got the part.
Robin Wright Penn

It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll; I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.
William Ernest Henley

It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.
Bertrand Russell

It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity.
William Samuel Johnson

It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe.
Henry James