Quotes about Fate
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
Ahh, but the dice cannot read their own spots.
— Frank Herbert
In that moment, his whole life was a limb shaken by the departure of a bird … and the bird was chance.
— Frank Herbert
When God hath ordained a creature to die in a particular place. He causes that creature's wants to direct him to that place.
— Frank Herbert
God gives life and he takes life. Everybody who dies, dies because God wills that they die.
— John Piper
If you're too happy about anything, fate usually gives you a good sock in the jaw and knocks you down.
— Madeleine L'Engle
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.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Success in love is mostly luck, though we hate to admit.
— Marty Rubin
You were born for a reason and with a specific purpose in mind. You don't choose it, you discover it.
— Mensah Oteh
The worm's bad luck is the bird's good fortune.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The image he bears decides his destiny.
— Andrew Murray