Fate

Famous quotes containing the word fate:

    “The stern hand of fate has scourged us to an elevation where we can see the great everlasting things which matter for a nation—the great peaks we had forgotten, of Honour, Duty, Patriotism, and, clad in glittering white, the great pinnacle of Sacrifice pointing like a rugged finger to Heaven.”
    —David Lloyd George (1863–1945)

    “In separation, deadly as poison,
    in union, brimming with nectar.
    What, did fate make my love
    out of both equally?”
    —Hla Stavhana (c. 50 A.D.)

    “We are hedged about, we think, by accident and circumstance; now we creep as in a dream, and now again we run, as if there were a fate in it, and all things thwarted or assisted.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)