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Quotes About Fate

In my beginning is my end.
~ T. S. Eliot
Luck affects everything. Let your hook be always cast. In the stream where you least expect it, there will be fish.
~ Ovid
The long arm of coincidence.
~ Anonymous
The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
~ Walter Scott
Decisions determine destiny.
~ Frederick Speakman
Choices are the hinges of destiny.
~ Edwin Markham
No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.
~ Agnes de Mille
We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
~ Dag Hammarskjold
What must be, shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles is little more than choice to him that is willing.
~ Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Come what come may, time and the hour runs through the roughest day.
~ William Shakespeare
Time brings all things to pass.
~ Aeschylus
I was born to other things.
~ Lord Alfred Tennyson
Great ability without discretion comes almost invariably to a tragic end.
~ Leon Gambetta
All I can do is play the game the way the cards fall.
~ James A. Michener
The word fate ... is the refuge of every self-confessed failure.
~ Andrew Soutar
Destiny is what you are supposed to do in life. Fate is what kicks you in the ass to make you do it.
~ Henry Miller
The bow is bent, the arrow flies, The winged shaft of fate.
~ Ira Aldridge
We make our fortunes and we call them fate.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
Though men determine, the gods do dispose: and oft times many things fall out between the cup and the lip.
~ Robert Greene
The die is cast.
~ Suetonius
The one who deals the mortal blow receives the mortal wound.
~ Maude Parker
Fortune makes him fool, whom she makes her darling.
~ Sir Francis Bacon
The bitter dregs of Fortune's cup to drain.
~ Homer