I believe there's fate, and then you have personal choice. I believe we have the ability to change our fate.
I don't think anyone is qualified to answer questions of eternal fate definitively, much less pinpoint it to a given day.
Many intellectuals feel themselves to be Supermen who are spokesmen for the people. But in my opinion, they're to be pitied. Under Mao's dictatorship, these poor sheep suffered the same fate as everyone else.
Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!
We have become makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.
The works of present life are more important that the whole and entire reliance on wholesale blind fate.
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.
I see publishers bemoaning their fate and saying that this is the end of publishing. No! Publishers will recreate themselves. Some of that comes from my experience as a print publisher.
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.
Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
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.
I don't believe in providence and fate, as a technologist I am used to reckoning with the formulae of probability.
History is rife with examples of governments taking actions to 'protect' their citizens from harm by controlling access to information and inhibiting freedom of expression and other freedoms outlined in The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. We must make sure, collectively, that the Internet avoids a similar fate.
After Watergate, America was a ship without a rudder. Vietnam was left to its own devices, drifting along towards its fate.
We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.
I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me.
Suffer not thy wrongs to shroud thy fate, But turn, my soul, to blessings which remain.
Let's summon the courage to insist on a minimal level of civic knowledge for the citizens empowered to decide our fate.
It is the customary fate of new truths, to begin as heresies, and to end as superstitions.
History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
