Unless, of course, there's no such thing as chance;...in which case, we should either-optimistically-get up and cheer, because if everything is planned… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Timing. We give it many names: Destiny, Fate, Kismet, the will of God. Whatever we call it, lives are changed and molded… — Helen Van Slyke Copy Share Image
From Mother you will inherit the belief that you can journey to your fate, there's a place to be located on a… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
And this is woman's fate: all her affections are called into life by winning flatteries, and then thrown back upon themselves to… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
“Gansey galloped down the hill to snatch the telescope from her. “This isn’t that heavy,” he told her, and strode back the… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
The fate of a single man can be rich with significance, that of a few hundred less so, but the history of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To our Palestinian neighbours, I assure you that we have a genuine intention to respect your right to live independently and in… — Ariel Sharon Copy Share Image
“She didn’t want her life to end. She didn’t want to feed the fishies. Apparently, fate didn’t want her to pollute the… — Eve Langlais Copy Share Image
We might not know we are seeking people who best enrich our lives, but somehow on a deep subconscious level we absolutely… — Simon Pegg Copy Share Image
In the Roman world, and in the worlds around it that Romans sought to subdue and control, the gods were merciless, frivolous,… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
Long ago it was said that 'one half of the world does not know how the other half lives.' That was true… — Jacob August Riis Copy Share Image
I, too, was carrying around my own fate. All the things I couldn't know sat somewhere inside, embroidered into me-maybe not quite… — Amanda Lindhout Copy Share Image
“And he knew he would not be travelling home. If he had to wear a donkey jacket and wait for fifty years,… — Antal Szerb Copy Share Image
No matter how children came to be living with just one parent, they need to be told, again and again, that your… — Marge M. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Eliphas never abandoned his belief that the fate of man is the result of justice, that we do not know all our… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
“It happens that over a long period you are promised a great success, in which from the very start you do not… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“But instead of this peace which I dared to expect, what anguish has weighed down my days! To become the perpetual plaything… — François-René de Chateaubriand Copy Share Image
I've lived to bury my desires and see my dreams corrode with rust now all that's left are fruitless fires that burn… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“People can waste a large amount of their time trying to be accepted by people. Sometimes, God meant for you not to… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Investors, monarchies, and parliamentarians devised methods to control the processes of wealth accumulation and the power that came with it, but the… — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Copy Share Image
The opportunity to love a dog and to treat it with kindness is an opportunity for a lost and selfish heart to… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“You could see a man talking to himself as just plain crazy, or read about the criminal on the front page of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“...Mr. Hardie had little patience with that sort of conversation."Ye're born, ye suffer, and ye die. What made ye think ye deserved… — Charlotte Rogan Copy Share Image
“Compton Gage, a Spiritual breed faction who seeks to restore early days of glory through Spiritual Warfare, a holy war directed against… — Compton Gage Copy Share Image
“If I die this instant will you be more content with the morning news? Will your coffee taste better? I am not… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
If Labour ends up on the scrapheap of history, it will do so because of its own foolishness and self-inflicted wounds. What… — Betty Boothroyd Copy Share Image
“The gene contains a single 'word', repeated over and over again: CAG, CAG, CAG, CAG ... The repetition continues sometimes just six… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
People who write about technology love to huff and puff and hyperbolize. The fate of the entire world seems to hang on… — Daniel Lyons Copy Share Image
I trust that you will so live today as to realize that you are masters of your own destiny, masters of your… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
Sometimes the reading is related to something I do, sometimes it's not. I feel like every time I read something, there's a… — eL Seed Copy Share Image
There are those hearts, reader, that never mend again once they are broken. Or if they do mend, they heal themselves in… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
“We don’t escape our pasts, you know,” Madd said. He sounded defeated. “Never. We can never escape what we are.” “Maybe not.… — Tali Spencer Copy Share Image
“Now that you’re here, now that they know you exist, you’ll never be free again. Ever. We’re prisoners to our books, our… — Angela Parkhurst Copy Share Image
In our time, the great task for libertarians is to find an escape from politics in all its forms—from the totalitarian and… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
See thou, whatsoever be thy name -- whether Fate, Life, or Devil! I cast thee down my gauntlet, I challenge thee to… — Leonid Andreyev Copy Share Image
Fate is a story that's been written for you by somebody else. By your parent's genes, by what happened to you when… — Alberto Villoldo Copy Share Image
“Luck, normalcy, fate ... none of those seemed to be on our side. Our very being together went against all the odds.… — Amy Plum Copy Share Image
Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today: Be fair or foul or rain or shine, The joys I have possessed… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
It is funny, but it strikes me that a person without anecdotes that they nurse while they live, and that survive them,… — Sebastian Barry Copy Share Image
“If you call your failures and all the bad things happen to you a destiny; or similarly, you call all the good… — JOHN TASKINSOY Copy Share Image