#fate

It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art. ↗

— Margaret Oliphant

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It makes me believe in fate. In most cases, the readings where I've been really bad have usually been the ones where I got the part. ↗

— Robin Wright Penn

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Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist. ↗

— Plutarch

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I can't recall any difficulty in making the C language definition completely open - any discussion on the matter tended to mention languages whose inventors tried to keep tight control, and consequent ill fate. ↗

— Dennis Ritchie

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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#men #minds #only #own #prisoners

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

— Rick Riordan

#future #knowledge #future

A great novel is concerned primarily with the interior lives of its characters as they respond to the inconvenient narratives that fate imposes on them. Movie adaptations of these monumental fictions often fail because they become mere exercises in interior decoration. ↗

— Richard Schickel

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All the nations they had to deal with, had the same fate. ↗

— Algernon Sidney

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Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but mind; which experienced a similar fate from the hand of Mr. Hume in 1737. ↗

— Sydney Smith

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Storytelling is the only studio movie where the censorship is perfectly clear, the only studio movie with a big red box covering up a shot. I take pride in that - and, of course, in having avoided the fate of Eyes Wide Shut. ↗

— Todd Solondz

#big #box #censorship #clear #course