Fate Quotes - Page 26

• He never believed in fate or providence, or the future being made by someone in the sky. Instead, at every instant, a trillion trillion possible futures; the pickiness of pure chance and physical laws seemed like freedom from the scheming of a gloomy god.

  Ian Mcewan

  Law, Sky, Chance

  Ian McEwan (2010). “Saturday”, p.128, Random House

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• It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured.\

  Gregory David Roberts

  Wall, Heart, Long

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.7, Macmillan

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• Part of the racialized sexism wants everyone to think that a 15-year old Mexican is not a girl, she’s a woman. We know she’s a girl. We can never emphasize this enough, because this is the fate of colored girls globally right now: the denial of their girlhood, the denial of their childhood, and the constant state of risk and danger they are living in.

  Bell Hooks

  Girl, Thinking, Years

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• We all play chess with Fate as partner. He makes a move, we make a move. He tries to checkmate us in three moves, we try to prevent it. We know we can't win, but we're driven to give him a good fight.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Moving, Fighting, Winning

  Isaac Bashevis Singer (1982). “The collected stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer”, Vintage

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• Our lives are made in these small hours, these little wonders, these twists & turns of fate. Time falls away, but these small hours, these small hours still remain. All of my regret, will wash away somehow. But i can not forget, the way i feel right now.

  Rob Thomas

  Regret, Fall, Twists

  Song: Little Wonders

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• Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors, concern for the great unsolved problems of the organization of labor and the distribution of goods-in order that the creations of our mind shall be a blessing and not a curse to mankind. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

  Albert Einstein

  Science, Blessing, Men

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• Julian once wrote that coincidences are the scars of fate. There are no coincidences, Daniel. We are puppets of our subconscious desires.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Desire, Puppets, Scar

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.420, Penguin

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• Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you - it’s born with us the day that we are born.

  Homer

  Grief, Men, Brave

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• The stern hand of fate has scourged us to an elevation where we can see the great everlasting things which matter for a nation - the great peaks we had forgotten, of Honor, Duty, Patriotism, and clad in glittering white, the great pinnacle of Sacrifice pointing like a rugged finger to Heaven.

  David Lloyd George

  Sacrifice, Hands, White

  Speech in Queen's Hall, London, September 19, 1914.

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• alone with everybody the flesh covers the bone and they put a mind in there and sometimes a soul, and the women break vases against the walls and them men drink too much and nobody finds the one but they keep looking crawling in and out of beds. flesh covers the bone and the flesh searches for more than flesh. there's no chance at all: we are all trapped by a singular fate. nobody ever finds the one. the city dumps fill the junkyards fill the madhouses fill the hospitals fill the graveyards fill nothing else fills.

  Charles Bukowski

  Wall, Men, Cities

  Charles Bukowski, “Alone With Everybody”

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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.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Path, Recognition, Impatient

  Lisa Kleypas (2009). “Secrets of a Summer Night”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• You can change your fate. You can sit back, or you can go after your life and all that you want it to be.

  Hilary Swank

  Inspirational, Motivational, Suicide

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I walked towards my fate with my destiny standing solidly by my side

  Stephenie Meyer

  Destiny, Sides, Standing

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• Does fate ever play by the rules?

  Jodi Picoult

  Play, Doe

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #2: Perfect Match, Second Glance, and My Sister's Keeper”, p.268, Simon and Schuster

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• The thing about fate is, are you the master of your fate, or are the stars?

  Kami Garcia

  Stars, Masters

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• On the golf course, a man may be the dogged victim of inexorable fate, be struck down by an appalling stroke of tragedy, become the hero of unbelievable melodrama, or the clown in a side-splitting comedy.

  Bobby Jones

  Hero, Golf, Men

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• I think of how life takes unexpected twists and turns, sometimes through sheer happenstance, sometimes through calculated decisions. In the end, it can all be called fate, but to me, it is more a matter of faith.

  Emily Giffin

  Thinking, Decision, Twists

  Emily Giffin (2008). “Love the One You're With”, p.346, Macmillan

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• Fate rules. You follow the steps and you plan and you work. Then fate slips in laughing and makes fools of us. Sometimes we can trick it or out guess it but most often its already written. For some its written in blood. That doesn't mean we stop, but it does mean we can't comfort ourselves with blame. It's easier to take the blame than to admit there was nothing you could do to stop whatever happened.

  Nora Roberts

  Mean, Blood, Laughing

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• You know what I think? Fate! That's what it is fate! There's a thing that comes after a fellow:got a name,but I forgot what it is. Creeps up behind him, and puts him in the basket when he ain't expecting it.

  Georgette Heyer

  Thinking, Names, Expecting

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• Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts.

  Haruki Murakami

  Storm, Adjusting, Sometimes

  "Kafka on the Shore". Book by Haruki Murakami. Chapter One, September 12, 2002.

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• We are all brothers and we are all suffering the same fate. The same smoke floats over all our heads. Help one another. It is the only way to survive. (pg. 39)

  Elie Wiesel

  Brother, Suffering, Way

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• That life - whatever else it is - is short. That fate is cruel but maybe not random. That Nature (meaning Death) always wins but that doesn’t mean we have to bow and grovel to it. That maybe even if we’re not always so glad to be here, it’s our task to immerse ourselves anyway: wade straight through it, right through the cesspool, while keeping eyes and hearts open. And in the midst of our dying, as we rise from the organic and sink back ignominiously into the organic, it is a glory and a privilege to love what Death doesn’t touch.

  Donna Tartt

  Heart, Mean, Eye

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• Why, I hold fate Clasped in my fist, and could command the course Of time's eternal motion, hadst thou been One thought more steady than an ebbing sea.

  John Ford

  Time, Sea, Fists

  "Tis Pity She's a Whore' (1633) act 5, sc. 4

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• Fate,Time,Occasion,Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Time, Destiny, Eternal Love

  1820 Prometheus Unbound, act 2, sc.4, l.119-20.

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• As the years have gone on and you start to know your character better than some of the writers and directors do, you get a little bit more of a world in which you can say, "I think it would be really great, if this year, her fate wasn't determined by the boys," or that kind of thing. You have to pick your battles and make sure that you've earned the right to talk about that.

  Deborah Ann Woll

  Character, Boys, Thinking

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