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"I am responsible for my fate, I am the bringer of good unto myself, I am the bringer of evil. I am the Pure and Blessed One. We must reject all thoughts that assert to the contrary."
"You never have a consistent job as an actor, so you're always looking for the next thing. It's defined by the opportunities that come across your doorstep at the time. A career is totally in the hands of fate, in terms of how those opportunities arise."
"Fate decides until challenged by the fated"
"the wheel of fate crushes us all"
"The thing about fate is, are you the master of your fate, or are the stars?"
"This has ever been the fate of energy in security; it takes to art and to eroticism, and then comes languor and decay."
"Fate is a quantity very much like TV: an unstoppable narrative, written, produced and directed by somebody else."
"The fate of war is to be exalted in the morning, and low enough at night! There is but one step from triumph to ruin."
"The fate of a battle is the result of a moment, of a thought: the hostile forces advance with various combinations, they attack each other and fight for a certain time; the critical moment arrives, a mental flash decides, and the least reserve accomplishes the object."
"That which makes man the mere plaything of fate is God."
"People can't do much about the fate part, but we can certainly do a lot about the man part."
"It is obvious: if you do not accept something that assumes the form of ‘destiny,’ you not only change its ‘natural laws’ but also the laws of the enemy playing the role of fate."
"I think there is certainly luck and fate involved in any career of any kind. In show business, maybe it's even more true."
"Thou fool, what is sleep but the image of death? Fate will give an eternal rest. [Lat., Stulte, quid est somnus, gelidae nisi mortis imago? Longa quiescendi tempora fata dabunt.]"
"If, while watching the sun set on a used-car lot in Los Angeles, you are struck by the parallels between this image and the inevitable fate of humanity, do not, under any circumstances, write it down."
"Perhaps it is not-being that is the true state, and all our dream of life is inexistent; but, if so, we feel that these phrases of music, these conceptions which exist in relation to our dream, must be nothing either. We shall perish, but we have as hostages these divine captives who will follow and share our fate. And death in their company is somehow less bitter, less inglorious, perhaps even less probable."
"Because I think you're right. You can make a difference." He told me experiences were kind of like fate, and fate usually came in the form of a test. He told me fate liked to be worshiped. It liked to see us fall on out knees before it offered to help us up..." ♥"
"In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that."
"It is also the fate of leadership to be misunderstood. For historians, academics, writers and journalists to reflect great lives according to their own subjective canon."
"Love only what befalls you and is spun for you by fate."
