Fate Quotes - Page 30

• For Fate has wove the thread of life with pain,
  And twins ev'n from the birth are Misery and Man!

  Homer

  Life, Pain, Men

  Homer (1806). “The Odyssey of Homer”, p.31

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• Fate finds for every man; his share of misery.

  Euripides

  Sadness, Men, Misery

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides V: Bacchae, Iphigenia in Aulis, The Cyclops, Rhesus”, p.155, University of Chicago Press

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• Man is his own star, and the soul that can, render an honest and a perfect man,
  Commands all light, all influence, all fate: nothing to him falls early or too late.
  Our acts are angels are, for good or ill: our fatal shadows that walk by us still.

  John Fletcher

  Stars, Fall, Angel

  Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher (1840). “The Works of Beaumont and Fletcher”, p.499

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• A man convinced of his own merit will accept misfortune as an honor, for thus can he persuade others, as well as himself, that he is a worthy target for the arrows of fate.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Arrows, Honor

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• When fate is got it in for you, there is no limit to what you may have to put up with.

  Georgette Heyer

  May, Limits

  Georgette Heyer (2010). “A Blunt Instrument”, p.118, Random House

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• The right way to wholeness is made up of fateful detours and wrong turnings.

  Carl Jung

  Destiny, Detours, Way

  Carl Gustav Jung, Murray Stein (1999). “Jung on Christianity”, p.184, Princeton University Press

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• Maybe it's good if God gives you something to think about every so often.

  Charlton Heston

  Destiny, Thinking, Giving

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

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• In every age he had ever studied, doomsayers abounded. No millennium is attractive to the man immured in it; enough prophecies have been made in antiquity that one who desires, in any age, to take the position that apocalypse is at hand can easily defend it. He would not join that dour order; he would not worry about anything but Tempus, and the matter awaiting his attention.

  Janet Morris

  Men, Hands, Order

  Janet Morris (2011). “Tempus with His Right-Side Companion Niko”, p.48, Paradise Publishing

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• Be careful what you pray for.

  Janet Morris

  Recovery, Praying, Mystery

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.234, Paradise Publishing

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• But she has found real love, and love can heal and save.

  Janet Morris

  Love, Real, Salvation

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• This is for you. A mage named Randal told me to give it to the Band if you ever came back. 'It surmounts evil,' he told me, 'keeps doom at bay.'

  Janet Morris

  Evil, Giving, Magic

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.101, Paradise Publishing

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• If I convince myself that this life has no other aspect than that of the absurd, if I feel that its whole equilibrium depends on that perpetual opposition between my conscious revolt and the darkness in which it struggles, if I admit that my freedom has no meaning except in relation to its limited fate, then I must say that what counts is not the best living but the most living.

  Albert Camus

  Struggle, Darkness, Absurd

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.60, Vintage

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• He is my fate. He's my soul mate. He pervades my whole existence. So, of course, I often ignore him.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Soul, Mates, Existence

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• Coincidence is just a safe conformist for fate.

  J.A. Redmerski

  Safe, Coincidence, Conformist

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• As goes love so goes life.

  Aberjhani

  Love, Life, Angel

  Aberjhani (2009). “The Bridge of Silver Wings 2009”, p.9, Lulu.com

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• Because I think you're right. You can make a difference." He told me experiences were kind of like fate, and fate usually came in the form of a test. He told me fate liked to be worshiped. It liked to see us fall on out knees before it offered to help us up..." ♥

  Lauren Oliver

  Fall, Thinking, Differences

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• It is my fate that some of my questions will never be answered.

  Daniel Handler

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• Achilles was murdered with a poisoned arrow, and Jason died alone, killed by his own rotting ship. Such is the fate of heroes.

  Cassandra Clare

  Princess, Hero, Arrows

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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• We didn't believe in fate, but we believed in serendipity. We felt very lucky.

  David Levithan

  Believe, Serendipity, Lucky

  David Levithan (2014). “How They Met and Other Stories”, p.61, Egmont UK

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• 10:38 AM - Third period. Kaylee has no class this period. I have no one to kill. Coincidence, or fate?

  Rachel Vincent

  Class, Coincidence, Periods

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• To stand up for someone was to stitch your fate into the lining of theirs.

  Tom Rob Smith

  Stitches

  Tom Rob Smith (2009). “Child 44”, p.126, Simon and Schuster

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• Your fate is writ clear;you will be murdered. I cannot conceive how it comes about that you were not murdered long since! How odd!Charles himself once said that to me, or something like it! There is nothing odd in it; any sensible man must say it!

  Georgette Heyer

  Men, Long, Odd

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• I don't care whether I really exist or don't, whether I'm real or fictional. What I want right now is to be the person who decides my own fate.

  John Scalzi

  Real, Care, Want

  John Scalzi (2012). “Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas”, p.167, Macmillan

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• Calvin: Dear Santa, before I submit life to your scrutiny, I demand to know who made YOU the matter of my fate?! Who are YOU to question my behavior, HUH??? What gives you the right?! Hobbes: Santa makes the toys, so he gets to decide who to give them to. Calvin: Oh.

  Bill Watterson

  Giving, Demand, Santa

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• Life is long. Just because you don't get your chance right when you want or expect it doesn't mean it won't come. Fate doesn't punch a time clock or consult a schedule.

  Sarah Dessen

  Mean, Long, Schedules

  Sarah Dessen (2013). “The Moon and More”, p.176, Penguin

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