Top 100 Quotes About Fates
#1. Who are we, really? Are our souls shaped, our fates written in full by God, before we draw our first breath? Do we make ourselves, by the choices we our selves make? Or are we clay merely, that is molded and pushed into the shape that our betters propose for us?
Geraldine Brooks
#2. The fates lead her who will; who won't they drag.
Tom Spanbauer
#3. Twelve years ago I made a mock
Of filthy trades and traffics;
I considered what they meant by stock;
I wrote delightful sapphics;
I knew the streets of Rome and Troy,
I supped with fates and Fairies
Twelve years ago I was a boy,
A happy boy at Drury's.
Winthrop Mackworth Praed
#4. A gamble. Everything was a damn gamble. Betting against luck and the Fates, again and again, and again. She kept walking, waiting for the bullet.
Paolo Bacigalupi
#5. There is never only one way!" Zeus bellowed. "That is why there are three Fates, not one.
Rick Riordan
#6. Sometimes, our fates are no longer ours to decide, and we can only grip our fists until our knuckles turn white and hang on for the rest of the ride.
Chris Jones
#8. The reason that I keep writing is that all my most powerful messages about the fates of wild places that I care about need to have words as well as images.
Galen Rowell
#9. The fates have informed me that your examination in June will concern the Orb, and I am anxious to give you sufficient practice.
Hermione snorted.
Well honestly ... 'the fates have informed her' ... Who sets the exam? She does!
J.K. Rowling
#10. Parents are supposed to pass down physical traits to their children, but it's my belief that all sorts of other things get passed down, too: motifs, scenarios, even fates.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#11. The horrors of the Inquisition are nothing compared to the fates your mind can imagine for your loved ones.
Stephen King
#12. We are all the authors of our own fates; but we have gotten so lost in the technicalities of forming letters and stringing words together that we've forgotten what it really means to write.
Cristen Rodgers
#13. Ahab is for ever Ahab, man. This whole act's immutably decreed. 'Twas rehearsed by thee and me a billion years before this ocean rolled. Fool! I am the Fates' lieutenant, I act under orders.
Herman Melville
#14. We are willing to lose ourselves in another as we exchange fates with one whom we love but on whom our heart is nevertheless impaled.
Alexander Theroux
#15. These have no hope that death will overcome.
And so degraded is the life they lead
all look with envy on all other fates.
Dante Alighieri
#16. Jove lifts the golden balances that show
The fates of mortal men, and things below.
Homer
#19. And I would tell him, as we rise into the air, The curse is not that we cannot choose our Fates.
The curse, the curse we all live under, is that we can.
Alexander Chee
#20. Fate. Sounds romantic."
"You must not know anything about mythology, then, Mr. McQueen. In all the old myths, the Fates were the villains.
Tiffany Reisz
#21. There are no plans, just people fooling themselves by attempting to design their fates and futures. It makes them feel invincible, even if it's for a transient period of time.
Kanza Javed
#22. In our society mothers take the place elsewhere occupied by the Fates, the System, Negroes, Communism or Reactionary Imperialist Plots; mothers go on getting blamed until they're eighty, but shouldn't take it personally.
Katharine Whitehorn
#23. Maybe, if I had lied all those years ago, my life could have followed a very different path. But as it is I faithfully follow the long, long thread the Fates have woven for me.
Rosie Pugh
#25. The goodwill that surrounded us was proof that the Fates were conspiring to help their enthusiastic children.
Patti Smith
#26. There's nothing or no one here that could possibly hurt the Fates - right, Mina?
Chanda Hahn
#27. As children grow, they gravitate to their fates.
Mitch Albom
#28. If you have a boat to sail, land becomes a choice! If you do not have a boat to sail, land becomes a fate! Create different choices so that you can have different fates!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#29. The Fates guide the person who accepts them and hinder the person who resists them.
Cleanthes
#30. The thing I'm trying to ignore. The thing I shouldn't want, the thing I can't have.
And he's standing in front of me right now.
So what do I wish for? Something I'm not sure I want? Someone I'm not sure I need? Or someone I know I can't have?
