Thursday, October 13, 2011

Quotations about Fate

Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will. ~Jawaharlal Nehru


Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny. ~Kin Hubbard


On a windswept hill
by a billowing sea,
my destiny sits
and waits for me.
~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


Failure and success seem to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star or against it, and in the whole universe the only really interesting movement is this wriggle. ~E.M. Forester


If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow. ~William McFee


Sometimes, perhaps, we are allowed to get lost that we may find the right person to ask directions of. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


There's much to be said for challenging fate instead of ducking behind it. ~Diana Trilling


He that is born to be hanged shall never be drowned. ~Author Unknown


Fate laughs at probabilities. ~E.G. Bulwer-Lytton


They... who await
No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
~Matthew Arnold, "Resignation," 1849


A door that seems to stand open must be a man's size, or it is not the door that Providence means for him. ~Henry Ward Beecher


A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it. ~Jean de La Fontaine


The last I heard from my destiny, it wanted me to make a legal U-Turn at my next opportunity. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


Angels deliver Fate to our doorstep - and anywhere else it is needed. ~Jessi Lane Adams


We cannot bear to regard ourselves simply as playthings of blind chance; we cannot admit to feeling ourselves abandoned. ~Ugo Betti, Struggle till Dawn, 1949


You know that saying, that when God closes a door he opens a window, well, sometimes out of nowhere he'll do you one better and he'll kick a whole wall down. ~Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, and Ian Brennan, Glee, "Furt"


Alas, by the time Fate caught up with my life, Chance had it all planned. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


There is an unseen life that dreams us. It knows our true direction and destiny. We can trust ourselves more than we realize and we need have no fear of change. ~John O'Donohue


Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. ~Steve Jobs


It is sad when two people turn from the paths they're traveling, and their paths go on to cross without them. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant, filled with odd waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like. ~Lemony Snicket


Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous. ~Albert Einstein


Our destiny hides among our free choices, disguised as the free-est of all. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate. ~Lucan


No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune. ~Plutarch


Fate, Chance, God's Will - we all try to account for our lives somehow. What are the chances that two raindrops, flung from the heavens, will merge on a windowpane? Gotta be Fate. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

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