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Though we hear various reports of his existence we can never find the young wizard who is able so they say to graft the soul of a girl to the soul of her lover so that not even the sharp scissors of the Fates can ever sever them apart. -- Harry Crosby
As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully. -- Walter Scott
The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won't! -- Joseph Campbell
The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag. -- Seneca the Younger
The Fates guide the person who accepts them and hinder the person who resists them. -- Cleanthes
Use him wisely. Few have been given such a weapon by the gods or Fates before. -- Janet Morris
The Fates, like an absent-minded printer, seldom allow a single line to stand perfect and unmarred. -- George Santayana
The Fates but only spin the coarser clue; The finest of the wool is left for you. -- John Dryden
The Fates are just: they give us but our own; Nemesis ripens what our hands have sown. -- John Greenleaf Whittier
The Fates are here because of supernal anger, celestial imbalance, and arrogance of men and gods that must be curbed. -- Janet Morris
The earth has Fates all her own. The earth has purpose. And we can only partially know what that purpose is. -- Jane Caputi
See how the Fates their gifts allot, For A is happy-B is not. Yet B is worthy, I dare say, Of more prosperity than A. -- W.S. Gilbert
He struggled to breathe through the agony in his chest. The Fates were still mocking him. It must be a boring day for them up on Olympus. -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Why is it we are always the targets of the angry Fates? Twice as many men of ours met harm as did theirs, since we've come here. -- Janet Morris
I guess the sacrifice of my dignity is the only thing that will save us now. The things I endure for love. The Fates laugh at my torment. -- Julie Kagawa
This whole act's immutably decreed. 'Twas rehearsed by thee and me a billion years before this ocean rolled. Fool! I am the Fates' lieutenant; I act under orders. -- Herman Melville
I tried very hard. But I can't help it. The Fates are cruel. They sent you to me, my brave one, knowing that you would break my heart. -- Rick Riordan
This Day, whate'er the Fates decree; Shall still be kept with Joy by me: This Day then, let us not be told, That you are sick, and I grown old -- Jonathan Swift
In our society mothers take the place elsewhere occupied by the Fates, the System, Negroes, Communism or Reactionary Imperialist Plots; mothers go on getting blamed until they're eighty, but shouldn't take it personally. -- Katharine Whitehorn
Maybe, if I had lied all those years ago, my life could have followed a very different path. But as it is I faithfully follow the long, long thread the Fates have woven for me. -- Rosie Pugh
Akhlys lunged at Percy, and for a split second he thought: Well, hey, I'm just smoke. She can't touch me, right? He imagined the Fates up in Olympus, laughing at his wishful thinking: LOL, NOOB! -- Rick Riordan
Come in, Bean. Come in Julian Delphiki, longed-for child of good and loving parents. Come in, kidnapped child, hostage of fate. Come and talk to the Fates, who are playing such clever little games with your life. -- Orson Scott Card
It's kind of strange...All these so-called myths and fables. Everyone seems to have the same ones. They cross cultures and continents. Everyone has their own versions of unicorns, witches, even the Fates. Now we know why. Because they're real. -- Maurissa Guibord
Each of us must rededicate ourselves to serving the common good. We are a community. Our individual Fates are linked; our futures intertwined; and if we act in that knowledge and in that spirit together, as the Bible says: "We can move mountains." -- Jimmy Carter
So you're telling me that right now I'm responsible for Acheron's beloved pet and the favorite sister of the Fates? (Zarek) Tell Fang-boy I'm not a pet. If he doesn't take a nicer tone to me, he's going to be really sorry. (Simi) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
[Percy] kept hoping things would get better for Annabeth and him, but their lives just got more dangerous, as if the Three Fates were up there spinning their futures with barbed wire instead of thread just to see how much two demigods could tolerate. -- Rick Riordan
Are you mad? (Artemis) Yes, I am. Mad at this world where we are nothing to the gods. Mad at the Fates who put us here for no purpose except to toy with us for their petty amusement. I wish all of the gods were dead and gone. (Acheron) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
People's fates are simplified by their names. -- Elias Canetti
Wherever the fates lead us let us follow. -- Virgil
They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates. -- D. H. Lawrence
I really believe that we have the power to manifest our own fates. -- Michael Trucco
Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates. -- J. K. Rowling
Today, as never before, the fates of men are so intimately linked to one another that a disaster for one is a disaster for everybody. -- Natalia Ginzburg
I can only say that one's individual situation is more real and important to oneself than the devastations of fates and empires especially when they do not vitally affect oneself. -- Isaac Rosenberg
The reason that I keep writing is that all my most powerful messages about the fates of wild places that I care about need to have words as well as images. -- Galen Rowell
It is past time for women to take their rightful place, side by side with men, in the rooms where the fates of peoples, where their children's and grandchildren's fates, are decided. -- Hillary Clinton
The futures and ultimate fates of the characters in The Snow Queen are profoundly changed by choices made in their own minds or hearts, as well as choices unexpectedly forced on them by things beyond their control. -- Joan D. Vinge
When you put on the suits, when you pretend you're honest and you're robbing at a far higher level, these guys deserve to... well, to be in my novels, and I have special fates reserved for them. -- Carl Hiaasen
The Browning love story? It is an ideal, all too rare, and yet I hardly think it strange. It would have been far stranger had the fates allowed those two brilliant passionate souls to beat themselves out in silence. -- Marie Corelli
Our fates are in the hands of An Almighty God, to whom I can with pleasure confide my own; he can save us, or destroy us; his Councils are fixed and cannot be disappointed, and all his designs will be Accomplished. -- Abraham Clark
I'm an action player. I like to be aggressive. I don't like to be on the run. I like to feel like I have the fates in my hands and that through my skill or lack thereof I control my fate. -- Eugene Jarvis
