Quotes about Fate

Ahh, but the dice cannot read their own spots.

In that moment, his whole life was a limb shaken by the departure of a bird … and the bird was chance.

When God hath ordained a creature to die in a particular place. He causes that creature's wants to direct him to that place.

God gives life and he takes life. Everybody who dies, dies because God wills that they die.

If you're too happy about anything, fate usually gives you a good sock in the jaw and knocks you down.

When Zachary saw Annie, he entered the circles of overlapping time. Behold, I have set before you an open door, and no man can shut it.

Success in love is mostly luck, though we hate to admit.

The worm's bad luck is the bird's good fortune.

The image he bears decides his destiny.

But my Country has in its Wisdom contrived for me the most insignificant Office that ever the invention of Man contrived or his Imagination conceived: and as I can do neither good nor Evil, I must be borne away by Others and meet the common Fate.

The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.

The good die young — because they see it's no use living if you've got to be good.