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Quotes About Fate

If I could meet you again, at a different time under different circumstances, I could let myself worship you the way you deserve.
~ Ann Brashares
If I could meet you again, at a different time under different circumstances, I could let myself worship you the way you deserve. But I can't now.
~ Ann Brashares
Is DNA destiny?
~ Ann Druyan
There exists a silken red thread of destiny. It is said that this magical cord may tangle or stretch but never break. When a child is born, that invisible red thread connects the child's soul to all the people - past, present, and future - who will play a part in that child's life. Over time, that thread shortens and tightens, bringing closer and closer those people who are fated to be together.
~ Ann Hood
If I could trace a single line below the surface of my assumptions, would there come a point when clarity supersedes the chaos of what has been? The tragic sense of destiny is inherent in every man; but I defy fate, I alone am responsible for every action, every scene; in my nothingness I will create the idea, I shall see what I have imagined, and from that alone will spring my entire actions.
~ Ann Quin
Either our wills are determined by prior causes and we are not responsible for them, or they are the product of chance and we are not responsible for them.
~ Sam Harris
Either our wills are determined by prior causes and we are not responsible for them, or they are the product of chance and we are not responsible for them. If
~ Sam Harris
Who knows, he may grow up to be President someday, unless they hang him first! Aunt Polly about Tom Sawyer
~ Samuel Clemmons
Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
~ Samuel Johnson
How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure. Still to ourselves in every place consign'd, Our own felicity we make or find:
~ Samuel Johnson
Of all the griefs, that harass the distressed, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest; Fate never wounds more deep the generous heart, Than
~ Samuel Johnson
Of all the griefs, that harass the distressed, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest; Fate never wounds more deep the generous heart, Than when a blockhead's insult points the dart.   Has
~ Samuel Johnson
How small of all that human hearts endure That part which laws or kings can cuse or cure!
~ Samuel Johnson
We're only given one life, and it's the one we live, she had thought; how painful now, to realize that wasn't true, that you would have different lives, depending on how brave you were, and how ready.
~ Samuel Park
Swans sing before they die— 't were no bad thing Should certain persons die before they sing.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
~ I shot the ALBATROSS.
Why look'st thou so?'— With my cross-bow I shot the ALBATROSS.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Instead of the cross, the Albatross About my neck was hung.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
God, it's so stupid the way I see my life, see all my existence as if there's some magic out there waiting just for me.
~ Sandi Kahn Shelton
cosmic puppeteer might be listening
~ Sandra Brown
circumstance
~ Sandra Brown
Hoot, the odds are good that we're going to locate bones, and that'll be all that's left of those ladies who had futures, dreams, and people who loved them. Now, can you look at the faces in those pictures and still whine about a little bad weather? Hmm?
~ Sandra Brown
At last he had risen to hold forth tragically about the misfortune that it was to be alive.
~ Sandra Newman
There most always be hope. Fate always leaves a hope somewhere, and I intend to find it.
~ Sara Douglass