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Quotes About Fate

Men plan. Fate Laughs. Guis Alera, First Lord
~ Jim Butcher
Three things characterize man: person, fate, merit--the harmony of these constitutes real grandeur.
~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to that path which nature has marked out for him.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Man, be he who he may, experiences a last piece of good fortune and a last day. [Ger., Der Mensch erfahrt, er sei auch wer er mag, Ein letztes Gluck und einen letzten Tag.]
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A man may twist as he pleases, and do what he pleases, but he inevitably comes back to the track to which nature has destined him.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Fortune, that with malicious joyDoes man her slave oppress,Proud of her office to destroy,Is seldom pleasd to bless.
~ John Dryden
An ill winde that bloweth no man to good.
~ John Heywood
Let no man seek Henceforth to be foretold that shall befall Him or his children.
~ John Milton
Some men ease themselves like setting hens into the nest of death.
~ John Steinbeck
Every single moment is a coincidence.
~ Douglas Coupland
Something my mom taught me when I was little is that everything happens for a reason.
~ Shawn Johnson
But you have to take control of your destiny. And sometimes that's not easy.
~ Mari Mancusi, Gamer Girl
I gotta die with money cuz i wasn't born with it
~ Lil Wayne
In love the heavens themselves do guide the state; Money buys lands, and wives are sold by fate.
~ William Shakespeare
If one did not have at least a little luck, one would never survive childhood. But luck can be spent, like money; and lost, like a memory; and wasted, like a life.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
It's amazing that no matter how much money you have, you can make some bad decisions, and in five months you're on the street, begging.
~ Paz de la Huerta
Money can't buy off the lightning.
~ Stephen King
It seemed to Fire it was rarely enough one knew a person one wished to marry. How unjust then to meet that person, and be kept from it because one's bed was made of hay and not feathers.
~ Kristin Cashore, Fire
When beautiful woman attracts money, she can't achieve a good end.
~ Kishore Bansal
The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, And heavily in clouds brings on the day, The great, the important day, big with the fate Of Cato and of Rome.
~ Joseph Addison
Like sweet morning dew I took one look at you And it was plain to see You were my destiny
~ Method Man
Sometimes you wake up in the morning and wish your parents had never met.
~ Bill Fitch
Yes, the first morning of creation wrote what the last dawn of reckoning shall read.
~ Omar Khayyam
A day dawns, quite like other days; in it, a single hour comes, quite like other hours; but in that day and in that hour the chance of a lifetime faces us.
~ Maltbie Davenport Babcock