Fate pulls you in different directions.
Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate.
A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
By an irony of fate, my first employment was as a draughtsman. I hated drawing; it was for me the very worst of annoyances. Fortunately, it was not long before I secured the position I sought, that of chief electrician to the telephone company.
I just reached the point where plot-driven novels don't hold my interest because I don't care about the fate of characters anymore - whether Emily marries Tom or not, that kind of thing.
It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe.
I'm eternally grateful to fate and the citizens of Russia that they've trusted me to be the head of the Russian government.
Sometimes it seems that the fate of the world is decided entirely in the ether of electronic communications and corporate backroom deals.
The euro is our common fate, and Europe is our common future.
It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.
People make their own fates, and if enough of us make our fate to be space explorers, perhaps we can actually get some space exploration done.
Personally, I would say the 'master' of this whole thing is fate... Whoever is on the playing field is fair game, and it's up to them to avoid being used.
There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.
What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.
Total oblivion is the fate of almost everything in this world. I'm very likely to suffer that same fate; my work will probably not be remembered, and if any of it is, if any of those novels is fated to be one of those novels that is still being read 50 or 100 years after it was written, I've probably already written it.
I'm an action player. I like to be aggressive. I don't like to be on the run. I like to feel like I have the fates in my hands and that through my skill or lack thereof I control my fate.
I was 9 when I wrote 'Fate Stay with Me.' It was this fictional song about romance gone wrong.
The disaster in the Gulf was no accident. It was the result of years of oil money buying off politicians to lead to an unregulated and ill focused addiction to oil and drilling. The doomed fate of the local fisherman and the environment were foretold in the infamous chants of 'Drill, Baby, Drill.'
