Fate

Famous quotes containing the word fate:

    “Sternly, remorselessly, fate guides each of us; only at the beginning, when we’re absorbed in details, in all sorts of nonsense, in ourselves, are we unaware of its harsh hand.”
    —Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818–1883)

    “Such is the fate of simple Bard,
    On life’s rough ocean luckless starr’d:”
    —Robert Burns (1759–1796)

    “This generation is very sure to plant corn and beans each new year precisely as the Indians did centuries ago and taught the first settlers to do, as if there were a fate in it.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)