Fate shuffles the cards and we play.

Fate is the one that shuffles the cards, but we are the ones who play. So the future of a man is not written…

— William Shakespeare

“Destiny shuffles the cards, but we are the ones who must play the game.”

— Wally Lamb

Just when you think you're playing your cards right, God shuffles the deck.

— Mark Sheppard

“this is life and all there is of life; to play the game, to play the cards we get; play them uncomplainingly and play…

— Clarence Darrow

Women use lovers as they do cards; they play with them a while, and when they have got all they can by them, throw…

— Alexander Pope

Most of us weren't born with a silver spoon in our mouth, but if life dealt you all the wrong cards, you still have…

— Ivan Moody

“Because life is a game and we’re all just trading cards. We play the right hand to get ahead.”

— Karina Halle

I dont play any two suited cards. I play any two non-suited cards. That way I am drawing at two different flushes.

— Amarillo Slim

At the age of five years to enter a spinning-cotton or other factory, and from that time forth to sit there daily, first ten,…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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

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

— Abhijit Naskar

“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

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

— Florence Welch

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

— Christoph Martin Wieland

“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