Quotes about Fate

But you don't choose the time. The time chooses you. Either you seize what may turn out to be the only chance you have, or you decide you're willing to live with the knowledge that the chance has passed you by.

Nathan was something that happened to us, as devastating in its way as the burning roof that fell on the family Mwanza; with our fate scarred by hell and brimstone we still had to track our course. And it happened finally by the grace of hell and brimstone that I had to keep moving. I moved, and he stood still.

I walked through the valley of my fate, is all, and learned to love what I could lose.

Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.

Oh, it's a fine and useless enterprise, trying to fix destiny. That trail leads straight back to the time before we ever lived, and into that deep well it's easy to cast curses like stones on our ancestors. But that's nothing more than cursing ourselves and all that made us. Had I not married a preacher named Nathan Price, my particular children would never have seen the light of this world. I walked through the valley of my fate, is all, and learned to love what I could lose

Love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.

God knows I didn't mean to fall in love with her

On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.

While there is hope, do not distrust the gods;

Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.

Do not ask for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee.

Mortals make elaborate plans, but GOD has the last word.