For fate may hang on any moment and at any moment be changed.

Freedom is what we do; fate is what happens to us.

Such sentences always end in silence, no matter how they may begin–indeed, this is the very essence of fate: that which we never quite manage to say.

Have you ever noticed that when your mind is awakened or drawn to someone new, that person’s name suddenly pops up everywhere you go? My friend Sophie calls it coincidence, and Mr. Simpless, my parson...

We cannot prepare our fate, but we can stir it up.

We come from long lines of people destined never to meet.

Since Alice had never received any religious instruction, and since she had led a blameless life, she never thought of her awful luck as being anything but accidents in a very busy place. Good for...

I’m not absolutely certain of the facts, but I rather fancy it’s Shakespeare who says that it’s always just when a fellow is feeling particularly braced with things in general that Fate sneaks up behind...

I tried to push my body through his and completely disappear.

Suddenly Ka realized he was in love with İpek. And realizing that this love would determine the rest of his life, he was filled with dread.

Life shows us all colours, some bright and some shades of grey,Some accept with a smile, while some frown in every wayThoughts and memories never end but life does one day.Whole age passes by in...

I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your ruin, and to the ruin of our children. I give you this warning that you...

Fate Decides your future if you don’t intervene.

Coincidences mean you’re on the right path.

Fate is the same for the man who holds back, the same if he fights hard.We are all held in a single honour, the brave with the weaklings.A man dies still if he has done...

…the story of the young woman whose death I witnessed in a concentration camp. It is a simple story. There is little to tell and it may sound as if I had invented it; but...

Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

Luck’s the word those with poor hearts use for ka…

Sometimes, I am my own worst enemy.

History warns us … that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

Oh, I am fortune’s fool!

Albert grunted. “Do you know what happens to lads who ask too many questions?”Mort thought for a moment.”No,” he said eventually, “what?”There was silence.Then Albert straightened up and said, “Damned if I know. Probably they...

Geography is destiny.

One has to be at least as ancient as I am now to see that if you try to make sense of life, if you look for patterns and meaning, not only are you bound...

Their fate rests in their hands.

Please do make your decisions in life and feel confident that they are right.However, if fate is involved, feel just as confident even if they aren’t.

Do not be afraid; our fateCannot be taken from us; it is a gift.

Ahab is for ever Ahab, man. This whole act’s immutably decreed. ‘Twas rehearsed by thee and me a billion years before this ocean rolled. Fool! I am the Fates’ lieutenant, I act under orders.

The future is not in the hands of fate, but in ours.

Your destiny has not been decided by others, but by you. Fate determines our choices; but our choices determine fate. You will carry it out because you choose to.

Before criticize common-known thieves severely, think for a while that maybe you are thief, too. Believe me, there is no special distinctive feature that enables us to determine who is a thief. Only the way...

Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are; the reason or formula by which the world goes on.

Some people experience rare moments when everything they believe is challenged. Or at least shaken up. Those moments stay with them. Surprise, real surprise, is an exotic thing not soon forgotten.

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What was destiny? What was the power that shaped the patterns and attempted to enforce them? God? Should she be raging at God – or begging Him to let her son live and to spare...

Do all the work you can, there is enough rest in the grave.

Reach out and fulfill your divine passion.

May you follow the path of light.

Destiny exists only in retrospect.

There was no beginning, middle and end to destiny, it wasn’t neat and manageable. It was random and scary and if it wanted to it would.

Delphine witnessed awful things occurring to other humans. Worse than that, she was powerless to alter their fate. It would be that way all her life–disasters, falling like chairs all around her, falling so close...

No voice comes from outer space, from the folds of dust and carpets of wind to tell us that this is the way it was meant to happen, that if only we knew how long...

You cannot outwit fate by placing little sidebets on the outcome of life. It’s either you wade in and play in order to win or you don’t play at all.” – Matthew Farrell

When my father wrote about fate, I think he was writing about the reality that is, when there are so many other realities that could have been.

I fantasize the night sky to be like a cosmic blue print of my life as I close my eyes and unbutton my heart…. just in case anyone up there is listening.

I kept waiting for the part where I’d finally know who I was — some flashing, neon moment of relief, but it never came.

Fate is a fickle bitch. Just when you believe you’ve secured the goose that lays the golden egg, she back heels you in the bollocks.

…art is weaker than life – in the end I have a bag of letters to scrabble into order – rune tiles to cast my fate…

Every decent man in America ought to swoon with joy for the opportunity to crush with his heel the woolly head of this black lizard, to keep him from scuttling on his belly farther over...

Determinism gives you the freedom to do whatever you like.