Quotes about Fate
I learned a long time ago we've control of little in this world, Amanda. It doesn't belong to us. It's out of our hands. Like being born or being sold into prostitution at eight. All we can change is the way we think and the way we live.
- Francine Rivers
Past and future were out of her hands. One was finished and couldn't be undone. The other was beyond imagining.
- Francine Rivers
If God wills that I die, then I die. No power on earth can change that.
- Francine Rivers
It will all work out as it should.
- Francine Rivers
When God hath ordained a creature to die in a particular place, He causeth that creature's wants to direct him to that place.
- Frank Herbert
The Golden Path demands it. And what is the Golden Path? you ask. It is the survival of humankind, nothing more nor less.
- Frank Herbert
They'll call me Muad'Dib, 'The One Who Points the Way'.
- Frank Herbert
Dune was a world of paradox now—a world under siege, yet the center of power. To come under siege, he decided, was the inevitable fate of power.
- Frank Herbert
Paul felt that he had been infected with terrible purpose. He did not know yet what the terrible purpose was.
- Frank Herbert
When our time ends on its rictus smile, we'll pass the lure of fortune.
- Frank Herbert
No more terrible disaster could befall your people than for them to fall into the hands of a Hero.
- Frank Herbert
I know the trap of prescience. My father's life tells me what I need to know about it. No, grandmother: to know the future absolutely is to be trapped into that future absolutely. It collapses time. Present becomes future.
- Frank Herbert