652 quotes found
“The best things that happen I'd never have thought to pray for. In a million years. The worst things just come like the weather.”
“In twenty-one years, I have not considered changing to Todd. The bizarre course of my life suggests that Odd is more suited to me, whether it was conferred by my parents with intention or fate.”
“Like all beings, I will eventually add my energy and matter and light to the fabric of the universe, a single strand in its amazing tapestry.”
“You can change the road you take, but sometimes it can bend back to lead you straight to that same stubborn fate.”
“Do you know what a fate map is in biology? It’s a map of which cells in an embryo should develop into which specific adult tissues. But what they should develop into isn’t necessarily what they act...”
“Fate isn't a straight road," I said, becoming the oracle that earlier in the day I had declined to be for her. "There are forks in it, many different routes to different ends. We have the free will...”
“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...”
“I don't want to lose you because of the f**ked-up way I found you.”
“What happened to Violet was terrible, and I’m not saying fate happens without blame. But when fate turns out well, everyone should forget the bad road that got us here.”
“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...”
“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.”
“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.”
“If you achieve good results using a poor method, isn't that a much greater achievement than starting from better methods. - Rider”
“For Fate/ The willing leads, the unwilling drags along.”
“This is just your unwritten life. You didn’t expect it, it just happened.”
“To be a Russian writer at the end of the nineteenth century must have meant bearing an inescapably bitter fate. The more they tried to escape from Russia, the more deeply Russia swallowed them.”
“I have brought you a hero’s fate, and a hero’s fate is never happy. It is never anything but tragic.”
“What's the world's greatest lie?' the boy asked, completely surprised.'It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by...”
“What you may seek and what you may find are not always one.”
“No matter how honest scientists think they are, they are still influenced by various unconscious assumptions that prevent them from attaining true objectivity. Expressed in a sentence, Fort's princ...”
