“It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate awaiting them on this earth.”
Chance (1913), part I, Ch. 6
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Miguel de Unamuno (1864–1936) 19th-20th century Spanish writer and philosopher
The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), X : Religion, the Mythology of the Beyond and the Apocatastasis
“Present action, though futile, is preferable to passive acceptance of such a fate as awaits us.”
Michael Shea (1946–2014) writer
Source: A Quest for Simbilis (1974), Chapter 6, “The House on the River” (p. 112)
“Yet they, believe me, who await
No gifts from Chance, have conquer’d Fate.”
Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools
Source: Resignation (1849), l. 248-249
“Everyone on earth has a treasure that awaits him.”
Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist
Source: The Alchemist
Lewis Carroll (1832–1898) English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer
Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister
Source: Upon hearing of the death of Napoléon, Prince Imperial of the House of Bonaparte in Africa (1879); cited in James Anthony Froude, Lord Beaconsfield (1890), p. 213.
“We are a people born of many peoples.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969) American general and politician, 34th president of the United States (in office from 1953 to 1961)
Our culture, our skills, our very aspirations have been shaped by immigrants—and their sons and daughters—from all the earth. Sam Gompers from England, Andrew Carnegie from Scotland, Albert Einstein from Germany—and Booker T. Washington and Al Smith—Marconi and Caruso—men of all nations and races and estates—they have made us what we are.
1950s, Address at the Philadelphia Convention Hall (1956)
“In many ways an artistic nature unfits a man for practical existence.”
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer
A Lodging for the Night.
The New Arabian Nights (1882)
Mao Zedong (1893–1976) Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China
Chapter 6 https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/works/red-book/ch06.htm, originally published in Speech at the Supreme State Conference (September 8, 1958). <br class="br">Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong (The Little Red Book)