Quotes About Fate

Luck can be bad as well as good,

A real ninja doesn't leave things in the hands of fate and destiny. They create their own destiny.

Wells played God in the most elemental way: Who shall live and who shall die, who shall reach the end of his days and who shall not, who by water and who by fire, who by sword and who by beast . . . But snatching the world's secrets from their graves gave Shafer his own taste of absolute power.

Their point of departure is different and their paths diverse; nevertheless, each seems called by some secret design of Providence one day to hold in its hands the destinies of half the world. (on Russia and America)

You will wake only if kissed by a young man who is truly your love, truly your destiny, one who would walk miles and face torturous tests to find you.

It may not seem that way, but sometimes, things work out for the best

To bare our souls is all we ask, to give all we have to life and the beings surrounding us. Here the nature spirits are intense and we appreciate them, make offerings to them - these nature spirits who call us here - sealing our fate with each other, celebrating our love.

Time alone will tell the future, but fate shall always have her way.

The sinking of the Titanic has made me indescribably happy; there is, after all, an ocean.

And the gods did not kill for hubris-for hubris, they let you live long enough to learn.

Nothing to fear from a fate that was already yours, then, except, perhaps, that it would never leave you.

And I would tell him, as we rise into the air, The curse is not that we cannot choose our Fates. The curse, the curse we all live under, is that we can.

the fate of an empire in many respects the most interesting in the world.

No one is to blame. It is neither their fault nor ours. It is the misfortune of being born when a whole world is dying.

Holy shadows of the dead, Im not to blame for your cruel and bitter fate, but the accursed rivalry which brought sister nations and brother people, to fight one another. I do not feel happy for this victory of mine. On the contrary, I would be glad, brothers, if I had all of you standing here next to me, since we are united by the same language, the same blood and the same visions.

One place like another. That was true enough, he thought. Even the merchant seamen were the same. Every ship was the last. One more voyage, just enough pay and bounty saved, and it would be used to buy a little alehouse, a chandlery, a smallholding from some country squire. But it never seemed to happen, unless the man was thrown on the beach in peacetime, or rejected as a useless cripple. The sea always won in the end. The

Once we give up our true self to play a role, we are fated to be rejected because we have already rejected ourselves. Yet we will struggle to make the role more successful, hoping to overcome our fate but finding ourselves more enmeshed in it. We are caught in a vicious cycle that keeps closing in, diminishing our life and being.

But thousands die without or this or that, die, and endow a college, or a cat: To some, indeed, Heaven grants the happier fate, Tenrich a bastard, or a son they hate.

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

Who sees with equal eye, as God of all,A hero perish or a sparrow fall,Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd,And now a bubble burst, and now a world.

But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?

And binding Nature fast in fate,Left free the human will.

But thousands die, without or this or that,Die, and endow a college, or a cat.

Astrologers that future fates foreshow.