No Fate Quotes

Ain't it funny how a moment could just change your life, and you don't want to face what's wrong or right. Ain't it strange how fate can play a part, in the story of your heart.

I feel like my mum is in heaven sharing a cup of tea with Lady Fate and plotting my life out like a chess game.

The fate of a song is often established in the first 15 minutes of writing.

The turn of a sentence has decided the fate of many a friendship, and, for aught that we know, the fate of many a kingdom.

Men plan. Fate Laughs. Guis Alera, First Lord

Because we are free, we can never be indifferent to the fate of freedom elsewhere.

I'm scared that if I collaborated on something with somebody, I would be in some way losing my own contact with what I was going and tempting fate.

Just because fate had thrown another obstacle in my way didn't mean I had to give up my dreams.

Whether or not you believe in Fate comes down to one thing: who do you blame when something goes wrong.

Does fate ever play by the rules?

We're mortal, yet without a known expiration date. It's an inevitable fate worthy of acceptance, but not deserving of predictions.

Three things characterize man: person, fate, merit--the harmony of these constitutes real grandeur.

Man, be he who he may, experiences a last piece of good fortune and a last day. [Ger., Der Mensch erfahrt, er sei auch wer er mag, Ein letztes Gluck und einen letzten Tag.]

My days are as happy as those reserved by God for his elect; and whatever be my fate hereafter, I can never say that I have not tasted joy— the purest joy of life.

Cursed Mammon be, when he with treasures To restless action spurs our fate! Cursed when for soft, indulgent leisures, He lays for us the pillows straight.

‎It has ever been my fate to give pain to those whose happiness I should have promoted.

Old noted oak! I saw thee in a mood Of vague indifference; and yet with me Thy memory, like thy fate, hath lingering stood For years, thou hermit, in the lonely sea Of grass that waves around thee!

Such is our pride, our folly, or our fate, That few, but such as cannot write, translate.

Forty years spent in wandering in a wilderness like that of the present is not a sad fate - unless one attempts to make himself believe that the wilderness is after all itself the promised land.

Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.

Did I help you to a fate you didn't want?

Everywhere man blames nature and fate, yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character, and passions, his mistakes, and weaknesses."--Democritus An Abundance of Katherines---John Green

Did I help you toward a fate you didn't want, Alaska, or did I just assist in your willful self-destruction?

The laws of changeless justice bind oppressor and oppressed; and, close as sin and suffering joined we march to fate abreast.

I think some orator commenting upon that fate said that though the winds of heaven might whistle around an Englishman's cottage, the King of England could not.

All the great things of life are swiftly done, Creation, death, and love the double gate. However much we dawdle in the sun We have to hurry at the touch of Fate.

He left it in thy power, ordaind thy will By nature free, not over-rul'd by Fate Inextricable, or strict necessity.

Intentions, good or bad, are not enough. There's luck or fate or something else that takes over.

Over a pint in the pub, you have a good moan That's the fate of every Magpie While Mam perfects her game show skills Giving talks at the WI

I don't think anyone is qualified to answer questions of eternal fate definitively, much less pinpoint it to a given day.

It'sthe fate of most Ping-Pong tables in home basements eventually to serve the ends of other, more desperate games.

This Day, whate'er the Fates decree; Shall still be kept with Joy by me: This Day then, let us not be told, That you are sick, and I grown old

Though fear should lend him pinions like the wind, yet swifter fate will seize him from behind.

Do we make ourselves into what we become or is it built into our genes, into the fate spun for us by whatever shapes events?

Who can control his fate? asks the ruined Othello. No one, indeed. But everyone controls his option, chooses his alternative.

On our current path, all our great Gulf and Atlantic coast cities are at risk of meeting the same fate as New Orleans.

Fate and necessity are unconquerable.

From Mother you will inherit the belief that you can journey to your fate, there's a place to be located on a map that's destiny. If only you can get there. If it isn't too late. If no one stops you.

Lady Madelyne had sealed her own fate. She'd warmed his feet.

Fate decides until challenged by the fated

The thing about fate is, are you the master of your fate, or are the stars?

the wheel of fate crushes us all

Fate is the opportunity. Choice is what you do with it.

All working, practical political systems, even those professing to originate in moral grandeur, are based upon and operate by contempt of human life and the individual fate.

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.

When good befalls a man he calls it Providence, when evil fate.

Fate has a way of getting what she wants, no matter how we try to avoid it.

Was there any fate more bitter than to get what you long for most, when it's too late?

Fate, I think, is a thief.

Fate,' I said, 'Is a theif.