Quotes of: Fates Keyword

It seems to me further, that it is very odd that fate should leave so careful a trail, and spend so little time preparing the one that must follow it.

The Blue Sword

Wherever you go in the next catastrophé Be it sickroom, or prison, or cemet’ry Do not fear that your stay will be solit’ry Countless souls share your fate, you’ll have company!

The Basement Trains

All human plans [are] subject to ruthless revision by Nature, or Fate, or whatever one preferred to call the powers behind the Universe.

2010: Odyssey Two

It takes a strong person to stand up to his or her fate and overcome the obstacles that stand in the way of freedom and success, but I believe in you.

The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure

that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That's the world's greatest lie.

The Alchemist

The festivity had reached that apogee of joy when you face the happy fate of being crushed to death.

The Attack on the Mill and Other Stories

Fate is just another word for people's choices coming to a head. Destiny, coincidence, whatever you name it. It inevitably lies in our hands.

How to Kill a Rock Star

We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.

The Hundred Secret Senses

Consequently, any boy who appeared at such a time was bound to carry a certain weight, a sort of saving grace, a fateful gravity.

A Horse Named Sorrow

I guess the sacrifice of my dignity is the only thing that will save us now. The things I endure for love. The Fates laugh at my torment.

The Iron King

Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.

Jane Eyre

All my heart is yours, sir: it belongs to you; and with you it would remain, were fate to exile the rest of me from your presence forever.

Jane Eyre

The long years had taught him that everything worked itself out given enough time, and some things would always be the way fate wished them to be.

The Jaded Hunter

Surely if we knew what bitterness fate held in store, we would shrink back in fear and let the cup of life pass us by untasted.

Kushiel's Dart

You have to want to make a film for other reasons - to say something, to tell a story, to show somebody's fate - but you can't want to make a film simply for the sake of it.

Kieslowski on Kieslowski

I will always buy extra yarn. I will not try to tempt fate.

At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much

Follow your fate, and be satisfied with it, and be glad not to be a second-hand motor salesman, or a yellow-press journalist, pickled in gin and nicotine, or a cripple - or dead.

From Russia With Love

I was just a girl again, but this girl didn’t owe her strength to fate or chance or a grand destiny. I’d been born with my power; the rest I’d earned.

Ruin and Rising

Life is stranger than any of us expected, There is a somber, imponderable fate. Enigma rules, and the heart has no certainty.

Selected Poems, 1930-1965

Every part of life changes with every breath we take. If you don’t like where your story is headin’, you fight your fate with everything you have.

Sacrifice

Horrible the fate of the advice-giver in our culture: to repeat oneself in a thousand contexts until death, or irrelevance.             * I abjure advice-giver.

Star Dust