Quotations About / On: FATE

  • 41.
    It is the fate of heroines to be laughed at.
    (Jane O'Reilly, U.S. feminist and humorist. The Girl I Left Behind, ch. 7 (1980).)
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  • 42.
    I don't believe in providence and fate, as a technologist I am used to reckoning with the formulae of probability.
    (Max Frisch (1911-1991), Swiss author, critic. Originally published as Homo faberEin Bericht, Suhrkamp (1957). Walter Faber, in Homo FaberA Report, p. 23, trans. by Michael Bullock (1977), Abelard-Schuman (1959). Describes the quintessential conviction of homo faber, modern man as technologist.)
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  • 43.
    It is the customary fate of new truths, to begin as heresies, and to end as superstitions.
    (Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895), British biologist. "The Coming of Age of The Origin of Species," Science and Culture (1881).)
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  • 44.
    Heaven forbids that man should know
    What change tomorrow's fate may bring.
    (Publius Papinius Statius (c. 40-96), Roman poet. Thebais, 3. 562.)
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  • 45.
    It seems our fate to be incorrect (look where we live, for example), and in our incorrectness stand.
    (Alice Walker (b. 1944), U.S. author, critic. repr. In "From an Interview," In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens (1983). Interview in Interviews with Black Writers, ed. John O'Brien (1973).)
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  • 46.
    History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
    (Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-95), British biologist and educator. Reflection #67, Aphorisms and Reflections, selected by Henrietta A. Huxley, Macmillan (London, 1907).)
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  • 47.
    To die for one's country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death.
    (Pierre Corneille (1606-1684), French playwright. Horace, in Horace, act 2, sc. 3 (1641).)
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  • 48.
    It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe.
    (Henry James (1843-1916), U.S. author. Letter, February 4, 1872, to editor Charles Eliot Norton. Henry James Letters, vol. 1, ed. Leon Edel (1974).)
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  • 49.
    The fate of the State decides theirs: clauses of treaties determine their affections.
    (Pierre Corneille (1606-1684), French playwright. Rodogune, in Rodogune, act 3, sc. 4 (1644). Rodogune speaks on kings and royal marriages.)
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  • 50.
    All human things are subject to decay,
    And when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
    (John Dryden (1631-1700), British poet, dramatist, critic. Mac Flecknoe, l. 1-2 (1682).)
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