Fate Quotes - Page 20

• Up to a point a person’s life is shaped by environment, heredity, and changes in the world about them. Then there comes a time when it lies within their grasp to shape the clay of their life into the sort of thing they wish it to be. Only the weak blame parents, their race, their times, lack of good fortune or the quirks of fate. Everyone has the power to say, "This I am today. That I shall be tomorrow.

  Louis L'Amour

  Life, Lying, Race

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• We kissed, then, and the ardour of her kiss stole my breath away. I returned her passion with all the fervor I possessed. A lifetime of vows and heart-felt disciplines had prepared me well, for in that kiss I sealed with all my soul the fate before me, embracing a mystery clothed in warm and yielding female flesh. Holding only the moment, with neither thought nor care for the future, I kissed her, and drank deep the strong wine of desire.

  Stephen R. Lawhead

  Strong, Passion, Heart

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• She was so evidently the victim of the civilization which had produced her, that the links of her bracelet seemed like manacles chaining her to her fate.

  Edith Wharton

  Civilization, Links, Mirth

  Edith Wharton (2015). “The House of Mirth”, p.8, Xist Publishing

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• fate is not just whose cooking smells good, but which way the wind blows

  Ani DiFranco

  Blow, Wind, Smell

  Song: Slide, Album: Evolve, 2003

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• Intentions, good or bad, are not enough. There's luck or fate or something else that takes over.

  John Steinbeck

  Luck, Enough, Intention

  John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.107, Penguin

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• I believe in Spinoza's God, who reveals Himself in the lawful harmony of the world, not in a God who concerns Himself with the fate and the doings of mankind... to Rabbi Herbert Goldstein (1929)

  Albert Einstein

  Believe, World, Spinoza

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.325, Princeton University Press

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• Indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not.

  Thomas Hardy

  Men, Doe, Indifference

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Far from the Madding Crowd: Works of Hardy”, p.28, 谷月社

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• Plans are one thing and fate another. When they coincide, success results. Yet success mustn't be considered the absolute. It is questionable, for that matter, whether success is an adequate resposne to life. Success can eliminate as many options as failure.

  Tom Robbins

  Adequate, Matter, Coincidence

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.22, Bantam

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• ...it has been well said that it is precisely these moments when we are feeling that ours is the world and everything that's in it that Fate selects for sneaking up on us with the rock in the stocking.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Rocks, Feelings, World

  P.G. Wodehouse (2009). “Full Moon: (Blandings Castle)”, p.214, Random House

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• wholly to be a fool while Spring is in the world my blood approves, and kisses are a far better fate than wisdom lady i swear by all flowers.

  e. e. cummings

  Spring, Flower, Kissing

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• The better part of the man is soon ploughed into the soil for compost. By a seeming fate, commonly called necessity, they are employed, as it says in an old book, laying up treasures which moth and rust will corrupt and thieves break through and steal. It is a fool's life, as they will find when they get to the end of it, if not before.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Book, Men, Break Through

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.3, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Nico was wrong. The Book of Fate isn't already written. It's written every day. Some scars never heal. Then again, some do.

  Brad Meltzer

  Book, Scar, Heal

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• Whether or not you believe in Fate comes down to one thing: who do you blame when something goes wrong.

  Jodi Picoult

  Believe, Blame, One Thing

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

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• --nor had I understood til then how the shameless vanity of utter fools can so strongly determine the fate of others

  Philip Roth

  Vanity, Fool, Shameless

  Philip Roth (2004). “The Plot Against America: A Novel”, p.213, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Then there came a faraway, booming voice like a low, clear bell. It came from the center of the bowl and down the great sides to the ground and then bounced toward her eagerly. 'You see I am fate,' it shouted, 'and stronger than your puny plans; and I am how-things-turn-out and I am different from your little dreams, and I am the flight of time and the end of beauty and unfulfilled desire; all the accidents and imperceptions and the little minutes that shape the crucial hours are mine. I am the exception that proves no rules, the limits of your control, the condiment in the dish of life.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Dream, Voice, Desire

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• For it is the fate of a woman Long to be patient and silent, to wait like a ghost that is speechless, Till some questioning voice dissolves the spell of its silence. Hence is the inner life of so many suffering women Sunless and silent and deep, like subterranean rivers Runnng through caverns of darkness.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Voice, Rivers, Long

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1992). “Favorite Poems”, p.48, Courier Corporation

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• Reader, you must know that an interesting fate (sometimes involving rats, sometimes not) awaits almost everyone, mouse or man, who does not conform.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Men, Interesting, Doe

  Kate DiCamillo (2009). “The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread”, p.25, Candlewick Press

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• If the whole world is evil, then the tragedy that befell you is justified," she went on. "That would make it easier for you to accept the deaths of your wife and daughters. But if good people do exist, then, however much you deny it, your life will be unbearable; because fate set a trap for you, and you know you didn't deserve it. It isn't the light you want to recover, it's the certainty that there is only darkness.

  Paulo Coelho

  Daughter, Light, People

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• ...this is the way fate usually treats us, it's right there behind us, it has already reached out a hand to touch us on the shoulder while we're still muttering to ourselves, It's all over, that's it, who cares anyhow.

  Jose Saramago

  Hands, Who Cares, Way

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• Take it from me, Fate doesn't care most of the time.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Care

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• I can imagine few worse fates than walking around for the rest of one's life wearing a typo.

  Anne Fadiman

  Typos, Imagine, Walking

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• Mr. Rochester, I no more assign this fate to you than I grasp at it for myself. We were born to strive and endure - you as well as I: do so. You will forget me before I forget you.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Forget You, Strive, Born

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.258, Penguin

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• And I think now that fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention. But somehow, when you lose something you love, faith takes over. -Rose

  Amy Tan

  Thinking, Expectations, Rose

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.131, Penguin

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• I've lived to bury my desires and see my dreams corrode with rust now all that's left are fruitless fires that burn my empty heart to dust. Struck by the clouds of cruel fate My crown of Summer bloom is sere Alone and sad, I watch and wait And wonder if the end is near. As conquered by the last cold air When Winter whistles in the wind Alone upon a branch that's bare A trembling leaf is left behind.

  Alexander Pushkin

  Summer, Dream, Heart

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• Cruel blows of fate call for extreme kindness in the family circle.

  Dodie Smith

  Kindness, Blow, Circles

  Dodie Smith (2017). “I Capture the Castle: Young Adult Edition”, p.85, St. Martin's Griffin

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