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“When I stand and contemplate my fate and see the path along which you have led me, what's the rest of it?”
“If it had been a great necessity, if it had been contingents of an army meeting to overwhelm the enemy by stealth, it might not have worked out so neatly. But fate it would seem is a perfect strate...”
“Fantastic fortune thou deceitful light,That cheats the weary traveler by night,Though on a precipice each step you tread,I am resolved to follow where you lead.”
“One wouldn't wish to tempt fate”
“(..)Fate has always been a potent force in Russia, where, for generations, citizens have had little control over their own destinies. Fate can be a bitch, but, as Zaitsev, Dvornik, and Onofrecuk ha...”
“Thus was their relationship born on the swift kiss of a pun. Neither suspected what the other would become to each of them. Like phrases running wild in the Logos, they knew neither who nor by what...”
“Things take care of themselves as long as you trust and don't try to control too much. Things will happen. Things tend to occur. Why resist what's inevitable? That's like swimming against the curre...”
“You are a Chosen Man. You are Parmenion, the Death of Nations. A hundred thousand souls will yousend to the dark river, screaming and wailing, lamenting their fate. It is right and just that yousho...”
“Here is the fate of the man: To appear and to disappear!”
“After a thousand years pass, it builds its own funeral pyre, lining it with cinnamon, myrrh and cassia. Climbing to a rest on the very top, it examines the world all throughout the night with the a...”
“He'd once known a man who said that life hinged on the moment, that everything changed in the blink of an eye. Tesseract knew the truth of that as well as anybody. It was in those moments that he s...”
“Maybe our mistakes are what make our fate.”
“He watched the fire and if he saw portents there it was much the same to him. He would live to look upon the western sea and he was equal to whatever might follow for he was complete at every hour....”
“Really," said Winifred suddenly; "it almost seems like Fate. Only that's so old-fashioned.”
“Whatever is, is in its causes just;But purblind manSees but a part o' th' chain; the nearest link;His eyes not carrying to that equal beamThat poises all above.”
“Strange and harrowing must be his story; frightful the storm which embraced the gallant vessel on its course, and wrecked it--thus!”
“It would be the irony of fate if my administration had to deal chiefly with foreign affairs.”
“If free will means to do what you want, then it does not exist. Many of its staunchest proponents have met the wheel of fate without opposing it”
“A person's name is a fate-conjuring incantation.”
“It is the lumps and trialsThat tell us whether we shall be knownAnd whether our fate can be exemplary, like a star.”
