Fate Quotes - Page 31

• The rich...should beg the poor to forgive us for the bread we bring them. Healthy people sometimes feel they need to beg forgiveness too, although there is no reason why. Maybe we simply ask forgiveness for not being born where these poor women have been born, knowing that if we lived here too, our fate might well have been the same.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Knowing, People, Healthy

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• Fate is the magnetic pull of our souls toward the people, places, and things we belong with.

  Tiffanie DeBartolo

  People, Soul, Magnetic

  Tiffanie DeBartolo (2005). “How to Kill a Rock Star”, p.122, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• Men are so quick to blame the gods: they say that we devise their misery. But they themselves- in their depravity- design grief greater than the griefs that fate assigns.

  Homer

  Grief, Men, Design

  Homer (2005). “The Odyssey of Homer”, p.4, Bantam Classics

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• when love is strong enough it can even cause Fate to change her course

  P. C. Cast

  Strong, Love Is, Causes

  P. C. Cast (2008). “Warrior Rising”, p.248, Penguin

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• I have always believed that scientific research is another domain where a form of optimism is essential to success: I have yet to meet a successful scientist who lacks the ability to exaggerate the importance of what he or she is doing, and I believe that someone who lacks a delusional sense of significance will wilt in the face of repeated experiences of multiple small failures and rare successes, the fate of most researchers.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Believe, Successful, Optimism

  Daniel Kahneman (2011). “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, p.299, Macmillan

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• Some fates are guaranteed, no matter who tries to intervene.

  Alice Hoffman

  Trying, Matter, Practical Magic

  Alice Hoffman (2003). “Practical Magic”, p.34, Penguin

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• Fate has a strange way of making plans.

  David Levithan

  Way, Strange, Plans

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.198, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• It’s up to you, not fate. True. But it was also up to Lily. That was the trickiest part.

  David Levithan

  Up To You, Lilies

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• I believe in fate and I believe that things happen for a reason, but I don't think that there's a high power, necessarily. I believe in karma very much though.

  Amy Winehouse

  Karma, Believe, Thinking

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

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• I cannot be known Better than you know me Your eyes in which we sleep We together Have made for my man’s gleam A better fate than for the common nights Your eyes in which I travel Have given to signs along the roads A meaning alien to the earth In your eyes who reveal to us Our endless solitude Are no longer what they thought themselves to be You cannot be known Better than I know you.

  Paul Eluard

  Sleep, Eye, Night

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• When you're attracted to someone, it just means that your subconscious is attracted to their subconscious, subconsciously. So what we think of as fate is just two neuroses knowing that they are a perfect match. - Sleepless in Seattle

  Nora Ephron

  Mean, Thinking, Two

  FaceBook post by Nora Ephron from Jul 10, 2013

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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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• the wheel of fate crushes us all

  Kami Garcia

  Crush, Wheels

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• To make what fate intends for me my own intention

  Carl Jung

  Intention, My Own

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• Marianne Dashwood was born to an extraordinary fate. She was born to discover the falsehood of her own opinions, and to counteract, by her conduct, her most favourite maxims.

  Jane Austen

  Opinion, Favourite, Born

  Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.230, Wordsworth Editions

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• But I also know that to ignore joy while it lasts, in favor of lamenting one's fate, is a great crime.

  Nancy Farmer

  Joy, Favors, Lasts

  Nancy Farmer (2015). “The Sea of Trolls”, p.199, Simon and Schuster

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• Fate will unwind as it must!

  Burton Raffel

  Unwind

  Burton Raffel, Robert Payson Creed (1963). “Beowulf: A New Translation with an Introduction”

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• Did I help you toward a fate you didn't want, Alaska, or did I just assist in your willful self-destruction?

  John Green

  Alaska, Self, Want

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.163, Penguin

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• I've never found it helpful to treat fate with a gentle hand. Everytime I've stroked, hopin' fer a favor, she's slapped me hand and laughed at me. If ye want something, take fate by the throat and shake it out o' her.

  Karen Hawkins

  Hands, Want Something, Favors

  Karen Hawkins (2009). “Sleepless in Scotland”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

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• You must know that I do not love and that I love you, because everything alive has its two sides; a word is one wing of silence, fire has its cold half. I love you in order to begin to love you, to start infinity again and never to stop loving you: that’s why I do not love you yet. I love you, and I do not love you, as if I held keys in my hand: to a future of joy- a wretched, muddled fate- My love has two lives, in order to love you. -Sonnet XLIV

  Pablo Neruda

  Love You, Fire, Keys

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• Fate already warned us to pack it in. We just didn’t hear it in time.

  Jonathan Tropper

  Packs

  Jonathan Tropper (2009). “This Is Where I Leave You: A Novel”, p.195, Penguin

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• ‎It has ever been my fate to give pain to those whose happiness I should have promoted.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Pain, Should Have, Giving

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “The Sorrows of Young Werther”, p.92, Booklassic

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• I never wanted to be feared. If I regret one thing, it is the fear I have caused. Fear is the tool of tyrants. Unfortunately, when the fate of the world is in question, you use whatever tools are available.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Regret, Tyrants, Tools

  Brandon Sanderson (2011). “Mistborn Trilogy”, p.551, Macmillan

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• Now, even more than the evening before, he could think of no one with whom to compare her. She had become absolute, beyond comparison. She had become decision and fate.

  Yasunari Kawabata

  Thinking, Decision, Evening

  Yasunari Kawabata (2013). “Thousand Cranes”, p.145, Vintage

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• I thought that love was a river, endless and deep. I thought it merely happened, washing over you like water. It was nothing to search for, nothing to force. I didn't understand that even when we can't control our fate, we alone have the last say in matters of the heart. We can give it freely, even in the worst of times, even when it isn't returned.

  Alice Hoffman

  Heart, Rivers, Giving

  Alice Hoffman (2010). “Green Witch”, p.97, Scholastic Inc.

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