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Quotes About Fate

I have to save the world tomorrow, and I don't even know what I'm going to wear yet.
~ Kim Harrison
The first went down beneath the oak, stung by the taste of steel in his blood. The second on holy ground did fall, stained with the cries of his folly. The third in the dust and salt did fail, sent back to his master, a silent warning given." Jenks looked up, clearly not seeing me. "This ground is ours. So it is said with broken wing, poisoned blood, and our unburied dead.
~ Kim Harrison
According to the religious, idealist view, which regards man as a purely spiritual being, man is a product of a certain supernatural, mysterious being and his destiny is also decided by the latter. By means of their religious, idealist view of man, the reactionary ruling class and its spokesmen preached that the miserable lot of the working masses who suffered exploitation and oppression was their unavoidable fate and therefore, they had to submit to their predestined lot.
~ Kim Jong Il
Beauty is the promise of happiness. And the only happiness is action. ... Fate is the path of least action.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
no one knows why things happen, you see? Anything could follow from anything. Even real history tells us nothing.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
Becoming a shaman is a fate that can strike anyone. Even you.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
Only a few people in this world were lucky enough to run into their true partners—it took outrageous luck for it to happen, then the sense to recognize it, and the courage to act. Few could be expected to have all that, and then to have things go well. The rest had to make do.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
Only a few people in this world were lucky enough to run into their true partners—it took outrageous luck for it to happen, then the sense to recognize it, and the courage to act.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
Shikata ga nai," Maya said sardonically. There is no other choice.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
Leelawati was sitting on a swing in the palace. Without meaning to, i ran towards her. She swung herself from the swing straight into my arms and hugged me. She wouldn't let go of me and i wasn't about to let go of her. To be trusted so, without any reservations, i too must have been up to some good in my past lives.
~ Kiran Nagarkar
It's always the same story. Naturally one doesn't get the woman one should have had; but if by some damned freak of reason and justice it ever does happen, then of course she dies immediately after.
~ Knut Hamsun
I was seized with bitterness, and wept as I went along the street. . . . I cursed the cruel powers, whoever they might be, that persecuted me so, consigned them to hell's damnation and eternal torments for their petty persecution. There was but little chivalry in fate, really little enough chivalry; one was forced to admit that.
~ Knut Hamsun
Man reiser litt omkring, man flakker fra sted til sted og man har den skjebne å støte på mennesker igjen som man engang før har sett, møte dem plutselig, på uventede steder, så man av overraskelse ganske glemmer å ta hatten av og hilse.Dette treffer meg ofte, ja meget ofte. Det er det intet å gjøre ved (Dronningen av Saba)
~ Knut Hamsun
I desired you before, but I never loved you until this life.
~ Kresley Cole
Hey, you've still got your endangered hymen. Which means you'll make it to closing credits - I'm s.o.l.
~ Kresley Cole
My relationship with Jackson had felt fated. Whatever I had with Aric felt . . . endless.
~ Kresley Cole
Nix had told Emma before she'd left for Europe that on this trip she would 'do that which you were born to do.' Apparently, Emma was born to get kidnapped by a deranged Lykae. Her fate sucked.
~ Kresley Cole
She'd been born for him. And I was born to find her…
~ Kresley Cole
The Valkyrie did not believe in coincidence, only fate. And sometimes fate didn't even bother being subtle.
~ Kresley Cole
You are unnerving the hell out of me, Valkyrie. oh she frowned, petting her bat fitfully I must have misread the future for the past. she shrugged. It happens.
~ Kresley Cole
Not to marry, know love, or bind, their fate; Your line to die for never seed shall take. Death and torment to those caught in their wake, unless each son finds his forechosen mate... For his true lady alone his life and heart can save.
~ Kresley Cole
I've wrought my family's destruction. Killed those I loved most, with my very touch. My dark precipice has been reached. I throw back my head and roar as recognition takes hold. I am Death...
~ Kresley Cole
My Bride by fate, my wife by choice... - Conrad Wroth
~ Kresley Cole
I know exactly what you are now. I know what you will be - Lothaire
~ Kresley Cole