“We hasten to alienate the very fates we intended to woo.”
Vladimir Nabokov book Lolita
Source: Lolita
“We are not masters of ourselves and in our days of youthful folly we hasten to give premature vows the omniscient Fate shall ridicule.”
Quoted in We'll Live Till Monday (1968) (Russian film)
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“We are still masters of our fate.
We are still captains of our souls.”
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Source: The Crisis
Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) Führer and Reich Chancellor of Germany, Leader of the Nazi Party
Source: As quoted in The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany, William L. Shirer, Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, New York, 1990, p. 249 (May 1, 1937)
Richard Salter Storrs (1821–1900) American Congregational clergyman
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 561.
Sheldon Kopp (1929–1999) American psychotherapist
Source: Even a stone can be a teacher (1985), p. 85
Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire
Variant: I think sometimes we are reckless with our hearts the way we are with our lives. When we give them away, we give every piece. And if we do not get what we so desperately need, how do we live?
Source: City of Heavenly Fire
“For the first time, we have the power to decide the fate of our planet and ourselves.”
Carl Sagan (1934–1996) American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author and science educator
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Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990 Update), The Shores of the Cosmic Ocean [Episode 1]
Context: For the first time, we have the power to decide the fate of our planet and ourselves. This is a time of great danger, but our species is young, and curious, and brave. It shows much promise.
