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Quotes About Fate

Crime 101: There's a word for a man who believes in coincidence: the defendant.
~ Don Winslow
History is the record of an encounter between character and circumstances.
~ Donald Creighton
What advice I would give to anybody about anything. Life is a slow-motion avalanche, and none of us are steering." (When asked in an interview about what question he's tired of being asked.)
~ Donald E. Westlake
There is only one way to come into this world there are too many ways to leave it.
~ Donald Harington
Doc Colvin Swain was the seventh son of a seventh son, which Ozark tradition indicates as infallibly as the daily setting of the sun that he was destined to become a physician, even in spite of himself.
~ Donald Harington
Fate loves the fearless.
~ James Russell Lowell
In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.
~ Nizami Ganjavi
Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.
~ Bette Davis
In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.
~ Plutarch
I feel like I'm worried about my later years in life because I feel like I'm using up so much good karma right now. There's going to be some sort of karmic backlash somewhere down the road.
~ Ed Helms
I think God has a plan for me, but I don't think it's in this life.
~ Gia Carangi
Life, unfortunately, doesn't seem to care what we want.
~ Richelle Mead, Last Sacrifice
We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come.
~ Milan Kundera
You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.
~ Goldie Hawn
Sit and reflect on life itself and you would discover that nothing happens by chance.
~ T. B. Joshua
But helpless Pieces of the Game He plays Upon this Checker-board of Nights and Days; Hither and thither moves, and checks, and slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays.
~ Omar Khayyam
Maybe life is a board game, but I never get to roll the dice.
~ Tim Wynne-Jones
Random chance plays a huge part in everybody's life.
~ Gary Gygax
Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
You're only two years older than me, darling. Where have you been all my life?
~ Christopher Plummer
I believe life takes us where we need to be.
~ Sasha Alexander
Time decides who you meet in life, your heart decides who you want in your life, and your behavior decides who stays in your life.
~ Ziad K. Abdelnour
One chance, One life. Make it or screw it up, it's your choice. Don't wait to long or your time will be up.
~ Stephen Burt
So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness.
~ Sidney Poitier