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Quotes About Fate

It's as if my footprints were already on the road before I even got there.I walk into them, my waiting footprints.
~ Jackie Kay
One day she asked the hare why he had come to her, of all people. 'Some questions,' he replied 'are better left unanswered. A there will come a time wen you will have need of me. Then yo will know.
~ Unknown
One day she asked the hare why he had come to her, of all people. 'Some questions,' he replied 'are better left unanswered. And there will come a time when you will have need of me. Then you will know.
~ Unknown
Queen Mary was very beautiful, but she was very unfortunate and unhappy.
~ Jacob Abbott
The fate of the grand empire which Genghis Khan established was the same with that of all others that have arisen in the world, from time to time, by the extension of the power of great military commanders over widely-separated and heterogeneous nations. The sons and successors to whom the vast possessions descended soon quarreled among themselves, and the immense fabric fell to pieces in less time than it had taken to construct it.
~ Jacob Abbott
Surely if we knew what bitterness fate held in store, we would shrink back in fear and let the cup of life pass us by untasted.
~ Jacqueline Carey
One after the other, they were buried under that sky and neither they nor I knew if it was the one under which we'd been born.
~ Jacqueline Harpman
The reality is not always our destiny.
~ Jacqueline Job
This is the goddess Fortuna. She brought luck - or took it away. But you'd put up with whatever she did. Because when she decided to favour you, it made everything worthwhile
~ Jacqueline Rayner
Coincidence is a messenger sent by truth.
~ Jacqueline Winspear
Coincidence is a messenger sent by the truth." [Dr. Maurice Blanche]
~ Jacqueline Winspear
He went way up in the air and when he came down again, he got up and ran away. But he stopped at the corner, Angel says. And died.
~ Jacqueline Woodson
I've loved you since the first moment I saw you," he said at last, the words rushed and full of rolling emotions. "Sitting there in powder blue and waiting for your killer so you could turn the table and slaughter his heart instead." - Guin (Pleasure)
~ Jacquelyn Frank
You believe in Destiny, don't you?" "Yes," said Leah quietly. "Then you have to believe that things happen for a reason, and even if you change something. Destiny will find a way to fulfill her needs." - Jasmine
~ Jacquelyn Frank
There are no coincidences. If something happens and we don't understand the reason, that doesn't mean there is no reason. It means that the reason will later be revealed, likely not in this life.
~ Jacquelyn Mitchard
Nothing better for the hormones and worse for the heart than the right boy at the right time.
~ Jacquelyn Mitchard
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
~ Jacques Delille
Our fate is shaped from within ourselves outward, never from without inward.
~ Unknown
Armed with all the powers, enjoying all the wealth they owe to science, our societies are still trying to practice and to teach systems of values already destroyed at the roots by that very science. Man knows at last that he is alone in the indifferent immensity of the universe, whence which he has emerged by chance. His duty, like his fate, is written nowhere.
~ Jacques Monod
Death is the only reality, for it is the only certainty, inevitable to all things.
~ Jamaica Kincaid
It is sad that unless you are born a god, your life,from its very beginning, is a mystery to you.
~ Jamaica Kincaid
At the end of the game the king and the pawn go in the same box.
~ James A. Murphy III
You've got to bear it in mind that nobody ever lived is specially privileged; the axe can fall at any moment, on any neck, without any warning or any regard for justice.
~ James Agee
Fate does not invite ugly boring people to save the world; and if you do try to save the world (without being beautiful, strong, clever, or wise), you will soon die pointlessly and how much adventure is there in that?
~ James Alan Gardner