Fate

Famous quotes containing the word fate:

    “My fate cries out,
    And makes each petty artery in this body
    As hardy as the Nemean lion’s nerve.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “Is it impossible not to wonder why a movement which professes concern for the fate of all women has dealt so unkindly, contemptuously, so destructively, with so significant a portion of its sisterhood. Can it be that those who would reorder society perceive as the greater threat not the chauvinism of men or the pernicious attitudes of our culture, but rather the impulse to mother within women themselves?”
    —Elaine Heffner (20th century)

    ““... The state’s one function is to give.
    The bud must bloom till blowsy blown
    Its petals loosen and are strown;
    And that’s a fate it can’t evade
    Unless ‘twould rather wilt than fade.””
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)