Fate Quotes

Though men determine the gods do dispose: and oft times many things fall out between the cup and th...

Though men determine the gods do dispose: and oft times many things fall out between the cup and th...

Though men determine the gods do dispose: and oft times many things fall out between the cup and th...

Though men determine the gods do dispose: and oft times many things fall out between the cup and th...

The best luck always happens to people who don't need it.

I am quite a wise old bird, but I am no desert hermit who can only prophesy when his guts are knotte...

You have perhaps heard some false reportsOn the subject of God. He is not dead; and he is not a fabl...

I don't believe in a fate that will fall on us no matter what we do. I do believe in a fate that wil...

Saddam's fate should be in the hands of his country men. They were the major victims of his brutal r...

One minute you've got a lucky star watching over you and the next instant it's done a bunk.

Whatso'er we perpetrate We do but row we are steered by fate.

Whatso'er we perpetrate We do but row we are steered by fate.

Whatso'er we perpetrate We do but row we are steered by fate.

Whatso'er we perpetrate We do but row we are steered by fate.

Whatso'er we perpetrate We do but row we are steered by fate.

Whatso'er we perpetrate We do but row we are steered by fate.

Whatso'er we perpetrate We do but row we are steered by fate.

Whatso'er we perpetrate We do but row we are steered by fate.

He grinned again. We'd only been seeing each other for a few weeks now, but this easy give-and-take ...

Sometimes, you have to manufacture your own history. Give fate a push, so to speak.

Isn't that the way everything begins? A night, a love, a once and for all.

Everything in life had its phases, and if you were smart, you learned to appreciate them all. What r...

For you, I wish for second chances

Maybe our mistakes are what make our fate.

Fate goes ever as fate must.

All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

Mankind accepts good fortune as his due, but when bad occurs, he thinks it was aimed at him, done to...

And wonder, dread and warhave lingered in that landwhere loss and love in turnhave held the upper ha...

[T]his readiness to assume the guilt for the threats to our environment is deceptively reassuring: W...

If you try to cure evil with evilyou will add more pain to your fate.

The powe if fate is something terrible. It cannot be escaped--not with wealth or by war, not with a ...

... for we perceive that this miraculous development is not the result of our own efforts: an eterna...

But though hast come and all will surely change.

Only in youth does coincidence seem the same as fate. Later, we know that the real course of our liv...

For the first time I began to perceive that true sympathy cannot be switched on and off like an elec...

Time and tide wait for no man.

Luck's the word those with poor hearts use for ka...

Sometimes a cigar is just a smoke and a coincidence is just a coincidence.

But in high school the business of irrevocable choices began. Doors slipped shut with a faint lockin...

If there's to be damnation, she had said, let it be of my choosing, not theirs. He knew a little abo...

Roland of Gilead responded as he ever had and ever would when such useless, mystifying questions wer...

Come on, Doctor... we got places to go.

If it's ka it'll come like a wind, and your plans will stand before it no more than a barn before a ...

Would the truth be silenced, or would it try to break throughMeaning if someone loves you and its me...

Through you we learn to be invisible, through you inaudible; and hence we can hold the enemy's fate ...

Fixed stars govern a life

Many men would take the death-sentence without a whimper, to escape the life-sentence which fate car...

Albert grunted. "Do you know what happens to lads who ask too many questions?"Mort thought for a mom...

TO CHANGE THE FATE OF ONE INDIVIDUAL IS TO CHANGE THE WORLD.

It goes without saying that the Jewish people can have no other goal than Palestine and that, whatev...

And then he again uneasily saw, as he had latterly seen with more and more frequency, the scorn of N...

In the ill-judged execution of the well-judged plan of things the call seldom produces the comer, th...

Yet her experience had consisted less in a series of pure disappointments than in a series of substi...

She had the hard, half-apathetic expression of one who deems anything possible at the hands of time ...

And all this while the subtle-souled girl asking herself why she was born, why sitting in a room, an...

Such ordeals always strike one with their strangeness, their digression from the normal flow of even...

And any room that I enter may become a sideshow tent where I must take my place upon a rickety old b...

I have no idea how long Quisser was gone from the table. My attention became fully absorbed by the o...

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with an...

Sometimes, I am my own worst enemy.

Watching her, I remembered a girl I'd known in school, a grind, Mildred Grossman. Mildred: with her ...

Once a thing is set to happen, all you can do is hope it won't. Or will-depending. As long as you li...

The fine thing about pacts with the devil is that when you sign them you are well aware of their con...

But why, everybody asks, am I not blessed by fortune (or at least not as blessed as I would like to ...

Not even need and love can defeat fate...

When I was young, I had to choose between the life of being and the life of doing. And I leapt at th...

A man does not make his destiny: he accepts it or denies it.

Those whom heaven helps we call the sons of heaven. They do not learn this by learning. They do not ...

And that luck was only fate's cheating, giving an illusion of power. But that illusion lingered, and...

And here she was, an old woman now, living and hoping, keeping faith, afraid of evil, full of anxiet...

Before the war Sofya Levinton had once said to Yevgenia Nikolaevna Shaposhnikova, 'If one man is fat...

He had to accept the fate of every newcomer to a small town where there are plenty of tongues that g...

But then what does it matter whence comes the gentle nudge that jars the soul into motion and sets i...

We all have such fateful objects -- it may be a recurrent landscape in one case, a number in another...

I have often noticed that we are inclined to endow our friends with the stability of type that liter...

Happy the hare at morning, for she cannot readThe hunter's waking thoughts.

See how the Fates their gifts allot. For A is happy - B is not. Yet B is worthy I dare say Of more...

It was a sordid scene. Philip leaned over the rail, staring down, and he ceased to hear the music. T...

It's no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling ...

There is some history that I want not to have happened. I resist the consequences of being Nemesis.

Destiny has got the rope round my neck – and I feel it.

It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my f...

I can't do nothing. Just put it off. And that don't do no good. I reckon it belong to me. I reckon w...

I realized that the worst thing that could happen to me was about to happen to me.

That is my rule of life. If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow. Do you remember He...

It would be the irony of fate if my administration had to deal chiefly with foreign affairs.

Just now I had a dream. I'll see you again. I know it. Beneath the falls.

Life, death, preservation, loss, failure, success, poverty, riches, worthiness, unworthiness, slande...

The stars have not dealt me the worst they could do:My pleasures are plenty, my troubles are two.But...

This is where I have always been coming to. Since my time began. And when I go away from here, this ...

History, too, has a penchant for giving birth to itself over and over again, and those whom it appoi...

Three grey women walk with me Fate and Grief and Memory. My fate brought grief; my grief must be Wit...

One knows so little. When one knows more it is too late.

He pondered long over this, for might not another man, returning to another valley, have found none ...

Fate is not in man but around him

And I would tell him, as we rise into the air, The curse is not that we cannot choose our Fates.The ...

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of y...

Let me here remind you that the essence of dramatic tragedy is not unhappiness. It resides in the so...

The essence of dramatic tragedy is not unhappiness. It resides in the solemnity of the remorseless w...