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Quotes About Fate

There is no doubt such a thing as chance, but I see no reason why Providence should not make use of it.
~ William Gilmore Simms
Chance is a second master.
~ Pliny the Elder
How slight a chance may raise or sink a soul!
~ Philip James Bailey
Either our wills are determined by prior causes and we are not responsible for them, or they are the product of chance and we are not responsible for them.
~ Sam Harris
There's good chances and bad chances, and nobody's luck is pulled only by one string.
~ George Eliot
Necessity and chance Approach not me, and what I will is fate.
~ John Milton
We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.
~ Gloria Estefan
You don't get second chances in the real world.
~ Gail Simmons
We all got up to dance. Oh, but we never got the chance!
~ Don McLean
I never stood a chance. He stole your heart first.
~ Abbi Glines
We live by choice, not by chance.
~ Hal Urban
One lot apiece, one chance to undo an error or secure a fate.
~ Janet Morris
Random chance is not sufficient to explain random chance. ~Jubal Harshaw
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Chance. Stupid, dumb, blind chance. Just a part of the strange mechanism of the world, with its fits and coughs and starts and random collisions.
~ Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
For existential mathematics, which does not exist, would probably propose this equation: the value of coincidence equals the degree of its improbability.
~ Milan Kundera
Your will cannot always choose the path; very often the route is determined by chance or by the will of others.
~ Fausto Cercignani
I believe in fate, never in chance.
~ George MacDonald
She took a deep breath, "Last chance. Are you in need of rescuing?" His expression turned very strange, almost as if she'd struck him, "yes," he said finally. -Tana and Gavriel-page 33- chapter 5
~ Holly Black
When the moment comes, will you take your chance to be a hero?
~ Eoin Colfer
This feather stirs; she lives! if it be so, it is a chance which does redeem all sorrows that ever I have felt.
~ William Shakespeare
There is no sense in loving someone you can never wake up to except by chance.
~ Jeanette Winterson
So he lived, not knowing and not seeing any chance of knowing what he was and for what purpose he had been placed in the word.
~ Leo Tolstoy
The company you keep at death is, of all things, most dependent on chance.
~ Keri Hulme
The twin gods, Necessity and Chance, walked among the stars. What needed to be, was; what might be, sometimes was.
~ Rachel Hartman