I have a Woody Allen Jewish attitude to life: that it’s all going to be disastrous. That it hasn’t all been that way is simply down to some random quirk of fate. – Antony Sher
Because characters are your creations, you are the one who ultimately gets to decide their fate. – Alexandra Adornetto
Your life moves in patterns toward things, and things that we achieve finally are part of this mosaic. I just think that we create our own fate. – Arne Glimcher
Fate is a sempiternal and unchangeable series and chain of things, rolling and unraveling itself through eternal sequences of cause and effect, of which it is composed and compounded. – Chrysippus
The gene ‘klotho’ was named after the Greek Fate purported to spin the thread of life, because it contributes to longevity. – Craig Venter
Radio Shack is meeting the fate of many other stores that were wildly popular in the twentieth century, including record stores, comic book stores, bookstores and video stores. – Annalee Newitz
If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way. – Anais Nin
The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off. – Benito Mussolini
If you take risks and face your fate with dignity, there is nothing you can do that makes you small; if you don’t take risks, there is nothing you can do that makes you grand, nothing. – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate… but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins. – Franz Kafka
There are people who recall my father as a saint and a monster. I’m quite sure I will share the same fate. – Franz Wright
When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren’t smart enough to get out of jury duty. – Norm Crosby
What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate. – Donald Trump
That’s Anil’s path. She grows up in Sri Lanka, goes and gets educated abroad, and through fate or chance gets brought back by the Human Rights Commission to investigate war crimes. – Michael Ondaatje
A common soldier will make an empire, but he will eventually meet his fate and be condemned to the Great Rock. – Nostradamus
History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our own? – Christian Lous Lange
There is nothing in your background that inherently holds you back or means you can’t achieve what others can achieve. You are the master of your own fate, and if you work hard, you can do what you want. – Nicola Sturgeon