Fate Quotes

If God created everything, and if man is created in God's image, and if man can dream a fate greater than the one set out for him by God, could God dream a fate greater than his own?

Michael Anthony

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

Destiny n: a tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.

Fate rules the affairs of mankind with no recognizable order.

Seneca

He who does not desire or fear the uncertain day or capricious fate is equal to the gods above and loftier than mortals.

The worst is not always certain but it's very likely.

It is a long road from conception to completion.

Molière

God keeps the wicked to give them time to repent.

Sophie Rostopchine Sigur

Fortune is fickle and soon asks back what he has given.

Destiny is what you are supposed to do in life. Fate is what kicks you in the ass to make you do it.

That which God writes on thy forehead thou wilt come to it.

The Koran

When its time has come the prey goes to the hunter.

Persian Proverb

The bow is bent the arrow flies The winged shaft of fate.

He has gone to the demnition bow-wows.

Charles Dickens

Certainty generally is illusion and repose is not the destiny of man.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

How many roads must a man walk down Before you call him a man?

Bob Dylan

Heaven is the place where the donkey finally catches up with his carrot: hell is the eternity while he waits for it.

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.

That that is is.

William Shakespeare

Everything passes everything wears out everything breaks.(Tout passe tout lasse tout casse.)

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

Whatever limits us we call Fate.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

Marcus Aurelius

Certain signs precede certain events.

Cicero

Without road maps fate just takes over to create random events.

Every breath we take from the airTakes oxygen from an insect’s lungs mid-prayerAnd every exhalation does loudly declareThat in the currency of life, we’re millionaires.A butterfly flapped it’s wings and Rome fellA passerby’s whistle cracked the liberty bellAnd I dare urge the daring not to yellLest we so bid a skyscraper a rough farewell.A snake’s tongue slithered and man did sinLet me tell you how the waves from a shark’s finDid set the tides on D-Day and let the allies win;Chance and destiny are identical twins.A word was spoken and the earth createdAnother phrase and the future was dictatedAnd so every action must be carefully weightedWe just never know how things are interrelated.

The point is, there is no point." Philip spoke up surprisingly. "No one here gets out alive. And over a sufficient period of time, all choices tend to normalize on a curve of random distribution.""You mean if you wait long enough, nothing happens?

Rosemary Edghill

Thinking more deeply into things usually left alone helps us to find bubbles of truth and clarity. When we realize we have power over our minds, we find strength, and that helps us float high along the forces of fate that order our motions within shapeless space.

Embrace your sacred existence.

Lailah Gifty Akita

You don’t have to compete with any one. Seek to outdo your own performance. You will always be happy.

Lailah Gifty Akita

To what extent does anybody control his destiny? Life is very much like falling of the edge of a cliff. You have complete freedom to make all the choices you want to take on your way down. My characters choose to yearn and not lose hope even when the odds are completely against them. It doesn't make the landing at the end of that fall any less painful but, somehow, it helps them keep a little dignity their bone broken body.

I've heard fate talked of. It's not a word I use. I think we make our own choices. I think how we live our lives is our own doing, and we cannot fully hope on dreams and stars. But dreams and stars can guide us, perhaps. And the heart's voice is a strong one. Always is.

It's fate, but fate just gives us a nudge in the right direction onthe fast lane, I guarantee she doesn't have her hands in your pockets while she's doing it

I too saw the wooden horse blocking the stars.

It was quite a wedding and as I stood there watching I realized something I'd forgotten a long time ago. Sometimes in life there really are bonds formed that can never be broken. Sometimes you really can find that one person who will stand by you no matter what. Maybe you will find it in a spouse and celebrate it with your dream wedding. But there's also the chance that the one person you can count on for a lifetime, the one person who knows you sometimes better than you know yourself is the same person who's been standing beside you all along.

Don't let circumstances determine your fate. Choose your fate and mold circumstances to fit your fate of choice.

