Fate Quotes - Page 34

• I figure the world is basically a machine. I don't know who made it, if it was the Fates, or the gods, or the capital-G god or whatever. But it chugs along the way it's supposed to most of the time. Sure, little pieces break off and stuff goes haywire once in a while, but mostly... things happen for a reason.

  Rick Riordan

  Break Off, Littles, Stuff

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• [Percy] kept hoping things would get better for Annabeth and him, but their lives just got more dangerous, as if the Three Fates were up there spinning their futures with barbed wire instead of thread just to see how much two demigods could tolerate.

  Rick Riordan

  Two, Get Better, Wire

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• Think long and hard about how you proceed, Nico di Angelo. You cannot lie to Cupid. If you let your anger rule you... well, your fate will be even sadder then mine.

  Rick Riordan

  Lying, Thinking, Long

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• Frank had decided that whatever his fate was, he wouldn’t worry about it. He would just do the best he could to help his friends.

  Rick Riordan

  Worry, Helping, Frank

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• At least he had Annabeth. They would find a way out of Tartarus. They had to. He didn't think much of fates and prophecies, but he did believe in one thing: Annabeth and he were supposed to be together. They hadn't survived so much just to get killed now.

  Rick Riordan

  Believe, Thinking, Together

  Rick Riordan (2013). “The House of Hades (Heroes of Olympus Book 4)”, p.80, Penguin UK

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• But dreams change. Fate has a way showing you paths you want more.

  Abbi Glines

  Dream, Want, Way

  Abbi Glines (2016). “Sea Breeze Volume 2: Just for Now; Sometimes It Lasts; Misbehaving”, p.317, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes, all it takes to save people from a terrible fate is one person willing to do something about it. Even if that "something" is a fake bathroom break.

  Veronica Roth

  People, Fake, Bathroom

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• Day just smiles at me, an expression so sad that it breaks through my numbness, and I begin to cry. Those bright blue eyes. Before me is the boy who has bandaged my wounds on the streets of Lake, who has guarded his family with every bone in his body, who has stayed by my side in spite of everything, the boy of light and laughter and life, of grief and fury and passion, the boy whose fate is intertwined with mine, forever and always. "I love you," he whispers. "Can you stay awhile?

  Marie Lu

  Laughter, Love You, Grief

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• Even the gods couldn't devise a fates so twisted.

  Rick Riordan

  Twisted

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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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• Those spacious regions where our fancies roam,
  Pain'd by the past, expecting ills to come,
  In some dread moment, by the fates assign'd,
  Shall pass away, nor leave a rack behind;
  And Time's revolving wheels shall lose at last
  The speed that spins the future and the past:
  And, sovereign of an undisputed throne,
  Awful eternity shall reign alone.

  Petrarch

  Time, Pain, Past

  Francesco Petrarch (2016). “Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Francesco Petrarch (Illustrated)”, p.440, Delphi Classics

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• Time and tide wait for no man.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Inspirational, Birthday, Time

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• Our mission in life is not to discover our fate as we go along, or even to procreate, but rather to fill up the endless gray void that is time.

  Jane Hamilton

  Time, Void, Life Is

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• In life's small things be resolute and great To keep thy muscle trained; Know'st thou when Fate Thy measure takes, or when she'll say to thee, "I find thee worthy; do this deed for me?"

  James Russell Lowell

  Life, Time, Deeds

  James Russell Lowell, Charles Eliot Norton (1904). “The poetical works”

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• The future is not in the hands of fate but in ours.

  Jean Jules Jusserand

  Future, Hands

  Jean Jules Jusserand (1933). “What me befell: the reminiscences of J. J. Jusserand ...”, Ayer Co Pub

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• Providence has given human wisdom the choice between two fates: either hope and agitation, or hopelessness and calm.

  Yevgeny Baratynsky

  Hope, Two, Choices

  "Two Fates" by Yevgeny Baratynsky, translated by Dmitri Obolensky, 1823.

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• Drop the question of what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that Fate allows you.

  Horace

  Inspirational, Faith, Humor

  'Odes' bk. 1, no. 9, l. 13

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• Crowns have their compass-length of days their date-
  Triumphs their tomb-felicity, her fate-
  Of nought but earth can earth make us partaker,
  But knowledge makes a king most like his Maker.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Knowledge, Triumph

  William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier (1858). “Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems”, p.171

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• Our life must once have end; in vain we fly
  From following Fate; e'en now, e'en now, we die.

  Lucretius

  Life, Vain, Ends

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• The dictates of the heart are the voice of fate.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Life, Heart, Voice

  "Wallenstein" by Friedrich Schiller, translated by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Act III, sc. viii, 1798.

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• There has fallen a splendid tear
  From the passion-flower at the gate.
  She is coming, my dove, my dear;
  She is coming, my life, my fate;
  The red rose cries, "She is near, she is near;"
  And the white rose weeps, "She is late;"
  The larkspur listens, "I hear; I hear;"
  And the lily whispers, "I wait."

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Life, Flower, Passion

  'Maud' (1855) pt. 1, sect. 22, st. 10

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• Divine the Powers that on this trio wait.
  Supreme their conquest, over Time and Fate.
  Love, Work, and Faith - these three alone are great.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Life, Waiting, Three

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1917). “The Collected Poems”

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• Let never man be bold enough to say,
  Thus, and no farther shall my passion stray:
  The first crime, past, compels us into more,
  And guilt grows fate, that was but choice, before.

  Aaron Hill

  Life, Passion, Past

  Aaron Hill (1760). “The Dramatic Works of Aaron Hill, Esq”, p.411

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