652 quotes found
“When an inner situation is not made conscious it appears outside as fate.”
“Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life, and you know not whether for good or ill.”
“I felt a little guilty about jangling the poor bugger's brains with that evil fantasy. But what the hell? Anybody who wanders around the world saying, "Hell yes, I'm from Texas," deserves whatever ...”
“Fate. As a child, that word was often my only companion. It whispered to me from dark corners during lonely nights. It was the song of the birds in spring and the call of the wind through bare bran...”
“Irony is Fate's most common figure of speech.”
“Above all, mine is a love story. Unlike most love stories, this one involves chance, gravity, a dash of head trauma. It began with a coin toss. The coin came up tails. I was heads. Had it gone my w...”
“Sometimes our fate is different from the one we imagined for ourselves.”
“Strange things conspire when one tries to cheat fate”
“He stares at me so darkly, so hungily that I can only nod. Agree. Of course, I feel it. "I do", I admit.”
“But some things, no matter how unlikely, are just supposed to happen. You know what I mean. Some things just smack of the future and feel part of an overarching rightness. ”
“My fate is like those envelopes sealed and tossed aside.”
“Not even need and love can defeat fate...”
“Yeah. A feeling. Like the whole point of my life from the alleys in Bangkok to the yachts and private island to coming here like a crazy person trying to fly a helicopter like all of it from birth ...”
“The future was with Fate. The present was our own.~ The Poison Belt”
“It is always thus, impelled by a state of mind which is destined not to last, we make our irrevocable decisions”
“I will always buy extra yarn. I will not try to tempt fate.”
“Fate already warned us to pack it in. We just didnt hear it in time.”
“We gallop through our lives like circus performers balancing on two speeding side-by-side horses--one foot is on the horse called "fate," the other on the horse called "free will." And the question...”
“It seems to me further, that it is very odd that fate should leave so careful a trail, and spend so little time preparing the one that must follow it.”
“Suddenly Ka realized he was in love with pek. And realizing that this love would determine the rest of his life, he was filled with dread.”