She had never believed in fate. She still did not. It would be nonsense of freedom of will and choice, and it was through such freedom that we worked our way through life and learned what we needed to learn. But sometimes, it seemed to her, there was something, some sign, to nudge one along in a certain direction. What one chose to do with that nudge was up to that person.

Would the truth be silenced, or would it try to break throughMeaning if someone loves you and its meant to be but for unknown reasons it seems to be over would you somehow get fatalistic messages that would hint at you the truth behind the relationship- are forces at play to try and waken you up to the idea that you're actually meant to be and should be together?

Stephenie Meyer

Delphine witnessed awful things occurring to other humans. Worse than that, she was powerless to alter their fate. It would be that way all her life--disasters, falling like chairs all around her, falling so close they disarranged her hair, but not touching her.

The trigger has been squeezed, the deathly mechanism has been enabled, the fatal course of a bullet has been set. No amount of bleating or praying or wailing of cajoling can halt it or stall it or call it back.

The sun's rays don't bother me. No they cast down such a wonderful heat. Masking beauty, by a terrible fate.

Sara Quin

But that I should have ended up in a place like this seems too custom-made a nightmare to be the work of mere ill fortune.

All this was new to me. Life takes us by surprise and orders us to move towards the unknown - even when we don't want to and we think we don't need to.

Fate is but a dying wish... Of a world that is beyond control. Like a single lotus flower, the future blossoms; Upon its petals, two people shall be free.

You can't ascribe great cosmic significance to a simple earthly event. Coincidence. That's all anything ever is. Nothing more than coYou can't ascribe great cosmic significance to a simple earthly event. Coincidence. That's all anything ever is. Nothing more than co

Scott Neustadter

All we can do is pray, Ma, pray.No, Child, these are the deeds of human beings. Planned by the brains of humans, and by the warped hearts of humans. It is to people we must speak our words. God has never sided with the defeated.

Pramoedya Ananta Toer

Roland of Gilead responded as he ever had and ever would when such useless, mystifying questions were raised: 'Ka.

He talked about luck and fate and numbers coming up, yet he never ventured a nickel at the casinos because he knew the house had all the percentages. And beneath his pessimism, his bleak conviction that all the machinery was rigged against him, at the bottom of his soul was a faith that he was going to outwit it, that by carefully watching the signs he was going to know when to dodge and be spared. It was fatalism with a loophole, and all you had to do to make it work was never miss a sign. Survival by coordination, as it were. The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but to those who can see it coming and jump aside. Like a frog evading a shillelagh in a midnight marsh.

Hunter S. Thompson

Find then follow the path that enables you to live the life you want to live. Don't be blow by the winds of fate. Don't be a creation of circumstances.

Often subtle clues are not obvious enough for the stubborn or stupid. This is when God stops throwing crumbs and starts throwing the whole piece of bread. If you step on moldy bread then you know you have waited too long.

Shannon L. Alder

LIfe is just a game of chance, a dance with fate if you let it be so. Or you could chose to play by your rules to win.

I understood that fate could not be eluded forever; it came on leathery wings, swooping through the darkness like the bats in the orchards.

If there's to be damnation, she had said, let it be of my choosing, not theirs. He knew a little about damnation himself… and he had an idea that the lessons, far from being done, were just beginning.

Time whips up cream for those who are ready for dessert.

Every decent man in America ought to swoon with joy for the opportunity to crush with his heel the woolly head of this black lizard, to keep him from scuttling on his belly farther over the earth and spitting forth his venom of death!

Luck Doesn't Exist in one's world, its the unexplainable and the unexpected that makes some question fate

Elliot Kesebonye

You cannot force things apart that are bound at the heart.

Ashly Lorenzana

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

Robert Penn Warren

Fate will unwind as it must!

This is where I have always been coming to. Since my time began. And when I go away from here, this will be the mid-point, to which everything ran, before, and from which everything will run. But now, my love, we are here, we are now, and those other times are running elsewhere.

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