Fate And Circumstance Quotes

#1. But fate and circumstance had made me no more than a shadow in his life, a phantom of what might have been

Daphne Du Maurier

#2. You think saving someone's life cancels out taking another person's life? In terms of fate and circumstance, yes. In terms of retribution and contrition, no.

Cassia Leo

#3. Among the humble and great alike, those who achieve success do so not because fate and circumstance are especially kind to them. Often the reverse is true. They succeed because they do not whine over their fate but take whatever has been given to them and go on to make the most of their best.

Sidney Greenberg

#4. When confronted with iron-will determination, I can see Time, Fate and Circumstance calling a hasty conference and deciding, We might as well let him have his dream. He's said he's going to get there or die trying.

Jim Rohn

#5. Call it fate, destiny, call it luck you ended up with me
But some things are meant to be
Coincidence, circumstance
Or something bigger thats just out of our hands
But some things are meant to be

Sammy Kershaw

#6. Sometimes the slightest things change the directions of our lives, the merest breath of a circumstance, a random moment that connects like a meteorite striking the earth. Lives have swiveled and changed direction on the strength of a chance remark.

Bryce Courtenay

#7. There's an alternate view. That no man or woman alive is the disempowered victim of another's degrading circumstance. Each is equipped to pursue their own fate. No one needs saving.

Janny Wurts

#8. Instead of being ashamed of what you've been through, be proud of what you have overcome!

Phil McGraw

#9. Ashes to ashes. Dust to dust. We are nothing, but dust and to dust we shall return. Amen.

Alexander Anderson

#10. While it is easy to get caught up in the beliefs and attitudes of others, it is easier still to make one's self a victim of circumstance. Victims of circumstance believe they have no power over their lives, since they are merely the play-things of fate. Since they believe this, it is therefore so.

Stephen Richards

#11. The world doesn't change because the sun sets and rises. We can either adapt to survive our circumstance or we can change it. And I know we can't control fate, but I'm sure not going to spend whatever time I have left sitting around and waiting for my life to get better.

Caroline George

#12. It troubles him to consider the powerful currents and fine-tuning that alter fate, the close and distant influences, the accidents of character and circumstance.

Ian McEwan

#13. Do not miss the purpose of this life, and do not wait for circumstance to mold or change you fate.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#14. No fate could rob us of our own
No circumstance can make it less;
What time removes was but a loan,
For what was ours we still possess.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#15. They say that depression is anger you turn on yourself, and I think women do that.

Mary Harron

#16. When I met you on the beach, it was chance. When we sat together at the bonfire, it was circumstance; but when you fell in love with me, it was fate.

Mia Castile

#17. Jiu Jitsu gives each of us something that no other sport can. We have the opportunity to become truly great regardless of what circumstance fate has handed us. We have complete freedom and responsibility to achieve whatever level of mastery we wish.

Chris Matakas

#18. That men would die was a matter of necessity; which men would die, though, was a matter of circumstance, and Yossarian was willing to be the victim of anything but circumstance.

Joseph Heller

#19. It's something I call an invisible thread. It is, as the old Chinese proverb tells us, something that connects two people who are destined to meet, regardless of time and place and circumstance. Some legends call it the red string of fate; others, the thread of destiny.

Laura Schroff

#20. I won't apologize for my past. A man is supposed to have experience."
"From all indications, you've acquired enough for ten men.

Lisa Kleypas

#21. Ah, Catylast, can it be that you do not see all the changes you have made? Some by your resignation and acceptance of circumstance, some by your wild struggles. You say that you hate change, but you *are* change.
The Fool in Fool's Fate

Robin Hobb

#22. Archer had always been inclined to think that chance and circumstance played a small part in shaping people's lots compared with their innate tendency to have things happen to them.

Edith Wharton

#23. You saw me bludgeoned by circumstance.
Lost, injured, hurt by chance.
I screamed to the heavens ... loudly screamed ...
Trying to change our nightmares into dreams ...

Maya Angelou

#24. No one is going to abduct me, Rae." "That's what all abductees say.

Lisa Lutz

#25. Everyone is blind in a blank room.

Sofie Alberts

#26. We can spend our days bemoaning our losses, or we can grow from them. Ultimately the choice is ours. We can be victims of circumstance or masters of our own fate, but make no mistake, we cannot be both.
The Walk - Epilogue Page 288

Richard Paul Evans

#27. The best laid schemes o' mice an' men gang aft agley.

Robert Burns

#28. I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts.

Stephen King

#29. There is no such thing as a dangerous woman; there are only susceptible men.

Joseph Wood Krutch

#30. Whose fault is it that things ended up like this? Coincidence? An accident? Fate? There's no such thing as fate. It's simply a combination of one circumstance and the next. And who is it that creates those circumstances? Who is it? It's you.

Sui Ishida

#31. In cold weather states like Vermont, where the weather can get to 20 below zero, home heating assistance is critically important. In fact, it is a life and death issue.

Bernie Sanders

#32. The unconscious fabric of human destiny had done with her, unraveling all her grievances and reweaving them as joyous circumstance.

Michelle Franklin