„p>Fate slew him, but he did not drop;She felled—he did not fall—Impaled him on her fiercest stakes—He neutralized them all.She stung him, sapped his firm advance,But, when her worst was done,And he, unmoved, regarded her,Acknowledged him a man.
— Emily Dickinson

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„She had to go on this quest. The fate of the world might depend on it. But part of him wanted to say: Forget the world. He didn’t want to be without her.“
— Rick Riordan
„Ten thousand years ago, when man the nomad took root in one place, he brought animals with him into human service. But domestication was to be his fate too, as he fell under architecturally reinforced female control.“
— Camille Paglia
„To turn away from the enemy is cowardice. Misfortune is the fate of the enemy.( When he learned that the Crusaders had come toward him )“
— Mehmed II