„When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make lemonade.“

„Just let your hand drop; and let fate decide for you.“

—  Chuck Palahniuk, libro Asfixia

Choke

„The only way I can pay back for what fate and society have handed me is to try, in minor totally useless ways, to make an angry sound against injustice.“

—  Martha Gellhorn journalist from the United States 1908 - 1998

Letter as quoted in "Gellhorn: A Twentieth Century Life" (2003) written by Caroline Moorehead, pg. 142.

„Man is perishable. That may be; but let us perish resisting, and if it is nothingness that awaits us, do not let us so act that it shall be a just fate.“

—  Miguel de Unamuno 19th-20th century Spanish writer and philosopher 1864 - 1936

The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), XI : The Practical Problem
Contexto: More than a century ago, in 1804, in Letter XC of that series that constitutes the immense monody of his Obermann, Sénancour wrote the words which I have put at the head of this chapter — and of all the spiritual descendants of the patriarchal Rousseau, Sénancour was the most profound and intense; of all the men of heart and feeling that France has produced, not excluding Pascal, he was the most tragic. "Man is perishable. That may be; but let us perish resisting, and if it is nothingness that awaits us, do not let us so act that it shall be a just fate." Change this sentence from it negative to the positive form — "And if it is nothingness that awaits us, let us so act that it shall be an unjust fate" — and you get the firmest basis of action for the man who cannot or will not be a dogmatist.

„Fate is how your life unfolds when you let fear determine your choices. A path of destiny reveals itself to you, however, when you confront your fear and make conscious choices.“

—  Caroline Myss author from the United States 1952

„For us, it is conquer or die. This is a unique burden for the white man, that our fate is entirely in our hands.“

—  Richard Bertrand Spencer American white supremacist 1978

„Let us, then, be up and doing.
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labor and to wait.“

—  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, A Psalm of Life

St. 9.
A Psalm of Life (1839)
Fuente: Longfellow's Poems

„We all play chess with Fate as partner. He makes a move, we make a move. He tries to checkmate us in three moves, we try to prevent it. We know we can't win, but we're driven to give him a good fight.“

—  Isaac Bashevis Singer Polish-born Jewish-American author 1902 - 1991

Fuente: The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer

„I will always buy extra yarn. I will not try to tempt fate.“

—  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Canadian writer 1968

Fuente: At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much

„What we need to do is transcend these localized grids of fate, which make us what we are but don't want to be.“

—  Terence McKenna American ethnobotanist 1946 - 2000

Psychedelic Society (1984)
Contexto: !-- ~28m57s -->Because too much we have lived in the light of the idea that your ideology will be dictated to you essentially by geography! And if you're born in India, you'll find out that the Cosmos is one way; if you're born in Brooklyn, you find out it's another way. What we need to do is transcend these localized grids of fate, which make us what we are but don't want to be.

„Let me give you a piece of advice. The handsome young fellow who's trying to rescue you from a hideous fate is never wrong. Not even if he says the sky is purple and made of hedgehogs.“

—  Cassandra Clare, libro Ángel mecánico

Fuente: Clockwork Angel

„The fate of the nation is in my hands and I've got a booger. - as George W. Bush“

—  Kerry Jackson

Radio From Hell (January 11, 2007)

„You can be as mad as a mad dog at the way things went, you can curse the fates, but when it comes to the end, you have to let go.“

—  Eric Roth American screenwriter 1945

Fuente: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Screenplay

„Don't waste the breath to save your face, When you have done your best, And even more is asked of you, Let fate decide the rest.“

—  Robert Hunter American musician 1941 - 2019

"Built to Last"
Built to Last (1989)

„If you don't like the hand that fate's dealt you, fight for a new one.“

—  Masashi Kishimoto Japanese manga artist 1974

„Their fate will be in each other's hands as they decide whether to share or to shaft.“

—  Robert Kilroy-Silk British politician 1942

Shafted, 2001
Frequently shown as a running joke on Have I Got News For You

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

—  Thomas Hardy, libro Lejos del mundanal ruido

Fuente: Far from the Madding Crowd

„what cannot be saved when fate takes, patience her injury a mockery makes“

—  William Shakespeare, Otelo

Fuente: Othello

„No, we have not destroyed it. Let it sit. We cannot change its fate.“

—  Vasily Grossman Soviet writer and journalist who originally trained as an engineer 1905 - 1964

1960s

„To us Germans everything is religion. What we do we do not merely with our hands and brains, but with our hearts and souls. This has often become a tragic fate for us.“

—  Baldur von Schirach German Nazi leader convicted of crimes against humanity in the Nuremberg trial 1907 - 1974

Quoted in "The Face of the Third Reich: Portraits of the Nazi Leadership" - by Joachim C. Fest - History - 1999 - Page 220