Quotes about Fate

Charlotte read the preprinted slip. Redeemed. $1,000. She whirled around. "Wait, sir, excuse me, but how did you know . . ." But he was gone. Along with the crowd and the hum of voices. Charlotte stood completely alone except for the battered trunk and the glittering swirl in the air.

Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance.

America is another name for opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of divine providence on behalf of the human race.

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

Nobody chooses where they're born. And, of course, I would know.

Everything happens just like it's supposed to happen; you've just got to roll with it and keep moving forward.

Maybe I was born to be a merchant, maybe it was fate. I don't know about that. But I know this for sure: I loved retail from the very beginning.

True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do.

Yet seldom do they fail of their seed, And that will lie in the dust and rot to spring up again in times and places unlooked-for. The deeds of Men will outlast us.

And sing to those that hold the vital shears; And turn the adamantine spindle round, On which the fate of gods and men is wound.

Man created the checkerboard; God created the karass.

The lot assigned to every man is suited to him, and suits him to itself.