Quotes About Fate

He understood terrible purposes. They drove against all odds. They were their own necessity. Paul felt that he had been infected with terrible purpose. He did not know yet what the terrible purpose was.

When God hath ordained a creature to die in a particular place, He causeth that creature's wants to direct him to that place.

For them, 'mektub al mellah', as the Fremen say. The thing was written with salt, Irulan translated.

It is said of Muad'Dib that once when he saw a weed trying to grow between two rocks, he moved one of the rocks. Later, when the weed was seen to be flourishing, he covered it with the remaining rock. "That was its fate," he explained.

Review, friends—troops long past review," the Duke intoned. "All to fate a weight of pains and dollars. Their spirits wear our silver collars. Review, friends—troops long past review: Each a dot of time without pretense or guile. With them passes the lure of fortune. Review, friends—troops long past review. When our time ends on its rictus smile, we'll pass the lure of fortune.

Governments may rise and fall for reasons which appear insignificant, Prince. What small events! An argument between two women . . . which way the wind blows on a certain day . . . a sneeze, a cough, the length of a garment or the chance collision of a fleck of sand and a courtier's eye. It is not always the majestic concerns of Imperial ministers which dictate the course of history, nor is it necessarily the pontifications of priests which move the hands of God.

There are some things no one can bear. I meddled in all the possible futures I could create until, finally, they created me.

That girl! She was like a touch of destiny

You never talk of likelihoods on Arrakis. You speak only of possibilities.

I succumbed to the lure of the oracle , he thought. And he sensed that succumbing to this lure might be to fix himself upon a single-track life. Could it be, he wondered, that the oracle didn't tell the future? Could it be that the oracle made the future?

The Golden Path demands it. And what is the Golden Path? you ask. It is the survival of humankind, nothing more nor less. We

They'll call me Muad'Dib, 'The One Who Points the Way'.

the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error. Even

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.

Could it be, he wondered, that the oracle didn't tell the future? Could it be that the oracle made the future?

to know the future absolutely is to be trapped into that future absolutely. It collapses time. Present becomes future. I require more freedom than that." Jessica

Fate was sometimes inscrutable.

Paul felt that he had been infected with terrible purpose. He did not know yet what the terrible purpose was.

And that day dawned when Arrakis lay at the hub of the universe with the wheel poised to spin.

Choose a good worm," she said, giving him the Fremen words of parting

When our time ends on its rictus smile, we'll pass the lure of fortune.

The dark rectangle of a doorway appeared on his right - black in black: Otheym's house, Fate's house, a place different from the ones around it only in the role Time had chosen for it. It was a strange place to be marked down in history.

It is fate, Nayla thought. It is God's will. They were the same thing. A

No more terrible disaster could befall your people than for them to fall into the hands of a Hero.