The mantra of the makeover junkie, sucking it in, letting it out; unwilling to settle for genetic fate; waiting instead for her transformation...
But unlike Lachlan and Alison, my demons aren’t self-induced. My demons are fate’s way of telling me I won’t escape unscathed.
Fate might forgive greed, or gluttony, or even bloodlust, but it never ignores being ignored.
Fate has carried me 'Mid the thick arrows: I will keep my stand-- Not shrink and let the shaft pass by my breast To pierce another.
We create our fate every day . . . most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.
Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate.
America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description.
I was free, free from all the distress and angst i felt before. Her red string of fate was tied to someone else and my thread was broken.
Fate is never too generous even to its favorites. Rarely do the gods grant a mortal more than one immortal deed.
Is Wall Street the rightful master of our economic fate? Or should we choose a broader form of sovereignty?
I am the Lilum. Time. Truth. Destiny. The Endless River. The Wheel of Fate. You do not command me.
No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation.
What interests me is the surprising enormous extent to which most people accept the fate that's been given to them, and find some dignity.
There's something about the impact of a big screen that means something to me, even though I realize almost every film is fated to be seen for a year in theaters, and then forever after on television.
The event of the landing of these brethren upon our shores is to be, not without its beneficial effect, as well to the colored population of this country, as it promises to be to ill-fated Africa.
Here was the puppeteer who was pulling strings all over the Empire. Didn’t he know that the Fates were the only ones who could tweak the threads of destiny?
There is nothing cooler than having lines like, 'Batman, the fate of the world is upon us.' Who gets to say that? And who gets to say that in a deep, earnest, amazingly sexy way?
With the world's fate resting on your shoulder - you're gonna need someone on your side. You can't do it by yourself any longer - you're gonna need someone on your side.
Obviously, we're all going to die at some point. Whether or not we are fated to die in some way I think is debatable. I just don't know which side to debate.
Even chance meetings are the result of karma… Things in life are fated by our previous lives. That even in the smallest events there’s no such thing as coincidence.
But what all these responses have in common is that they point to the decisive power of information and stories [...]
