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Quotes About Fate

The simple rule: some get saved, but most don't. The choices are important before the years begin to go so very fast.
~ Jill McCorkle
Did you really save the world ?... - Mostly I was saving my own ass. Just happend that the world was in the same spot.
~ Jim Butcher
I'm not a philosopher, Harry, [Michael] said. But here's something for you to think about, at least. What goes around comes around. And sometimes you get what's coming around. He paused for a moment, frowning faintly, pursing his lips. And sometimes you are what's coming around.
~ Jim Butcher
Men plan. Fate Laughs.
~ Jim Butcher
I'd hate to find out that the universe really wasn't conspiring against me. It would jerk the rug out from under my persecution complex.
~ Jim Butcher
So really, it was just as well that Godmother had caught up to me, in spite of my best efforts to avoid her. I'd hate to find out that the universe really wasn't conspiring against me. It would jerk the rug out from under my persecution complex. -Harry
~ Jim Butcher
Kid. You just made the last mistake of your life.' 'God,' I said. 'I wish .
~ Jim Butcher
It's just one hour. Just one little hour. What could happen in one hour?
~ Jim Butcher
A bunch of people are gonna be mad at me, I've got some kind of medical issue that's going to kill me in a while if I don't deal with it, oh, and the island's blowing up tomorrow and taking a whole lot of the country with it if I don't fix it." Thomas gave me a steady look. "So," he said. "Same old, same old.
~ Jim Butcher
Got to die of something, Giraldi observed. Might as well put back a few pints while you wait to see what it is.
~ Jim Butcher
You beg fate to make your fears into reality, Aleran. But for the moment, they are only fears. They may come. If so, then face them and overcome them. Until then, pay them no mind. You have enough to think on.
~ Jim Butcher
What goes round comes around. And sometimes you get what's coming around. And sometimes you ARE what's coming around.
~ Jim Butcher
Sometimes I thought it might be nice not to make any choices. If I never had one, I could never screw it up.
~ Jim Butcher
And since when had I become the guy that things happened to ten years ago?
~ Jim Butcher
Faith in what?" "That things will unfold as they are meant to," Forthill said. "That even in the face of an immediate ugliness, the greater picture will resolve into something all the more beautiful.
~ Jim Butcher
I am disturbed by the presence of inordinate levels of coincidence
~ Jim Butcher
Your death doesn't belong to me. We flipped a coin. I lost.
~ Jim Butcher
dredged up a quote from someone I rarely agreed with about anything. "What's the point of free will, if not to spit in the eye of destiny?
~ Jim Butcher
Death by nursery tale. Hell's bells.
~ Jim Butcher
Speak, then, manling," said Mother Winter. "You have a little time left.
~ Jim Butcher
Faith, Harry. God has a way of seeing to it that things fall into place.
~ Jim Butcher
It's one hour. Just one little hour. What could happen in one hour?" And that's how I knew that Mort was telling the whole truth when he said he wasn't a hero. Heroes know better than to hand the universe lines like that.
~ Jim Butcher
I'd hate to find out that the universe really wasn't conspiring against me. It would jerk the rug out from under my persecution complex.
~ Jim Butcher
What goes around comes around. And sometimes you get what's coming around." He paused for a moment, frowning faintly, pursing his lips. "And sometimes you are what's coming around. You see what I mean?
~ Jim Butcher