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Quotes About Fate

We meet the people we're supposed to when the time is just right.
~ Alyson Noel
Remember: Matter: how tiny your share of it. Time: how brief and fleeting your allotment of it. Fate: how small a role you play in it.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Accidents happen all the time.
~ Daniel Handler
Some things arrive in their own mysterious hour, on their own terms and not yours, to be seized or relinquished forever.
~ Gail Godwin
God gives each his due at the time allotted.
~ Euripides
Time's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave.
~ William Shakespeare
Death never comes at the right time, despite what mortals believe. Death always comes like a thief.
~ Christopher Pike
I was born human. But this was an accident of fate - a condition merely of time and place. I believe it's something we have the power to change.
~ Kevin Warwick
And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
~ John Dryden
Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows.
~ Siegfried Sassoon
I wonder if things can happen too early or too late or if everything happens at exactly the right time. If so, how sad and beautiful.
~ Simon Van Booy
That double-headed monster of damnation and salvation--Time.
~ Samuel Beckett
Let us then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate, Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I wasn't campaigning for a role in a Hollywood television series, it was a fluke. So you've got to have a measure of good luck, you really have, being in the right place at the right time.
~ Patrick Stewart
Things happen for a reason, and in their own time.
~ Idina Menzel
Nothing comes ahead of its time, and nothing ever happened that didn't need to happen.
~ Byron Katie
Destiny's Champion, Fate's fool. Eternity's Soldier, Time's Tool.
~ Michael Moorcock
You can make the Ring into an allegory of our own time, if you like: and allegory of the inevitable fate that waits for all attempts to defeat evil power by power.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
From time to time there are going to be things that occur that are acts of God that cannot be prevented.
~ Rick Perry
You can kill time or kill yourself, it comes to the same thing in the end.
~ Elsa Triolet
Everything happens for a reason, everything is part of a puzzle that, even at the time, if we don't understand the bigger picture, everything has significant role in what's to come in the future.
~ Jon Connor
Hey Nana, do you remember the first time we met? I beleive in things like fate. So I think it was fate.
~ Ai Yazawa
A day may sink or save a realm.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.
~ William Butler Yeats