"And over your unconsecrated head you'll hear the howling wolves lament their fate and yours the livelong year;"

"Nothing is as tedious as the limping days, When snowdrifts yearly cover all the ways, And ennui, sour fruit of incurious gloom, Assumes control of fate’s immortal loom"

"To me it is the irony of fate,” she said. “The way they come here. Those moths could fly anywhere. Yet they keep hanging around the windows of this house."

"The NBA's a Fortune 500 company. That's how you look at it. And all the other Fortune 500 companies out there in the world, you don't see their CEOs and COOs going to work with white tees and baggy clothes and stuff like that. So I have to take that same approach."

"When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade."

"I believe in fate and what's meant to be mine will be mine, and if it's not in my lap, then it's not mine."

"As we reflect back upon the tragic loss of Challenger and her brave crew of heroes who were aboard that fateful day, I am reminded that they truly represented the best of us, as they climbed aloft on a plume of propellant gasses, reaching for the stars, to inspire us who were Earthbound."

"Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all."

"Upon the conduct of each determines the fate of all"

"Remember, upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all."

"Upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all."

It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.

Indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not.

“The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor.”

“Fate is not in man but around him.”

The fate of the minimum wage illustrates what has been happening. Through the periods of high and egalitarian growth in the ‘50s and ‘60s, the minimum wage—which sets a floor for other wages—tracked productivity. That ended with the onset of neoliberal doctrine. Since then, the minimum wage has stagnated (in real value). Had it continued as before, it would probably be close to $20 per hour. Today, it is considered a political revolution to raise it to $15.” 

“The man deserved his fate, deny it who can; yes, but the fate did not deserve the man.” 

In the first instance, therefore, global terrorism created a kind of global community sharing a common fate, something we had previously considered impossible.

The fate of the Empire rests on this enterprise. Every man must devote himself totally to the task in hand.

“A man's character is his fate.” 

“I don’t believe in fate.”

“In the words of so many daughters who don’t yet know that a female fate is not a personal fault, I told myself: I’m not going to be anything like my mother.” 

“Now that being on the road was my choice, not my fate, I lost the melancholy feeling of 'everybody has a home but me'. I could leave—because I could return. I could return—because I knew adventure lay just beyond an open door. Instead of 'either/or', I discovered a whole world of 'and'.” 

The notion of fate and destiny is a very Greek concept. Working in the theater you do think a lot about that, because as a storyteller you do think, 'At what point was this always going to happen and what part have I got a hand in being able to change things?'