"The powe if fate is something terrible. It cannot be escaped--not with wealth or by war, not with a tower ir a sea-lashed black ship."

Fate, Power, Escape, Observation

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"The powe if fate is something terrible. It cannot be escaped--not with wealth or by war, not with a tower ir a sea-lashed black ship."

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"If you fall from a plane onto a river, and survived, it is luck, but if you fall from a plane onto asphalt ground, and survived, then that is a miracle."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

Fate, Luck, Miracle, Survival, Faith

"An apple only falls far from its tree when carried away by divine winds."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Fate, Apple, Tree, Divine

"When ill luck begins, it does not come in sprinkles, but in showers."

Mark Twain, American Author

Fate, Misfortune, Hardship, Failure

"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 her."

Kurt Vonnegut, American Author

Fate, Luck, Religion, Life, Innocence

"Fate is the malevolent little jester sitting up in the heavens and pondering over how ridiculous we humans are and he does his best to make fools out of all of us. And sooner or later he succeeds."

Lisa Kleypas, American Novelist

Fate, Irony, Humor, Life

"Jonah-John-if I had been a Sam, I would have been a Jonah still-not because I have been unlucky for others, but because somebody or something has compelled me to be certain places, at certain times, without fail. Conveyances and motives, both conventional and bizarre, have been provided. And, according to plan, at each appointed second, at each appointed place this Jonah was there."

Kurt Vonnegut, American Author

Fate, Destiny, Life, Uncertainty

"When I read the ghastly lines of tragedy darkly penned into my life, I turn and notice that the pen in my hand is wet."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

Fate, Truth, Life, Regret, Power

"And who would dare write their own death into the script so that the rest of the characters in the tale might live? God of course."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

Fate, Truth, Wisdom, Power

"Come in, Bean." Come in Julian Delphiki, longed-for child of good and loving parents. Come in, kidnapped child, hostage of fate. Come and talk to the Fates, who are playing such clever little games with your life."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

Fate, Childhood, Destiny, Hope

"We all have such fateful objects -- it may be a recurrent landscape in one case, a number in another -- carefully chosen by the gods to attract events of specific significance for us: here shall John always stumble; there shall Jane's heart always break."

Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist

Fate, Significance, Events, Destiny

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"If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of injustice shines bright."

Forgiveness

"A day lays low and lifts up again all human things."

Time

"If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would be a less valuable thing than weeping."

Cure

"All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils."

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"Quick decisions are unsafe decisions."

Decision-Making

"OEDIPUS:O, O, O, they will all come,all come out clearly! Light of the sun, let melook upon you no more after today!I who first saw the light bred of a matchaccursed, and accursed in my livingwith them I lived with, cursed in my killing."

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"If you fall from a plane onto a river, and survived, it is luck, but if you fall from a plane onto asphalt ground, and survived, then that is a miracle."

"An apple only falls far from its tree when carried away by divine winds."

"When ill luck begins, it does not come in sprinkles, but in showers."

"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 her."

"Fate is the malevolent little jester sitting up in the heavens and pondering over how ridiculous we humans are and he does his best to make fools out of all of us. And sooner or later he succeeds."

"When I read the ghastly lines of tragedy darkly penned into my life, I turn and notice that the pen in my hand is wet."

"And who would dare write their own death into the script so that the rest of the characters in the tale might live? God of course."

"Come in, Bean." Come in Julian Delphiki, longed-for child of good and loving parents. Come in, kidnapped child, hostage of fate. Come and talk to the Fates, who are playing such clever little games with your life."

"We all have such fateful objects -- it may be a recurrent landscape in one case, a number in another -- carefully chosen by the gods to attract events of specific significance for us: here shall John always stumble; there shall Jane's heart always break."

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"If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of injustice shines bright."

"A day lays low and lifts up again all human things."

"If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would be a less valuable thing than weeping."

"All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils."

"Quick decisions are unsafe decisions."

"OEDIPUS:O, O, O, they will all come,all come out clearly! Light of the sun, let melook upon you no more after today!I who first saw the light bred of a matchaccursed, and accursed in my livingwith them I lived with, cursed in my killing."

"Kindness gives birth to kindness."

"Evil counsel travels fast."

"Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure."

"The truth is what I cherish and that's my strength."