Quotes About Fate

It is our fate, Thorgil said. In the spring look for us again, or if you don't find us, we'll meet in Valhalla. She looked away. Jack knew she had no real hope, or desire, now to go to Valhalla. ... Jack leaned over and took her hand. You are Jill Allyson's Daughter, he said, using the name Thorgil's dead mother had given her at birth. You are not meant for Ragnarok.

I never saw Sauveterre again and it was to be many years before I even heard his name, but in the end I found myself adopting his little boy, so small is the world, so strange is fate.

That was the day I most remember, now that I fly over battlefields and the screams of dying men echo up to me as fate falls like soot from my gray wings.

It started small, as such fates often do.

Fate sure has a funny way of messing up our well-ordered lives." As

So we are left with a stark choice: allow climate disruption to change everything about our world, or change pretty much everything about our economy to avoid that fate. But we need to be very clear: because of our decades of collective denial, no gradual, incremental options are now available to us. Gentle tweaks to the status quo stopped being a climate option when we supersized the American Dream in the 1990s, and then proceeded to take it global.

So we are left with a stark choice: allow climate disruption to change everything about our world, or change pretty much everything about our economy to avoid that fate.

Ask him: History knocked on your door, did you answer?

And so does pity lead straight to disaster.

Decidí que Orion debía morir cuando me salvó la vida por segunda vez.

He turned a cold certain look over them like the sweep of a scythe. "For however many of them will be left," he said.

We may meet again; the world is not after all so very large a place." He

Well, luck is nothing to sneeze at, either; we would not get very far if luck were against us

Nuestro sino es marcharnos [...]. No hemos de quedarnos para siempre.

I didn't want to die, and I didn't want to kill; I didn't want to go to death a murderer with bloody hands. I wanted that more than I didn't want to be a liar. But he was going to die anyway, die worse, and they would all die with him. There were a thousand ways to die, and not all of them were equally as bad.

I suppose I should've felt sorry for her, but I'd rather be sorry for someone who never had luck at all than for someone whose extreme luck ran out unexpectedly.

It should be remembered also that the outlook from the bottom is not so very bright or encouraging. It has a tendency to kill off ambition. We call it "getting into a rut," which means that we accept our fate because we form the HABIT of daily routine, a habit that finally becomes so strong we cease to try to throw it off.

The worn tired stars say you shall die early and die dirty. The clean cold stars say you shall die late and die clean. The runaway stars say you shall never die at all, never at all.

SONG OF THE MAN WHO WAS TO BE HUNG The thunders will take me home, whenever I mind to go home, my friends, and the wind it will take me home, too.

Man lives only to learn. And if he learns it is because it is the nature of his lot, for good or bad.

There are no second chances in life, except to feel remorse.

One loves truly only once in a lifetime, Julian, even if one isn't aware of it.

Some like to believe it's the book that chooses the person.

Julian once wrote that coincidences are the scars of fate. There are no coincidences, Daniel. We are puppets of our subconscious desires.