Contrary Quote by William Shakespeare

Our wills and fates do so contrary run, That our devices still are overthrown; Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own.

— William Shakespeare

It lies not in our power to love or hate, for will in us is overruled by fate.

— Christopher Marlowe

We are all subject to the fates. But we must act as if we are not, or die of despair.

— Philip Pullman

Our fates are in the hands of An Almighty God, to whom I can with pleasure confide my own; he can save us, or…

— Abraham Clark

Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.

— B. C. Forbes

For it is in our nature to endure patiently the decrees of fate, but not the ill-will of others.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Man blindly works the will of fate.

— Christoph Martin Wieland

Things are where things are, and, as fate has willed, So shall they be fulfilled.

— Robert Browning

Our individual fates are linked our futures intertwined

— Jimmy Carter

Oh, so seldom does fate cast our enemy into our hands, to do with as we will

— Donna Leon

And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.

— Alexander Pope

Fate isn’t one straight road…there are forks in it, many different routes to different ends. We have the free will to choose the path.

— Dean Koontz