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Quotes About Fate

Time and chance reveal all secrets.
~ Delarivier Manley
Time is the ultimate equal opportunity employer.
~ Denis Waitley
No! no arresting the vast wheel of time, That round and round still turns with onward might, Stern, dragging thousands to the dreaded night Of an unknown hereafter.
~ Charles Cowden Clarke
You're young. Maybe there'll be time for a do-over if you don't get it right the first time. But there are no guarantees. There will come a time as it has for me when there's no time for a do-over.
~ Elizabeth Edwards
Our time on Earth is so random.
~ Lisa Ling
Look, I never wanted to be a half-blood. most of the time it gets you killed in nasty, dangerous ways.
~ Rick Riordan
It isn't up to me to break his heart; that's time's job.
~ Rick Yancey
Our time is fixed, and all our days are number'd; How long, how short, we know not:—this we know, Duty requires we calmly wait the summons, Nor dare to stir till Heaven shall give permission.
~ Robert Blair
Your lines, I maintain it, are poetry, and good poetry.... Friendship... had I been so blest as to have met with you in time, might have led me - God of love only knows where.
~ Robert Burns
It's unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.
~ Seneca the Younger
Nemo tam divos habuit faventes, Crastinum ut possit sibi polliceri. Nobody has ever found the gods so much his friends that he can promise himself another day.
~ Seneca the Younger
One day you will hear the sound of time rustling as it slips through your fingers like sand. Remember me then. I wish you luck.
~ Sergei Lukyanenko
Hopeless implies that at one time there was hope. And that's another word I don't understand. Hope only exists for people who have choices. [Zarek]
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
I went to get a detective story. You have to kill time. But time will kill me too - and there´s the true, preestablished balance.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
All the tragedies which we can imagine return in the end to the one and only tragedy: the passage of time.
~ Simone Weil
Time is the shower of Danae; each drop is golden.
~ Sophie Swetchine
If it's time for your character to go, it's time for your character to go - you know what I mean? That's it. It doesn't matter who you are.
~ Steve Schirripa
When it's time to stop living, I will certainly make Death my number one choice!
~ Terry Pratchett
This is where the gods play games with the lives of men, on a board which is at one and the same time a simple playing area and the whole world. And Fate always wins.
~ Terry Pratchett
He was in the right place at the right time, but he might have been elsewhere on a different afternoon.
~ Tony Gubba
Being an actor is like winning the lottery. It's not really about your talent, it's right time, right place, right face.
~ Vincent Kartheiser
Time will say nothing but I told you so.
~ W. H. Auden
Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet
~ Walter Scott
"Lambe them, lads! lambe them!" a cant phrase of the time derived from the fate of Dr. Lambe, an astrologer and quack, who was knocked on the head by the rabble in Charles the First's time.
~ Walter Scott