652 quotes found
“I can control my destiny, but not my fate. Destiny means there are opportunities to turn right or left, but fate is a one-way street. I believe we all have the choice as to whether we fulfill our d...”
“It's all on the wheel.”
“I don't want to lose you because of the f**ked-up way I found you.”
“These things hath Fate brought to pass, and we be but Fate's whipping-tops bandied what way she will.”
“What happened to Violet was terrible, and Im not saying fate happens without blame. But when fate turns out well, everyone should forget the bad road that got us here.”
“If psychics are real, it implies that the universe is far vaster and stranger than conventional perception would state. If psychics can talk to the dead, that removes the sting of mortality and los...”
“That men would die was a matter of necessity; which men would die, though, was a matter of circumstance, and Yossarian was willing to be the victim of anything but circumstance.”
“In the meantime, Charlie learnt to fly. Dorothea fell in love. Peter discovered a new star. And a great number of things happened to Justin. Hundreds of millions of ordinary, unexpected, and occasi...”
“he imagined fate as a goddess, capricious and fickle, or as a river, which could flood at any moment”
“These days, all I ask Fate is that the people she hurls into my life, whether they are evil or good, or morally bipolar, should be amusing to one degree or another.”
“...maybe that's why this all went wrong. Like fate saying 'hey, you rush me so I'll fuck up everything for you guys.”
“There is no fate, only free will, and we were just in the way of other people's free will when they decided to do the Devil's work.”
“Do you know something? I've got this funny feeling fate arranged for you to enter my life for the express purpose of tormenting me.”
“If you achieve good results using a poor method, isn't that a much greater achievement than starting from better methods.”
“How much better it would be, she thinks, if the world were ruled by chance and not a God.”
“But something-luck, fate, conspiracy, whatever you want to call it-has thrown us together." He leaned forward, his gaze never leaving her face. "Of all the crazy places in the world, here we are, a...”
“The universe doesn't hand out blank cards to play. You will know your hand soon enough.”
“As lines, so loves oblique may well Themselves in every angle greet; But ours so truly parallel, Though infinite, can never meet. Therefore the love which us doth bind, But Fate so enviously debars...”
“Fearlessness is better than a faint heart for any man who puts his nose out of doors. The length of my life and the day of my death were fated long ago.”
“For Fate/ The willing leads, the unwilling drags along.”
