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Quotes About Fate

There is a nick in Fortune's restless wheel For each man's good.
~ George Chapman
Life's a lottery, and man should make up his mind to the blanks.
~ George Colman the Elder
Old men go to Death, Death comes to Young men.
~ George Herbert
Now he had recognized himself as a dead man it became important to stay alive as long as possible.
~ George Orwell
Every man must die, Jon Snow. But first he must live.
~ George R. R. Martin
If the day comes when you would find me again, give that coin to any man from Braavos, and say these words to him--valar morghulis.
~ George R. R. Martin
Every man is the maker of his own fortune
~ Gertrude Stein
A man cannot deserve adventures; he cannot earn dragons and hippogriffs.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
One man sees a riselka: his life forks there. Two men see a riselka: one of them shall die. Three men see a riselka: one is blessed, one forks, one shall die.
~ Guy Gavriel Kay
...even though you said yes to the wrong man, I hope that won't cause you to say no to the right one.
~ Lisa Kleypas
Fortune blinds men when she does not wish them to withstand the violence of her onslaughts.
~ Livy
For the deeds of a man, not the words of a prophecy, are what shape his destiny.
~ Lloyd Alexander
The destinies of men are woven one with the other, and you can turn aside from them no more than you can turn aside from your own.
~ Lloyd Alexander
Because sometimes, a man could do nothing about where he came from, he could only control where he went
~ Lora Leigh
Perhaps the early grave Which men weep over may be meant to save.
~ Lord Byron
Man is the maker of his own destiny, and I therefore ask you to become makers of your own destiny.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
That which makes man the mere plaything of fate is God.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
People can't do much about the fate part, but we can certainly do a lot about the man part.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
There is no man so fortunate that there shall not be by him when he is dying some who are pleased with what is going to happen.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Perfect young men don't get murdered, they don't even get born.
~ Margaret Millar
Sift each of us through the great sieve of circumstance and you have a residue, great or small as the case may be, that is the man or the woman.
~ Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Man proposes, but God blocks the game.
~ Mark Twain
Every man carries the seed of his own death, and you will not be more than a man. You will have everything; you cannot have more.
~ Mary Stewart
Fate isn't some middle-aged man with a squint who won't recognize you if you change your clothes.
~ Meg Rosoff