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Quotes About Fate

We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
~ Vernon Howard
For a few minutes we kiss, deep in the chasm, with the roar of water all around us. And we rise, hand in hand, I realize that if we had both chosen differently, we might have ended up doing the same thing, in a safer place, in gray clothes instead of black ones.
~ Veronica Roth
Cinder's fate, thanks to Dr. MacElroy, was not so bleak. In fact, she was slated to be a working cat, an actress, so you may have seen her on movie and television screens, though the big cats rarely get decent credits. She may one day play the part of a lovable pet, and you may be moved to want a leopard. Don't do that. Leave the big cats alone.
~ Unknown
What caused the gods to fall upon my family like starved lions in a Roman arena?
~ Unknown
The important question is not 'Why was I saved?' but 'What will I do with the life that the gods decided to spare?'" I was taken aback by his intensity, especially since he always seemed so calm and unflappable. "You are a Stoic, then," I muttered, remembering Euphronius's lessons.
~ Unknown
Plans are what people make when Fate is sneaking up behind them,
~ Unknown
This is how Mortimer Tate ended up killing the first three human beings he'd laid eyes on in nearly a decade.
~ Unknown
I'd finally in up in jail for a murder I really did commit. Amazing how fate can work against us sometimes. We like the think we're the center of the Solar System, everything revolving around. More likely, we're the center of the vortex when we flush the toilet.
~ Unknown
They say if you dream a thing more than once, it's sure to come true, and I've seen him so many times.
~ Unknown
Golden lads and girls all must, like chimmney-sweepers, come to dust.
~ William Shakespeare
It is almost more important how a person takes his fate than what it is. And the best way is with gratitude while trying to improve it for the good of others and themselves.
~ Wilhelm von Humboldt
Frank had decided that whatever his fate was, he wouldn't worry about it. He would just do the best he could to help his friends.
~ Rick Riordan
Because it's his bad luck to be the best.
~ Thomas Harris
The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.
~ Voltaire
No, it is not only our fate but our business to lose innocence, and once we have lost that, it is futile to attempt a picnic in Eden.
~ Elizabeth Bowen
A missions conference is a business meeting to decide the fate of the heathen.
~ Dwight L. Moody
If I get a parking ticket, there is always a parallel universe where I didn't. On the other hand, there is yet another universe where my car was stolen.
~ Max Tegmark
Individuals do not meet by chance. They are necessary in the experiences of others, though they may not always use their opportunities in a spiritual way or manner.
~ Edgar Cayce
Nothing ever happens by chance; everything is pushed from behind.
~ Emily Murphy
Fate does not jest and events are not a matter of chance. There is no existence out of nothing.
~ Gamal Abdel Nasser
Synchronicity: A meaningful coincidence of two or more events where something other than the probability of chance is involved.
~ Carl Jung
Are we no greater than the noise we make Along one blind atomic pilgrimage Whereon by crass chance billeted we go Because our brains and bones and cartilage Will have it so?
~ Edwin Arlington Robinson
Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
~ William Shakespeare
There is irreducible chance in the universe.
~ David Gilmour