“Maybe fate's arithmetic is so diffuse that it's not arithmetic at all.” — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Things are where things are, and, as fate has willed, So shall they be fulfilled. — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
“What in the world could this family have done to deserve a fate such as this?” — Michael Jay Copy Share Image
A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
When you meet that special someone you'll understand why it didn't work out with anyone else — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Will you be a reader, a student merely, or a seer? Read your fate, seewhat isbefore you, and walkon intofuturity. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“This isn’t ideal. Very few things are. Sometimes, you have to manufacture your own history. Give fate a push, so to speak.… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“But I knew better: No matter where you go, the past floods back. You can try like the dickens, but you can't… — Michael Lee West Copy Share Image
Or renounce life altogether! Accept fate obediently as it is, once and for all, and stifle everything in myself, renouncing any right… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Societies are healthiest when their radius of trust is broad and when people feel they can influence their own fate. — James Fallows Copy Share Image
Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not heaven itself… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Fate, at first so amenable, so reasonable, so open to negotiation, ends up by exacting a cruel revenge for happiness. — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
This is for you. A mage named Randal told me to give it to the Band if you ever came back. 'It… — Janet Morris Copy Share Image
The iron hand of necessity commands, and her stern decree is supreme law, to which the gods even must submit. In deep… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The fate of a battle is the result of a moment, of a thought: the hostile forces advance with various combinations, they… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
But I also think all of the great stories in literature deal with loneliness. Sometimes it's by way of heartbreak, sometimes it's… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
All tragedies deal with fated meetings; how else could there be a play? Fate deals its stroke; sorrow is purged, or turned… — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
No matter how extreme things get, it still has that ring of truth about it that backs the characters - even though… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
If you ever go behind the glass and look at the focus groups that are deciding what you're gonna watch, it's scary.… — Adrian Pasdar Copy Share Image
“Suppose two men at cards with nothing to wager save their lives. Who has not heard such a tale? A turn of… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Unlike most wars, which make rotten fiction in themselves - all plot and no characters, or made-up characters - Vietnam seems to… — Wilfrid Sheed Copy Share Image
