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Quotes About Fate

We play out our days as we play out cards, taking them as they come, not knowing what they will be, hoping for a lucky card and sometimes getting one, often getting just the wrong one.
~ Samuel Butler
I am not now in fortune's power:He that is down can fall no lower.
~ Samuel Butler
In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
~ Samuel Butler
The major sin is the sin of being born.
~ Samuel Butler
It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs. Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four.
~ Samuel Butler
Death and dice level all distinction.
~ Samuel Foote
You have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something—your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever." The
~ Samuel H. Barondes
Inexorable etrangete! D'une vie mal defendue, rouler jusqu'aux des vifs du bonheur. How inexorably strange! In this shaky life, to throw even the quick dice of happiness. -Rene Char
~ Samuel Hazo
Shortest straw pulls the skunk's tail.
~ Samuel Hopkins Adams
Whoever shall review his life will find that the whole tenor of his conduct has been determined by some accident of no apparent moment.
~ Samuel Johnson
Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate,Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate?
~ 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
Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
~ Samuel Johnson
Persons who think there is no such thing as luckgood or badare entitled to their opinion, although I think they ought to be shot for it.
~ Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Úgy hozta hát a véletlen, hogy lássam a király lefejezését a White Hall udvarán, és lássam az els? vért is, amely a király megbosszulására kiontatott a Charing Crosson. Polcokat állítattam be dolgozószobámba.
~ Samuel Pepys
You are trapped in that bright moment where you learned your doom
~ Samuel R. Delany
Inside the Mouse, surprise opened like a wound over the inevitable.
~ Samuel R. Delany
Two years, I've been working towards this, and on the last day, Blondie has me doubting the whole thing. We'll leave it up to fate then, shall we, Wolfy? A duel to the death. May the best man win. I cut him down, and that's that. Back to our regularly scheduled international incident. But if he beats me... if I die here... the lock on my blade will disable after a couple hours. What happens after that... is up to you, Wolfy. [Sam to Blade Wolf]
~ Samuel Rodrigues
Removing a pebble is sometimes enough to change a destiny.
~ Samuel Sagan
Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I read somewhere that there are no accidents, just ideas trying to find us.
~ Sandi Toksvig
I play out the cards. They say: This is Heaven, this is Hell. It is one.
~ Sandra Gulland
Nasib memang diserahkan kepada manusia untuk digarap, tetapi takdir harus ditandatangani di atas materai dan tidak boleh digugat kalau nanti terjadi apa-apa, baik atau buruk.
~ Sapardi Djoko Damono
Nasib memang diserahkan kepada manusia untuk digarap, tetapi takdir harus ditandatangani di atas materai dan tidak boleh digugat kalau nanti terjadi apa-apa, baik atau buruk. Kata yang ada di Langit sana, kalau baik ya alhamdulillah, kalau buruk ya disyukuri saja. (20)
~ Sapardi Djoko Damono