A man does not make his destiny: he accepts it or denies it.

No matter how pathetic or pitiful, every human is fated to have one moment in their lives in which they can change their own destiny.

Fortune, that arrant whore,Ne’er turns the key to th’poor.

You don’t have to say everything to be a light. Sometimes a fire built on a hill will bring interested people to your campfire.

Leave it to fate to tease you with comfort and complacency before turning your world upside down.

A sharp and familiar pang pierced his heart, rattled around his ribs, and then settled in his stomach like a rotting, dead weight. He took a swig of his Jack on the rocks, the burn...

What is the point of our lives? There isn’t any. I can’t seem to decide how much horror and how much joy lies within that simple truth, but I know it is both of those...

Despite all the other factors that had contributed to my fate, in the end it was my decision that destroyed my life. And all the hurt I was enduring now was my doing. The blame...

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...

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

Never surrender your hopes and dreams to the fateful limitations others have placed on their own lives. The vision of your true destiny does not reside within the blinkered outlook of the naysayers and the...

No… we’re not playing God. We’re only attempting to set things right.

You’ll never make it out there. You weren’t made for South Pole adventures.” Flora gave her an icy look. “I think I know by now what I was made for.

…Mr. Hardie had little patience with that sort of conversation.”Ye’re born, ye suffer, and ye die. What made ye think ye deserved different?” he wondered aloud when the deacon’s gentle answers failed to quiet them.

I was coming up on a cross street when a man wearing a filthy suit stepped out from around the corner of the building ahead and directly into my path. Bent with age, he turned...