Fate quotations

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◆ Whatever happens, they say afterwards, it must have been fate. People are always a little confused about this, as they are in the case of miracles. When someone is saved from certain death by a strange concatenation of circumstances, they say that's a miracle. But of course if someone is killed by a freak chain of events -- the oil spilled just there, the safety fence broken just there -- that must also be a miracle. Just because it's not nice doesn't mean it's not miraculous.

- Terry Pratchett99

◆ Do you ever wonder why things have to turn out the way they do?

- Nicholas Sparks99

◆ ... it was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.

- Joseph Conrad99

◆ You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.

- Goldie Hawn99

◆ I'm not absolutely certain of the facts, but I rather fancy it's Shakespeare who says that it's always just when a fellow is feeling particularly braced with things in general that Fate sneaks up behind him with the bit of lead piping.

- P.G. Wodehouse99

◆ We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die.

- Douglas Coupland99

◆ We can't choose our fate, but we can choose others. Be careful in knowing that.

- J.K. Rowling99

◆ All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

- Seán O'Casey99

◆ Happiness, you see, its just an illusion of Fate, a heavenly sleight of hand designed to make you believe in fairy tales. But there's no happily ever after. You'll only find happy endings in books. Some books.

- Ellen Hopkins99

◆ I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

- Hermann Hesse99

◆ I thought about one of my favorite Sufi poems, which says that God long ago drew a circle in the sand exactly around the spot where you are standing right now. I was never not coming here. This was never not going to happen.

- Elizabeth Gilbert99

◆ Fate loves the fearless.

- James Russell Lowell99

◆ But that was life: Nobody got a guided tour to their own theme park. You had to hop on the rides as they presented themselves, never knowing whether you would like the one you were in line for...or if the bastard was going to make you throw up your corn dog and your cotton candy all over the place.

- J.R. Ward99

◆ Sometimes when you let things be as they are...God will unfold possibilities that you never thought existed.

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◆ Distance cant stop whats meant to be.

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