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Fate Quotes
"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."
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"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."
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"If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow."
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"All the nations they had to deal with, had the same fate."
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"Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are; the reason or formula by which the world goes on."
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"I don't believe in providence and fate, as a technologist I am used to reckoning with the formulae of probability."
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"The Piper is coming nearer," he said, "he is nearer than he was that evening I saw him before. His long, shadowy cloak is blowing around him. He pipes - he pipes - and we must follow - Jem and Carl and Jerry and I - round and round the world. Listen - listen - can't you hear his wild music?"
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"Accidents. It's all about the accidents."
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"It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals."
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"Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing direction."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand it."
Fate,
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"Niall: We're tossed by the winds of fate. Once we end where they blow us, we make of ourselves that we will."
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"Certain signs precede certain events."
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"It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active."
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"Here's a sigh to those who love me And a smile to those who hate And whatever sky's above me Here's a heart for every fate."
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"The end is in the beginning and yet you go on."
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"Fate has a cruel sense of humor, don't you think?"
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"Certain things need not be said, and there's nothing, not a whisper, prayer, not a sacrifice, not a payment of any price, that would change what's about to happen."
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"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."
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"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."
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"A great novel is concerned primarily with the interior lives of its characters as they respond to the inconvenient narratives that fate imposes on them. Movie adaptations of these monumental fictions often fail because they become mere exercises in interior decoration."
Fate,
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"Many things the gods achieve beyond our judgement,'" said the sorrowful girl. "'What we thought is not confirmed and what we thought not God contives."
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"Is not an event in fact more significant and noteworthy the greater the number of fortuities necessary to bring it about? ... Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day out, is mute. Only chance can speak to us."
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"For he will doAs he do doAnd there's no doing anything about it!"
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"But if I hadn't fallen, I wouldn't have met you."
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