It seemed as if some subtle current of recognition had passed between them… not as if they had met before… but as if they had come close several times until finally an impatient Fate had...

That is life, isn’t it? Fate. Luck. Chance. A long series of what-if’s that lead from one moment to the next, time never pausing for you to catch your breath, to make sense of the...

It was that evening, when my mother abdicated her authority, that marked the beginning, along with the slow death of my grandmother, of the decline of my will and of my health. Everything had been...

Everything in Tom’s cathedral looked as if it was meant to be. Perhaps her life was like that, everything foreordained in a grand design, and she was like a foolish builder who wanted a waterfall...

It is true. Indeed, that is why I dared not speak. I have yearned to be again at the side of my beloved Arianllyn, and my thoughts are with her now. But had I chosen...

I really believe that there is an invisible red thread tied between him and me, and that it has stretched and tangled for years — across oceans and lifetimes. I know that it won’t break...

You won’t understand this now, Saira. Later, perhaps. When you are older. When you learn that life is not only about the choices you make. That some of them will be made for you.

sometimes what you have planned, is nothing like the plan your soul invited you, to this earth for.

‎Destiny finds those who listen, and fate finds the rest.

You know, sometimes even when two people love each other the universe still conspires against them, forces them apart.

To fate and the strange way that it twists us all together.

Fate is a funny thing, isn’t it?

honestly i don’t understand the rousing of romance all that well. i used to believe in this thing called fate, or destiny. a romantic romeo and juliet, monet and veronica, etc. but now i feel...

Many men would take the death-sentence without a whimper, to escape the life-sentence which fate carries in her other hand.

Those who live in the country get idiotic in time, without noticing it, for a while they think it’s original and good for their health, but life in the country is not original at all,...

We are all subject to the fates. But we must act as if we are not, or die of despair.

Maybe not. But I think we can escape what other people try to make of us. We can decide our fate for ourselves.

If it be now, ’tis not to come. If it be not to come, it will be now. If it be not now, yet it will come—the readiness is all.

All live and die believing that they have known love, thinking it is a common thing, because they confuse it with animal satisfaction; but love is a privilege, love is a lottery of fate, like...

Consider One Thing Always, We Are Just Selected”.

But Fate does iron wedges drive,And always crowds itself betwixt.

I asked Hillary why she had chosen Yale Law School over Harvard. She laughed and said, “Harvard didn’t want me.” I said I was sorry that Harvard turned her down. She replied, “No, I received...

My dreams may be nonsense too,but I do not want to run the risk of not following them

Fate’s arrow, when expected, travels slow.

Wanaume hupenda nyama kwenye mifupa.

Don’t try to present your art by making other people read or hear or see or touch it; make them feel it. Wear your art like your heart on your sleeve and keep it alive...

Just let your hand drop; and let fate decide for you.

You can no more look destiny in the face than you can look at the sun, and yet destiny is grey

Against FateHey, Fate! When you fail a man, you spendall your time digging a well to trap him.Then you untie the well’s wheel rope so that it can roll.And you keep the poor mortal struggling...

It’s a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe.

You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve.

He deserved a much better fate.

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.

Faith in God, reverence of a Creator!

The gene contains a single ‘word’, repeated over and over again: CAG, CAG, CAG, CAG … The repetition continues sometimes just six times, sometimes thirty, sometimes more than a hundred times. Your destiny, your sanity...

God’s word is lamp that lights my path.

No one is adequate to comprehending the misery of my lot! Fate obliges me to be constantly in movement: I am not permitted to pass more than a fortnight in the same place. I have...

Thus the ‘fortune-teller’ is trying to foresee something that is really quite unforeseeable. This is characteristic of all forms of foreseeing. And precisely because what they ‘see’ is so vague, it is hard to repudiate...

The best things that happen I’d never have thought to pray for. In a million years. The worst things just come like the weather.

RELIGION OR COUNTRYOur allegiance may determine the fate of others

He was angry; not as the irritable, from chafing of a trifle; nor was his anger like the fool’s, pumped from the wells of nothing, to be dissipated by a reproach or a curse; it...

There are things which cannot be carried through even with the good will of everybody concerned

He looked at me, that first day, like he had just found something he’d lost a thousand years ago.

When it comes to life, we spin our own yarn, and where we end up is really, in fact, where we always intended to be.

Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to fill the roles given you by good people, by people who love you.

Nietzsche was the one who did the job for me. At a certain moment in his life,the idea came to him of what he called ‘the love of your fate.’ Whatever your fate is, whatever...

Life is indeed a gamble, the ultimate game of chance, based purely upon having the ability to make the right choices at the right time. You never win or lose in life if you realise...

The best luck always happens to people who don’t need it.

If it had been a great necessity, if it had been contingents of an army meeting to overwhelm the enemy by stealth, it might not have worked out so neatly. But fate it would seem...

Ducunt volentem fata, nolentem trahunt.