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“Merciful Heavens! but what do I care for the laws of nature and arithmetic, when, for some reason I dislike those laws and the fact that twice two makes four? Of course I cannot break through the w...”
“Life is actually a self made web of fate.”
“The only way to wrest yourself from Bad Luck's grip is to act. Not randomly, but with logical purpose. And if you were wrong, you backed up and re- A person can't sit on their ass and wait for Good...”
“Bad news. If you can see it coming, you brace yourself; you weigh the outcome. But there's always that niggling voice, that voice of hope whispering, 'Maybe it's good news.' Whether you can admit i...”
“I'm not formed by things that are of myself alone. I wear my father's belt tied around my mother's blouse, and shoes which are from my uncle. This is me. Just as a flower does not choose its color,...”
“It is important not to become a prisoner of fate.”
“Life is a wondrous journey that can be of your own making or a combination of fate and luck.”
“To survive was to escape fate. But if you escape your fate, whose life do you then step into?”
“Fate lies down the path for those strong enough to walk it.”
“[That] was the cruelty of fate, whether you were dying at sea or simply trying to get through high school. Sometimes fate kissed you. Sometimes it snubbed you. Sometimes it passed you a love note, ...”
“I am called by many names: Destiny, Fate, Fortune; however, I prefer Moira, for it sounds as if I have a heart. I do not.I oversee human destinies, and all things happen exactly as I intend. Some t...”
“Fate didn't stand in the way. Rather, they themselves were their own worst enemies.”
“Pay attention to fate.... It will always have the last word.”
“Fate.A word meaning destiny.Fate. A word meaning doom.”
“If luck wouldn't find him, he would do his best to make his own.”
“We can decide our fate every day, when we love we will be loved.”
“That is my rule of life. If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow. Do you remember Henley's magnificent lines? 'Under the bludgeonings of chanceMy head is bloody, but unbowed.' ? Tha...”
“I know, at the time it was an imperfect solution in an imperfect world.”
“Fate is an excuse for people who are too stupid or too weak to make their own future," he said.”
“I fear mostly my inability to capture all the things that come, I fear their mysterious source, I fear their fate, I fear me, in short. This is trueits like finding a river of gold when you havent ...”
