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Quotes About Fate

Dune was a world of paradox now—a world under siege, yet the center of power. To come under siege, he decided, was the inevitable fate of power.
~ Frank Herbert
Luck is flow and force. There's no power that can fully take that into account, fate is still wavering.
~ Nobuyuki Fukumoto
we were nothing more than actions to reactions - helpless against our own fate. It's true. I react and others pay.
~ Katie McGarry, Take Me On
Fate of the worms or insects on earth is 100% better than those who are born as Royals.
~ Vishal Chipkar, Enter Heaven
Time determines the occurrence of possibilities and impossibilities, but God determines the time for the occurrence of possibilities and impossibilities.
~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Responsibility n: A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God Fate Fortune Luck or one's neighbour. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star.
~ Ambrose Bierce
When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
~ Oscar Wilde
Prayer is of no avail. The lightning falls on the just and the unjust in accordance with natural laws.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
The girl had hoped for fog, but the gods ignored her prayers as gods so often did.
~ George R. R. Martin
A strong belief in fate is the worst kind of slavery; on the other hand, there is a comfort in the thought that God will be moved by our prayers.
~ Epicurus
What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.
~ Abraham Lincoln
All prayers and hopes are a reaching-out for coincidences.
~ Eric Hoffer
What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.[Lincoln's maxim and philosophy]
~ Abraham Lincoln
When the gods are angry with a man they give him what he asks for.
~ Greek proverb
we love what we love and who we love who we love and why we love why we love and find a falling shoelace knotted and strung between the fingers of strangers
~ Kami Garcia
I don't have any relationship with God and I've never wanted it. I don't believe in fate or in any superior entity; if a plane crashes and people die, it's not because Heaven said so.
~ Fernando Alonso
The gods never let us love and be wise at the same time.
~ Publilius Syrus
Destiny, I feel, is also a relationship - a play between divine grace and willful self-effort.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
And who'd date tell the lambs in spring, what fate the later seasons bring. Who'd tell the girl in the middle the pair the price she'll be just pay for just being there.
~ William Russell
Nobody owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.
~ William S. Burroughs
Everybody has got to die, but I have always believed an exception would be made in my case.
~ William Saroyan
Had I but died an hour before this chance I had lived a blessed time; for, from this instant,There's nothing serious in mortality, All is but toys; renown and grace is dead, The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of.
~ William Shakespeare
Hanging and Riving goes by destiny.
~ William Shakespeare
Men at sometime are the masters of their fate.
~ William Shakespeare