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Fate Quotes


"The hand of fate had dipped into the ragbag of humanity."


"A left turn in the fate of Russia is as necessary as it is inevitable."


"When I need a word and do not find it in French, I select it from other tongues, and the reader has either to understand or translate me. Such is my fate."


"Never try to separate soul-mates, destiny might electrocute you."



"The fate of a child is in the hands of his parents."



"Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand it."
Fate,


"The Piper is coming nearer," he said, "he is nearer than he was that evening I saw him before. His long, shadowy cloak is blowing around him. He pipes - he pipes - and we must follow - Jem and Carl and Jerry and I - round and round the world. Listen - listen - can't you hear his wild music?"


"A man seeks his own destiny and no other, said the judge. Wil or nill. Any man who could discover his own fate and elect therefore some opposite course could only come at last to that selfsame reckoning at the same appointed time, for each man's destiny is as large as the world he inhabits and contains within it all opposites as well. The desert upon which so many have been broken is vast and calls for largeness of heart but it is also ultimately empty. It is hard, it is barren. Its very nature is stone."


"The wind god Favonius had warned him in Croatia: If you let your anger rule you, your fate will be even sadder than mine. But how could his fate be anything but sad? Even if he lived through this quest, he would have to leave both camps forever. That was the only way he would find peace. He wished there was another option " a choice that didn't hurt like the waters of the Phlegethon " but he couldn't see one."


"It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active."


"Your fate lies in your hands."


"It is usually more important how a man meets his fate than what it is."


"He willed that the hearts of Men should seek beyond the world and should find no rest therein; but they should have a virtue to shape their life, amid the powers and chances of the world, beyond the Music of the Ainur, which is as fate to all things else."


"Do you really believe in destiny?" "How can I not believe in destiny, when there is no difference between my memories and my dreams at night? There's no difference between their reality. And if I dream something first, I remember it later when I am actually walking in the place or looking at the person I first dreamed of. Days later. Or years later. Destiny~ she walks with me."


"The world is a huge space, but the space that will take you in - and itdoesn't have to be very big - is nowhere to be found. You seek a voice, but what doyou get? Silence. You look for silence, but guess what? All you hear over and overand over is the voice of this omen. And sometimes this prophetic voice pushes asecret switch hidden deep inside your brain."


"A great novel is concerned primarily with the interior lives of its characters as they respond to the inconvenient narratives that fate imposes on them. Movie adaptations of these monumental fictions often fail because they become mere exercises in interior decoration."
Fate,


"Fate determines many things, no matter how we struggle."


"Misfortunes tell us what fortune is."


"Superiority to fate is difficult to gain 'tis not conferred of any but possible to earn."


"It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity."


"It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools."


"Names and individuals are unimportant when Germany's final fate is at stake."


"Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries the connection of events."


"And I was holding someone who was destined to be my best friend, or possibly my worst enemy."


"An apple only falls far from its tree when carried away by divine winds."


"Antonio: Will you stay no longer? nor will you not that I go with you? Sebastian: By your patience, no. My stars shine darkly over me; the malignancy of my fate might, perhaps, distemper yours; therefore I shall crave of you your leave that I may bear my evils alone. It were a bad recompense for your love to lay any of them on you."
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