Fate Quotes - Page 28

• I suppose we must work on being gracious and grateful until we can do for ourselves. Someday the wheel of fate will put us in a position to be of use to them, and we will remember how much easier it is to give help than it is to accept it.

  Patricia Briggs

  Grateful, Giving, Use

  Patricia Briggs (2011). “River Marked”, p.212, Penguin

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• Everywhere man blames nature and fate, yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character, and passions, his mistakes, and weaknesses."--Democritus An Abundance of Katherines---John Green

  John Green

  Mistake, Passion, Character

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• She wasn't a victim of fate, she was running her own risks, pushing beyond her own limits, experiencing things which, one day, in the silence of her heart, in the tedium of old age, she would remember almost with nostalgia - however absurd that might seem.

  Paulo Coelho

  Running, Heart, Silence

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• The only way I can pay back for what fate and society have handed me is to try, in minor totally useless ways, to make an angry sound against injustice.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Trying, Useless, Pay

  Martha Gellhorn, Caroline Moorehead (2006). “The letters of Martha Gellhorn”, Vintage

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• We hasten to alienate the very fates we intended to woo.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated”, p.117, Vintage

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• I suppose it's everyone's fate to be reduced to quaintness by those younger than themselves.

  Margaret Atwood

  Margaret Atwood (2007). “The Blind Assassin: A Novel”, p.38, Anchor

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• If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most beloved

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Sacrifice, Thinking, Beloved

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• Fate is a shape-shifter. It is the kindest and most generous entity imaginable, laying out more goodness than a person deserves, and then it shrinks and curls and forms into something grotesque. You think something is one thing, but then it´s another.

  Deb Caletti

  Thinking, Curls, Shapes

  Deb Caletti (2012). “Stay”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• The fate of this man or that man was less than a drop, although it was a sparkling one, in the great blue motion of the sunlit sea.

  T. H. White

  Men, Blue, Sea

  T.H. WHITE (1958). “THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING”

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• But it was equally clear to her that this was her fate, that she had called its name and it had come to her, and she could do nothing now but own it.

  Robin McKinley

  Names, Clear

  Robin McKinley (2014). “Rose Daughter”, p.63, Open Road Media

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• He ran as he'd never run before, with neither hope nor despair. He ran because the world was divided into opposites and his side had already been chosen for him, his only choice being whether or not to play his part with heart and courage. He ran because fate had placed him in a position of responsibility and he had accepted the burden. He ran because his self-respect required it. He ran because he loved his friends and this was the only thing he could do to end the madness that was killing and maiming them.

  Karl Marlantes

  Love, Running, Heart

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• The choices we make within the boundaries of the twists of fate determines who we are

  John Perkins

  Choices, Twists, Who We Are

  John Perkins (2016). “The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man”, p.30, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• George's son had done his work so thoroughly that he was considered too good a workman to live, and was, in fact, taken and tragically shot at twelve o'clock that same day—another instance of the untoward fate which so often attends dogs and other philosophers who follow out a train of reasoning to its logical conclusion, and attempt perfectly consistent conduct in a world made up so largely of compromise.

  Thomas Hardy

  Dog, Taken, Son

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Far from the Madding Crowd: Works of Hardy”, p.27, 谷月社

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• I don't believe in fate. I don't believe in cushioning your insecurities with a system of belief that tells you 'Don't worry. This may be your life but you're not in control. There is something or someone looking out for you -- it's already organised.' It's all chance and choice, which is far more frightening.

  Maggie O'Farrell

  Believe, Worry, Choices

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• If she says goodbye perhaps adieu. Adieu - like those old time songs she sang. Always adieu (and all songs say it). If she too says it, or weeps, I'll take her in my arms, my lunatic. She's mad but mine, mine. What will I care for gods or devils or for Fate itself. If she smiles or weeps or both. For me.

  Jean Rhys

  Goodbye, Song, Mad

  Jean Rhys (1966). “Wide Sargasso Sea”

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• Yes, I know what passion would fill me with all its power. Before, I was too young. I got in the way. Now I know that acting and loving and suffering is living, of course, but it’s only living insofar as you can be transparent and accept your fate, like the unique reflection of a rainbow of joys and passions which is the same for everyone.

  Albert Camus

  Passion, Reflection, Unique

  Albert Camus (2012). “Happy Death”, p.41, Vintage

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• When you study history and look at every civilization that has grown up and died off, they all leave one remnant: a major sports colosseum at the heart of their capital. Our fate can be different; but only if we start doing things differently.

  Thomas Friedman

  Sports, Heart, Civilization

  Thomas L. Friedman (2007). “The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century”, p.373, Picador

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• I loved Jack because of every little thing about him. The way he laughed, the way he made me smile, the way he'd stay up until nine in the morning watching zombie movies he'd seen a hundred times, and the way he could never hold a grudge. I loved him because I loved him, not because it was fate or destiny or in my blood, We had chosen each other, and that felt more powerful and more magical.

  Amanda Hocking

  Morning, Powerful, Destiny

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• Grappling with fate is like meeting an expert wrestler: to escape, you have to accept the fall when you are thrown. The only thing that counts is whether you get back up.

  Ming-Dao Deng

  Fall, Wrestling, Experts

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• I'm coming to believe that there are two kinds of people... those who choose to be masters of their own fate and those who wait in chairs while other dance. I would rather be one of the former than the latter.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Believe, Two, People

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• Ah, Catylast, can it be that you do not see all the changes you have made? Some by your resignation and acceptance of circumstance, some by your wild struggles. You say that you hate change, but you *are* change. The Fool in Fool's Fate

  Robin Hobb

  Hate, Struggle, Acceptance

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• If there is no fate and our interactions depend on such a complex system of chance encounters, what potentially important connections do we fail to make? What life changing relationships or passionate and lasting love affairs are lost to chance?

  Simon Pegg

  Life Changing, Important, Encounters

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• We might not know we are seeking people who best enrich our lives, but somehow on a deep subconscious level we absolutely are. Whether the bond is temporary or permanent, whether it succeeds or fails, fate is simply a configuration of choices that combine with others to shape the relationships that surround us. We cannot choose our family, but we can choose our friends, and we sometimes, before we even meet them.

  Simon Pegg

  People, Choices, Levels

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• Fate can be one mean god at times.

  Terry Pratchett

  Mean

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• SOONER OR LATER ALL MEN MUST DIE. EVERYTHING DIES IN THE END. I CAN BE ROBBED BUT NEVER DENIED, I TOLD MYSELF. WHY WORRY? “I too cannot be cheated,” snapped Fate.

  Terry Pratchett

  Men, Worry, Ends

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