Quotes About Fate

Poor Mr Lippincote could not help dying. Death does not always give us a chance of tidying up. (118)

If I am very lucky - I mean if I am clever about it - I will get myself shot. Here, soon.

It never occurred to him that now he was looking at his master, at the one person in all the world who held his fate right between her palms - me, in patched hand-me-downs and untrimmed hair and idiot smile - and that my hatred for him is pure and black and unforgiving. And that I don't believe in God, but if I did, if I did, it would be the God of Moses, angry and demanding and OUT FOR REVENGE...

it never occurred to him that now he was looking at his master, at the one person in all the world who held his fate right between her palms-- me, in patched hand-me-downs and untrimmed hair and idiot smile-- and that my hatred for him is pure and black and unforgiving.

There's glory and honor in being chosen. But not much room for free will.

Lucky for me I didn't know. Why lucky for her? Not lucky for the people she was protecting, but lucky for Ró?a. She didn't have to choose.

Like the winds of the sea are the winds of fate As we voyage along through life, Tis the set of the soul That decides its goal And not the calm or the strife.

One ship drives east and another drives west With the selfsame winds that blow. Tis the set of the sails And not the gales Which tells us the way to go. Like the winds of the seas are the ways of fate, As we voyage along through the life: Tis the set of a soul That decides its goal, And not the calm or the strife.

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, Can circumvent or hinder or control The firm resolve of a determined soul.

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.

and everybody in it will die, including you and your girlfriend.

You trusted you would die soon enough, though you would do your damndest not to.

Well, he would never understand. His life had been everything he wanted, whereas she had gotten on the wrong train, all those years ago.

fairy tales are about ordinary men and women in extraordinary circumstances.

Once upon a time there was what there was, and if nothing had happened there would be nothing to tell.

On a bleak day in April, just before the first crocuses broke through the sodden gray of autumn leaves, Ann, that was her name, Krey's love, got Stage 1 of Dying Stupidly. A scratch from a squirrel she was feeding got infected. Some days later, they gave her penicillin. Then they put her in the hospital where she got streptococcal pneumonia. From scratch to burial took a month.

Sometimes, someone comes unexpectedly into your life, takes you by surprise, and changes your heart forever.

Happiness, you see, its just an illusion of Fate, a heavenly sleight of hand designed to make you believe in fairy tales. But there's no happily ever after. You'll only find happy endings in books. Some books.

I have had just about enough of other guys trying to turn you, Raven. There is only one vampire who will," he said confidently. "The one who you were always meant for-me.

Some people spend all their lives searching for their soul mates.

When I was nine, in the city now called Kyoto, I changed my fate. I walked into the shrine through the red arch and struck the bell. I bowed twice. I clapped twice. I whispered to the foreign goddess and bowed again. And then I heard the shouts and the fire. What I asked for? Any life but this one.

Why was I standing on the street when the window feel out of the building? Why did the bus run over me? Because it was my turn in the barrel, that's why.

Fate was working its ass off when it got us all together.