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Quotes About Fate

A trifle can be enough when luck is on your side.
~ Margi Preus, West of the Moon
He is where he is supposed to be. And yet the place he has found is also of his own choosing. That is a piece of luck not to be despised.
~ Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing
I am not sure if some people are luckier than others, but one thing's sure: right place, right time, you can define it however you want, some people get more opportunities than others.
~ Daya Kudari
People choose bad at first then say we are unlucky .
~ Muhammad Saqib
Luck is not fate. Believe it or not, it's largely an attitude.
~ Willis Turner
This guy was beyond lucky. He was Midas with a better attorney, or the owner of a Monkey's Paw version 2.0, or Richard Cory on Prozac.
~ John L. Monk, Kick
He just knew we would find luck, but believing something don't make it true.
~ Michael Lee West, American Pie
Good luck in a way is bad luck not occurring, but the world wants stories of how bad luck happened, and how good luck played a savior.
~ Daya Kudari
Luck is my middle name, " said Rincewind, indistinctly. "Mind you, my first name is Bad.
~ Terry Pratchett
A live broke man is 'luckier' than a dead rich man.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Behind bad luck comes good luck.
~ Gipsy Proverb
Sadness and love and pain, they're easy to feel- but not luck.
~ S.D. Crockett, After the Snow
Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish.
~ Ovid
Most of life is choices and the rest is pure dumb luck.
~ Marian Erickson
'Tis better to be fortunate than wise.
~ John Webster
In the queer mess of human destiny the determining factor is luck.
~ William E. Woodward
No writer should minimize the factor that affects everyone but is beyond control: luck.
~ John Jakes
Everything that happened to me happened by mistake. I don't believe in fate. It's luck timing and accident.
~ Merv Griffin
Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will but it didn't work for the rabbit!
~ Anonymous
Destiny is the invention of the cowardly and the resigned.
~ Ignazio Silone
This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares she never gives them. In some form or other we pay for her favors or we go empty away.
~ Amelia Barr
They who await no gifts from chance have conquered fate.
~ Matthew Arnold
The worst cynicism a belief in luck.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events because in herself she is nothing but is ruled by prudence.
~ John Dryden