I am on my way, and tell him he better watch his ass!”…

Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things.

— Fergus Henderson

When you have counted eighty years and more, Time and Fate will batter at your door; But if you should survive to be a…

— Khushwant Singh

“To be a Sufi is to detach from fixed ideas and from preconceptions; and not to try to avoid what is your lot.”

— Idries Shah

Man blindly works the will of fate. [Ger., Blindlings that er blos den Willen des Geschickes.]

— Christoph Martin Wieland

Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind.

— Horace

Real chessplayers think about chess more or less 24 hours a day. It is a passion and a fate that one has to live…

— Simen Agdestein

Holy shadows of the dead, I'm not to blame for your cruel and bitter fate, but the accursed rivalry which brought sister nations and…

— Alexander the Great

You can't choose what stays and what stays away.

— Florence Welch

“In that instant it all seemed to come clear to him- it came in a grisly flash of light, and he realized that the…

— Stephen King

“Fate and future both are servant to the determined, for they are nothing but creation of human determination.”

— Abhijit Naskar

My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my…

— Aldous Huxley

“What would have been the fate of sages if there were no fools?”

— Ogwo David Emenike

“I’ve always seen this in you, ever since you were a little girl — this hunger to love other people into their highest selves…

— Jennifer Elisabeth

“God has a way of picking a “nobody” and turning their world upside down, in order to create a “somebody” that will remove the…

— Shannon L. Alder

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

— Joseph Bruchac