The fate of love is that it is always too little or too…

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