Robopocalypse' explores the intertwined fates of regular people who face a future filled with murderous machines. It follows them as humanity foments the robot uprising, fails to recognize the coming storm, and then is rocked to the core by methodical, crippling attacks. -- Daniel H. Wilson
God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection. -- Alfred Adler
We call the fates of the Titanic and the Concordia - as well as those of the space shuttles Challenger and Columbia - 'accidents.' Foreseeing such undesirable events is what engineers are expected to do. However, design trade-offs leave technological systems open to failings once predicted, but later forgotten. -- Henry Petroski
Astrologers that future fates foreshow. -- Alexander Pope
Like books, artists have their fates. -- Norbert Lynton
Some necrophobes earn their own fates. -- David S.E. Zapanta
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People's fates are simplified by their names -- Elias Canetti
As children grow, they gravitate to their fates. -- Mitch Albom
Our individual fates are linked our futures intertwined -- Jimmy Carter
The leader is always alone before bad fates. -- Charles de Gaulle
We never conceive the greatness of our fates. -- Henry David Thoreau
The fates have given mankind a patient soul. -- Homer
Our wills and fates do so contrary run. -- William Shakespeare
Even the gods couldn't devise a fates so twisted. -- Rick Riordan
The fates lead the willing, and drag the unwilling. -- Seneca the Younger
But fates are connected in ways we don't understand. -- Mitch Albom
Men at some time are masters of their fates... -- William Shakespeare
Secret fates Guide our states Both in mirth and mourning. -- Thomas Campion
Some fates are guaranteed, no matter who tries to intervene. -- Alice Hoffman
The fates lead him who will; him who won't they drag. -- Joseph Campbell
We hasten to alienate the very fates we intended to woo. -- Vladimir Nabokov
Who has passed by the fates of disillusion has died twice. -- Ouida
Whatever happens, it happens because we choose for it. We decide our fates. -- Spartacus
Men make their own fates - it's personal, not a matter for debate. -- Janet Morris
A dead afternoon in a dark bar was not the worst of fates. -- Don DeLillo
We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, never to be undone. -- William James
From no place can you exclude the fates. [Lat., Nullo fata loco possis excludere.] -- Martial
Poems have their own fates, like children. You have only to give birth to them. -- Andrei Voznesensky
Jove lifts the golden balances that show The fates of mortal men, and things below. -- Homer
Today's world is of public opinion and the fates of nations are determined through its pressure. -- Osama bin Laden
What fates impose, that men must needs abide; it boots not to resist both wind and tide. -- William Shakespeare
I can imagine few worse fates than walking around for the rest of one's life wearing a typo. -- Anne Fadiman
Providence has given human wisdom the choice between two fates: either hope and agitation, or hopelessness and calm. -- Yevgeny Baratynsky
We are all subject to the fates. But we must act as if we are not, or die of despair. -- Philip Pullman
Three were the fates. Poverty that chains; gray drudgery that grinds the hope away, and gaping ignorance that starves the soul. -- Edwin Markham
We are our own fates.- Our deeds are our own doomsmen.- Man's life was made not for creeds but actions. -- Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
if the right man does not come along, there are many fates far worse. One is to have the wrong man come along. -- Letitia Baldrige
One cannot properly appreciate the human realities so long as one labors under the adolescent delusion that people get the fates they deserve. -- Nicholas Rescher
While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned. -- Seneca the Younger
We find our calling or it finds us, and it's a sin against the fates not to use your talent when you have it. -- Erica Jong
Our wills and fates do so contrary run, That our devices still are overthrown; Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own. -- William Shakespeare
Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings. -- William Shakespeare
Because change creates opportunity, when we do it through purpose and awareness, we are working with the fates, and in turn they smile upon us. -- Lawren Leo
I have come to know well that fates are fickle in the business of English football. And I feel that I have pushed mine well past the limit. -- Randy Lerner
Gods play games with the fates of men. But first they have to get all the pieces on the board and look all over the place for the dice. -- Terry Pratchett
I can only say that one's individual situation is more real and important to oneself than the devastations of fates and empires especially when they do not vitally affect oneself -- Isaac Rosenberg
The reason that I keep writing is that all my most powerful messages about the fates of wild places that I care about need to have words as well as images -- Galen
You can be as mad as a mad dog at the way things went, you can curse the fates, but when it comes to the end, you have to let go. -- Eric Roth
We cannot rest while Brazilians are going hungry, while families are living in the streets, while poor children are abandoned to their own fates and while crack and crack dens rule. -- Dilma Rousseff
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We all know people who have worse fates. What do I have to complain about for Christ's sake? I have a beautiful wife and kids, and all this music, kids are paying my bills. -- Alan Sparhawk
Give up the dream that Love may trick the fates To live again somewhere beyond the gleam Of dying stars, or shatter the strong gates Some god has builded high; give up the dream. -- Don Marquis
Where shall the lover rest, Whom the fates sever From his true maiden's breast, Parted for ever? Where, through groves deep and high, Sounds the far billow, Where early violets die, Under the willow. -- Walter Scott
However far apart we pull two entagled particles, they remain 'connected' through their common wavelength function. Their fates remain intertwined until a measurement is made on one of them, collapsing their common wavelength function. -- Jim Al-Khalili
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Humanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men's fates are in their own hands - a faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith. -- John Galsworthy
Officially there are no fates worse than death. Unofficially, there is a profusion of such fates. For some people, just living with the thought that they will die is a fate worse than death itself. -- Thomas Ligotti
We fight in honourable fashion for the good of mankind; fearless of the future, unheeding of our individual fates, with unflinching hearts and undimmed eyes; we stand at Armageddon, and we battle for the Lord -- Theodore Roosevelt

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