Quotes About Fate

No one will ever make necessity not happen.

Oh look, here's Death at the gate! Punctual as ever.

But you overlook an important cultural function of games, to test the will of the gods.

nothing vast enters the lives of mortals without ruin

he smashes the black car of his luck.

A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.

All our paths lead to death.

For the LORD watches over the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish. PSALM 1:6

One thing hits me," Hanne said at last. "Each of these deaths in a sense is circumscribed by Maria." "What do you mean?" "The day Iselin died, Maria travelled to

Some people get dealt all the aces in life.

That if he were killed in the next few weeks, it would assuredly be near her. At her feet, in her bed. Inside of her. Unfortunately, that last thought just made him think that if he had to choose his final moments, being inside Charlotte would really be the way to go.

Change was Fate' the Romans said. well, Andreas loathed Fate, That Bitch.

Time is a blind guide.

Oh Lestat, you deserved everything that's ever happened to you. You better not die. You might actually go to hell.

Rats live on no evil star

Death, with one-eyed jack in his hand, makes a promise to the thirteenth child.

It was ordained. Just as the fates deal out the plague with a tarot card. Just as the Supreme Being drills holes in our skulls to let the Boston Symphony through.

I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get

But if you were Charlotte, and you had been feeling that life was some cosmic joke that had no punchline, and in the space of a moment you had gone from being Charlotte-without-a-kitten to being Charlotte-with-a-kitten, you too would have found it nothing short of remarkable.

The apprentice's name was Wolf, because sometimes the universe is an unsubtle place.

Left to our own devices, we will notice some of the bad luck but overlook most of the dumb luck.

Luck is what intervenes between your decision (which has a range of possible outcomes) and the outcome that you actually get. Because any decision determines only the set of possible outcomes (some good, some bad, some in between), this means good outcomes can result from both good and bad

The way our lives turn out is the result of two things: the influence of skill and the influence of luck.

When we field our outcomes as the future unfolds, we always run into this problem: the way things turn out could be the result of our decisions, luck, or some combination of the two.