652 quotes found
“We can't change our fate, because we can't change something which doesn't exist.”
“The trams fate is to travel only on its track. But for man, everywhere is a track; everywhere is his fate!”
“There is always a moment in our lives when we are destined to fall the way we ever feared of.”
“In this game against fate, I am losing. Miserably.”
“Sometimes I think things happen for a reason... And I think if we're meant to run into each other again, fate will make it happen.”
“What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.”
“The universe had an odd sense of fairness; it took away things one did not want to give up, and then gave things one did not ask for.”
“The long years had taught him that everything worked itself out given enough time, and some things would always be the way fate wished them to be.”
“Fate would have no divinity if we were wise: it is we who make her a goddess and place her in heaven.”
“We were discussing the fine puppetry of fate.”
“Fate drives cruel bargains. We must always release one thing before we can grasp something else.”
“Fate! This four-letter little word gave the biggest harm to mankind! We must totally get rid of this degrading concept of primitiveness!”
“Your work is your destiny.”
“And here she was, an old woman now, living and hoping, keeping faith, afraid of evil, full of anxiety for the living and an equal concern for the dead; here she was, looking at the ruins of her hom...”
“Ive found I still serve a purpose. I remind people to pray, to calculate the odds, to thank the fates, the gods, good karma, whatever it was that made this happen to me and not them. Im in the wors...”
“The powe if fate is something terrible. It cannot be escaped--not with wealth or by war, not with a tower ir a sea-lashed black ship.”
“No one's fate is of any interest to you except your own.”
“Come in, Bean." Come in Julian Delphiki, longed-for child of good and loving parents. Come in, kidnapped child, hostage of fate. Come and talk to the Fates, who are playing such clever little games...”
“When forces of nature are involved, fate gets all the blame.”
“Fate is a fickle bitch. Just when you believe you've secured the goose that lays the golden egg, she back heels you in the bollocks.”
