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Quotes About Fate

Make the best use of what is in our power, and treat the rest in accordance with its nature. And what is its nature? However God decides.
~ Epictetus
This is the road that leads to liberty, the only road that delivers us from slavery: finally to be able to say, with meaning: Lead me, Zeus, lead me, Destiny, to the goal I was long ago assigned
~ Epictetus
Good luck frees many men from punishment, but no man from fear.
~ Epictetus
in the shaping of a life, chance and the ability to respond to chance are everything.
~ Eric Hoffer
Practically all writers and artists are aware of their destiny and see themselves as actors in a fateful drama. With me, nothing is momentous: obscure youth, glorious old age, fateful coincidences — nothing really matters. I have written a number of good sentences. I have kept free of delusions. I know I am going to die soon.
~ Eric Hoffer
A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
~ Eric Hoffer
I have a premonition that will not leave me; as it goes with Israel so will it go with all of us. Should Israel perish, the Holocaust will be upon us.
~ Eric Hoffer
I wish I had met you first. Before we met them.
~ Eric Jerome Dickey
Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.
~ Eric Roth
You can be as mad as a mad dog at the way things went, you can curse the fates, but when it comes to the end, you have to let go.
~ Eric Roth
If only one thing had happened differently—but life, being what it is—a series of intersecting lives and incidents, out of anyone's control.
~ Eric Roth
Captain Barry steered the plane back toward land and ordered the crew to bail out. One of the copilots, Captain Theodore Schreier, mistakenly put on a life jacket over his parachute. He was never seen again. The
~ Eric Schlosser
Books go out into the world, travel mysteriously from hand to hand, and somehow find their way to the people who need them at the time when they need them. Cosmic forces guide such passings-along.
~ Erica Jong
I wished for you to be born a daughter though we know that daughters cannot but be born for burning like the fatal tree.
~ Erica Jong
Un homme est fait de choix et de circonstances. Personne n'a de pouvoir sur les circonstances, mais chacun en a sur ses choix.
~ Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
Tu mourras par où tu as péché.
~ Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
J'admets la part de l'autre dans la constitution de mon destin.
~ Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
Hanya ada satu kepastian, yaitu kepastian tentang masa lampau. Sedangkan tentang masa depan, yang ada hanyalah kepastian tentang kematian
~ Erich Fromm
It's so easy to believe that others deserve their fate, and the fact was that if nobody bothered to help other people then the worst would always happen… She stares out of her window at the busy street, where the British go about their daily business, taking it for granted that they will never be arrested for not voting the right way, praying the right way, dressing the right way or for belonging to a different tribe.
~ Amanda Craig
There was no magical key, no way to run or hide from my legacy. This was the life that had been given to me. What I made of it was up to me.
~ Amanda Stevens
What is yours will roll uphill to find you.
~ Amapola Cabase
Responsibility: A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one's neighbor. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
~ Ambrose Bierce
This ONLY is denied God The power to undo the past.
~ Ambrose Gwinett Bierce