Fate

Famous quotes containing the word fate:

    ... fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.
    Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)

    It has come to this, that the friends of liberty, the friends of the slave, have shuddered when they have understood that his fate was left to the legal tribunals of the country to be decided. Free men have no faith that justice will be awarded in such a case.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    Heaven forbids that man should know
    What change tomorrow’s fate may bring.
    Publius Papinius Statius (c. 40–96)