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Fate Quotes - Page 22

Subtle and insubstantial, the expert leaves no trace; divinely mysterious, he is inaudible. Thus he is master of his enemy's fate.

"The Art of War". Chapter VI: Weaknesses and Strengths. Translated by Chow-Hou Wee, 2003.

Casting sometimes is fate and destiny more than skill and talent, from a director's point of view.

"Steven Spielberg and Quint have an epic chat all about JAWS as it approaches its 36th Anniversary!". Interview with Quint, www.aintitcool.com. June 6, 2011.

Of all the griefs that harass the distress'd, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest; Fate never wounds more deep the generous heart, Than when a blockhead's insult points the dart.

Samuel Johnson, Thomas Parnell, Thomas Gray, Tobias Smollett, George Gilfillan (1855). “The Poetical Works of Johnson: Parnell, Gray, and Smollett, with Memoirs, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes”, p.22

Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing.

Rick Riordan (2006). “The lightning thief”

Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks he is free.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1859). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: The conduct of life”, p.23

I want to seize fate by the throat.

Letter to F.G. Wegeler, November 16, 1801.

While all bodies share the same fate, all voices do not.

"Behind My Eyes: Poems". Book by Li-Young Lee, 2008.

It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.

Joseph Conrad (1915). “Wisdom and Beauty from Conrad: Selected and Arranged by M. Harriet M. Capes”

Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.

J.K. Rowling (2015). “Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination”, p.29, Hachette UK