#fate

It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals. ↗

The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#because #death #devour #doomed #fate

When Karim and his group heard about Saddam coming, they wanted to kill him, but fate had other ideas. ↗

— Saadi

#coming #fate #group #had #heard

When I need a word and do not find it in French, I select it from other tongues, and the reader has either to understand or translate me. Such is my fate. ↗

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

#fate #find #french #i #me

Only the closest collaborators of the Fuehrer know how difficult is the burden of this responsibility; how sorrowful are the hours during which decisions must be made which bear upon the well being and the fate of all of Germany. ↗

— Hjalmar Schacht

#being #burden #closest #collaborators #decisions

Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate. ↗

— Friedrich Schiller

#full #wisdom

To live alone is the fate of all great souls. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#fate #great #great souls #live #souls

It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#difference #fate #gives #hand #make

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God. ↗