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Quotes About Fate

What will happen will happen, whether you know of it or not. Believe me, it is not always better to know." "Knowing must be better," Shigeru said. "Then no one can take you by surprise." "Someone will always take you by surprise, because no matter how much you know, you can never know everything.
~ Takashi Matsuoka
My doom was sealed when I saw a girl turn cartwheels at a circus in Birmingham.
~ Tallulah Bankhead
You cannot NOT be what you were destined to become.
~ Tamaey Gottuso
We all believe we are in complete control. When really, we do not know the beginning, middle or end.
~ Tammy Kling
There was a time when I believed I was the redeemed one, the boy borne safely home on the ebb of whatever freak tide carried Peter and Jamie away. Not any more. In ways too dark and crucial to be called metaphorical, I never left that wood.
~ Tana French
Some people should never meet.
~ Tana French
Do you see now why I believe in miracles? I used to imagine time folding over, the shades of our future selves slipping back to the crucial moments to tap each of us on the shoulder and whisper: Look, there, look! That man, that woman: they're for you; that's your life, your future, fidgeting in the line, dripping on the carpet, shuffling in that doorway. Don't miss it.
~ Tana French
I suppose I've always had a yearning, in spite of the fact that I am temperamentally unsuited to the role in every possible way, to be a hero out of myth, golden and reckless, galloping bareback to meet my fate on a wild horse no other man could ride.
~ Tana French
I reckon it was always going to happen, one way or another. She wasn't made right for this world. She'd been running away from it since she was nine.
~ Tana French
Some stuff is gonna find a way to happen; once it's got started, you can't stop it no matter what you do.
~ Tana French
Whatever people do, right up to killing, nature absorbs it, closes over the fissure and goes on about its own doings. He can't tell whether this is a comforting thing or a melancholy one.
~ Tana French
The button developed a life of its own, swollen with symbolism, a single chance at salvation pulsing redly in the corner and if I blew it too soon or left it too late then I was lost.
~ Tana French
I've been trying not to say it out loud because I don't want to jinx it. Like a dumb kid; like one of those moaners who believe the universe has it in for them and everything is just looking for an excuse to turn to shite.
~ Tana French
I felt different, changing. Like today was my day, if I could just figure out how. Like danger, but my danger, sweet tricky urgent luck, tumbling through the air, heads or tails?
~ Tana French
All that is implicit in her, curled unimagined inside her bones; but so are hundreds of other latent lives, unchosen and easily vanished as whisks of light.
~ Tana French
And even if I somehow didn't: I had killed someone, and I always would have. It was always going to be like this. There was no undoing this, no talking my way out, no fixing it or apologizing it away, no smoothing off the sharp edges or planing it down so it could be tucked away into some smaller, manageable box. Instead it would grind me away till I fit around its own immutable shape.
~ Tana French
Aldridge, c'est le temps qui lui reste à vivre. Tous les événements d'une vie sont connectés. Notre vie, à tout moment, est la somme de tous nos actes et de tous les lieux où nous nous sommes rendus. Nos décisions déterminent non seulement où notre vie prendra fin, mais aussi la personne que nous devenons en
~ Tanya Anne Crosby
Feel certain that I will die of sudden and incurable obesity within the next week
~ Tao Lin
But here they were, despite death and everything, sitting in a car. If this was fate, she was buying.
~ Tara Janzen
How we live our lives does not,unfortunately depend on us alone.Circumstances,good or bad,constantly intervene.A person close to us die.A person not so close to us carries on living.All these things affect how we live.
~ Tariq Ali
Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.
~ Tasha Alexander
He who submits to fate without complaint is wise.
~ Tasha Alexander
views on Hector v. Achilles and cannot agree. Hector is what man can strive to become; Achilles
~ Tasha Alexander
Mors ultima linea rerum est. Death is everything's final limit.
~ Tasha Alexander