Kismet Quotes

• Timing. We give it many names: Destiny, Fate, Kismet, the will of God. Whatever we call it, lives are changed and molded by it, in small or drastic ways beyond our control. The precise, exquisite influence of timing moves people into new positions as surely as a spring flood rearranges the landscape. It is as unavoidable as life.

  Helen Van Slyke

  Spring, Moving, Fate

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• It was karma, it was kismet, it was magic. It doesn't matter how it happened, just that it did.

  Shannon Hale

  Karma, Magic, Matter

  Shannon Hale (2009). “The Actor and the Housewife: A Novel”, p.336, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• It doesn't have to be on Valentine's Day. It doesn't have to be by the time you turn eighteen or thirty-three or fifty-nine. It doesn't have to conform to whatever is usual. It doesn't have to be kismet at once, or rhapsody by the third date. It just has to be. In time. In place. In spirit. It just has to be.

  David Levithan

  Valentine, Usual, Three

  David Levithan (2014). “How They Met and Other Stories”, p.156, Egmont UK

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• Sometimes, kismet happens.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Moon, Sometimes, Happens

  "New Moon". Book by Stephenie Meyer, September 6, 2006.

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• O cold ! O shivery ! It was your ambrosial beauty. Forget, forgive. Kismet. Let me off this once.

  James Joyce

  Climbing, Forgiving, Cold

  James Joyce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)”, p.600, Delphi Classics

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• I like to say I don’t believe in mystics . I don’t believe in fate. I don’t believe in destiny or kismet. I don’t believe in God. I don’t believe in anything. But I believe in the possibility of everything.

  Tiffanie DeBartolo

  Believe, Fate, Destiny

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• The Orientals have another word for accident; it is "kismet,"--fate.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Fate, Accidents

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• There's no such thing as chance, it's all preordained.Lik e KISMET.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Chance

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• You can't plan the kind of deep love that results in children. Fatherhood was not a conscious decision. It was part of the wonderful ride I was on. All the math finally worked.

  Johnny Depp

  Children, Math, Destiny

  "Depp's Vigil For Sick Daughter" by Stephen Moyes, www.mirror.co.uk. March 8, 2007.

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• If you don't believe in God, I don't believe in you.

  Behdad Sami

  Believe, Ifs, Believe In God

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• They have no business administering government policies in a country that favors freedom and equality. ... Can you imagine having the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini as defense minister, or Mahatma Gandhi as minister of health, education, and welfare The Hindu and Buddhist idea of karma and the Muslim idea of kismet, or fate condemn the poor and the disabled to their suffering. ... It's the will of Allah. These beliefs are nothing but abject fatalism, and they would devastate the social gains this nation has made if they were ever put into practice.

  Pat Robertson

  Karma, Country, Buddhist

  "The new world order". Book by Pat Robertson, 1991.

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• I got my Equity card from an audition out of Backstage. We did 'Guys and Dolls' and 'Kismet.'

  John C. McGinley

  Guy, Dolls, Cards

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