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Quotes About Fate

There is a destiny that makes us brothers: None goes his way alone: All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.
~ Edwin Markham
There is a destiny which makes us brothers; none goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.
~ Edwin Markham
Choices are the hinges of destiny
~ Edwin Markham
There is a destiny that makes us brother. None goes his way alone. All that we wend into the lives of others, comes back into our own.
~ Edwin Markham
Lord Sanquire was hanged in the days of James I. for the revengeful murder of an "Alsatian " master named Turner, who had accidentally put out his eye.
~ Egerton Castle
As nature each one born equal, the world divides that into the classes for its motives. It is not a mistake; one born and die rich or poor. It is one's fate since the world runs with it.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Character is not a destiny; it is such a nature, which can decide and change that.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Every Birth brings its Death with it; no one can escape from it.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Every start has an end since its result, whether it is happy or sad.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Generally, accurate decisions on accurate time determine the expected outcome accurately; otherwise, failure and sorry become destiny.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Life is such a chance that lies in your hands; beautify and enjoy or lose and regret.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Your life naturally travels at various risks that you neither see nor realize.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
I can only bow to the will of the heaven, but not to the will of these men.
~ Eiji Yoshikawa
Still, in a fight like that, you never know. There's a superhuman element involved. All warriors have to face it; winning or losing is partly a matter of luck.
~ Eiji Yoshikawa
Lord Karasumaru considered it a grave mistake on the part of the gods to have made a man like himself a nobleman. And, though a servant of the Emperor, he saw only two paths open to him: to live in constant misery or to spend his time carousing. The sensible choice was to rest his head on the knees of a beautiful woman, admire the pale light of the moon, view the cherry blossoms in season and die with a cup of sake in his hand.
~ Eiji Yoshikawa
I seem to hear thousands of voices--the voices of the common folk in the marketplace--urging me to go forward and do what must be done. More is at stake now than my life. On me turns the future of the warriors. Let's not quibble longer, lest this rare opportunity slip through my fingers.
~ Eiji Yoshikawa
Aquí estoy yo, viejo...¿No fuisteis vos quien me dijo una vez que yo era hijo del cielo y de la tierra con un cuerpo sano? Aquí está ese hijo. ¿Por qué tenemos que contar con la suerte?
~ Eiji Yoshikawa
You meet the one you meet amongst thousands and tens of thousands of people, amidst thousands and tens of thousands of years, in the boundless wilderness of time, not a step sooner, not a step later. You chance upon each other, not saying much, only asking softly, "Oh, you are here, also?
~ Eileen Chang
Her voice, her smile, her every gesture was utterly familiar to him: these traces of her presence had danced in his dreams for years, and now he beheld them with waking eyes. Fate is cruel, but it's a cruelty that suffuses sweetness into the suffering.
~ Eileen Chang
Is loving someone enough? he wondered. Or is God like Stromboli, making us think we're in control of our fate while turning us all into jackasses?
~ Eileen Goudge
Death cuts off possibilities. Even if they were possibilities you never meant to act on, it feels different when they're gone.
~ Eileen Wilks
Og ástin blómstrar – eða fölnar. Það er ekkert ljós án skugga, engin hamingja án óhamingju. Ástin kemur alltaf við sögu.
~ Einar Már Guðmundsson
To find Mr. Darcy, she would have to go back in time… – Isobella Douglas
~ Elaine Coffman
Fate was playing my hand for me and for once in my life I knew better than not to go ahead and let it.
~ Elaine Dundy