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Fate Quotes
"What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate."
Fate,
12
"Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are; the reason or formula by which the world goes on."
12
"No one dies pre-maturely. As is meant, happens naturally."
9
"Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like."
8
"Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate."
Fate,
8
"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 forced their paths to intersect."
7
"The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in ourselves. Easy enough to say when you're a Roman nobleman (or Shakespeare!), but there is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars."
7
"Ilse and I hunted all over the old orchard today for a four-leaved clover and couldn't find one. Then I found one in a clump of clover by the dairy steps tonight when I was straining the milk and never thinking of clovers. Cousin Jimmy says that is the way luck always comes, and it is no use to look for it."
7
"It makes me believe in fate. In most cases, the readings where I've been really bad have usually been the ones where I got the part."
Fate,
7
"The hand of fate had dipped into the ragbag of humanity."
6
"Never try to separate soul-mates, destiny might electrocute you."
6
"He willed that the hearts of Men should seek beyond the world and should find no rest therein; but they should have a virtue to shape their life, amid the powers and chances of the world, beyond the Music of the Ainur, which is as fate to all things else."
6
"I don't believe in providence and fate, as a technologist I am used to reckoning with the formulae of probability."
6
"Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing direction."
6
"Fate is not in man but around him."
6
"Most of the time - 99 percent of the time - you just don't know how and why the threads are looped together, and that's okay. Do a good thing and something bad happens. Do a bad thing and something good happens. Do nothing and everything explodes. And very, very rarely - by some miracle of chance and coincidence, butterflies beating their wings just so and all the threads hanging together for a minute - you get the chance to do the right thing."
6
"A man seeks his own destiny and no other, said the judge. Wil or nill. Any man who could discover his own fate and elect therefore some opposite course could only come at last to that selfsame reckoning at the same appointed time, for each man's destiny is as large as the world he inhabits and contains within it all opposites as well. The desert upon which so many have been broken is vast and calls for largeness of heart but it is also ultimately empty. It is hard, it is barren. Its very nature is stone."
6
"The world is a huge space, but the space that will take you in - and itdoesn't have to be very big - is nowhere to be found. You seek a voice, but what doyou get? Silence. You look for silence, but guess what? All you hear over and overand over is the voice of this omen. And sometimes this prophetic voice pushes asecret switch hidden deep inside your brain."
5
"When I need a word and do not find it in French, I select it from other tongues, and the reader has either to understand or translate me. Such is my fate."
5
"Fate had a hand in it - luck had nothing to do with it."
5
"It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals."
5
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