Screw it. Let the fates decide.
Stephanie Perkins
#31. What is a fiction writer after all, but a judge, a dispenser of justice, an arranger of fates, an agent, above all, of moral order?
Jonathan Dee
#32. Are you mad? (Artemis)
Yes, I am. Mad at this world where we are nothing to the gods. Mad at the Fates who put us here for no purpose except to toy with us for their petty amusement. I wish all of the gods were dead and gone. (Acheron)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#33. The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
Seneca The Younger
#34. I have had another thought on such fates that denies neither gods nor man. Perhaps, instead of controlling every step, the gods have started a hundred or a thousand Cazarils and Umegats down this road, and only those arrive who choose to.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#35. The strangest sight was the old giant Thoon, who was getting bludgeoned to death by three old ladies with brass clubs - the Fates, armed for war.
Rick Riordan
#36. The raging rocks And shivering shocks Shall break the locks Of prison gates: And Phibbus' car Shall shine from far, And make and mar The foolish Fates.
William Shakespeare
#38. They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.
D.H. Lawrence
#39. We find our calling or it finds us, and it's a sin against the fates not to use your talent when you have it.
Erica Jong
#40. There are no fates I cannot change, but this fate is one I cannot change without you. You are my strength, Rain. You are the courage I've always lacked."
He gave a choked laugh, and tears glittered in his eyes. "If I am your courage, then why does this idea of yours leave me so frightened?
C.L. Wilson
#41. The general welcomes Tamburlaine receiv'd, When he arrived last upon the 1 stage, Have made our poet pen his Second Part, Where Death cuts off the progress of his pomp, And murderous Fates throw all his triumphs 2 down. But what became of fair
Christopher Marlowe
#42. After a childhood of hungering to be an adult, my hunger had passed. Unexpected fates had begun to catch my notice. These middle-aged women seemed very tired to me, as if hope had been wrung out of them and replaced with a deathly, walking sort of sleep.
Lorrie Moore
#43. Providence has given human wisdom the choice between two fates: either hope and agitation, or hopelessness and calm.
Yevgeny Baratynsky
#44. I can only say that one's individual situation is more real and important to oneself than the devastations of fates and empires especially when they do not vitally affect oneself.
Isaac Rosenberg
#45. Consider the whole universe whereof thou art but a very little part, and the whole age of the world together, whereof but a short and very momentary portion is allotted unto thee, and all the fates and destinies together, of which how much is it that comes to thy part and share.
Marcus Aurelius
#46. He imagined the Fates up in Olympus, laughing at his wishful thinking: LOL, NOOB!
Rick Riordan
#47. Everyone, who is born on this earth, comes with a destiny assigned to him. But there are few whose fates become their fortune, like in the case of Dr Abdul Kalam.
Renu Saran
#48. Men make their own fates - it's personal, not a matter for debate.
Janet Morris
#49. But then again, chance has nothing to do with it. Your two fates did not cross through mere happenstance. The two of you set foot in this world because you were meant to enter it. And now that you have entered it, like it or not, each of you will be assigned your proper role here.
Haruki Murakami
#50. Believing that, for the most part, our actions determine our fates in life can only spur us to work harder; and when we see this hard work pay off, our belief in ourselves only grows stronger.
Shawn Achor
#51. I was wrong, however, to suppose that Sellers thought the world revolved around him. He thought the cosmos did too, and history, and the fates ... Like every egomaniac, he behaved as if everybody else spent their day being as interested in him as he was.
Clive James
#53. One cannot properly appreciate the human realities so long as one labors under the adolescent delusion that people get the fates they deserve.
Nicholas Rescher
#54. With every sunrise, we get to choose ... who we are, what we believe, and how we will live the life the gods have given us. We can't always choose our circumstances. No. The Fates do that. But we can always choose who we will be and how we will be within them.
Nicole Y. Walters
#55. Under the idea that we can all make our own fates, that we have choices, is the reminder that sometimes we don't. That sometimes life is bigger than our plans. Bigger than us.
Elizabeth Scott
#56. In truth, we were similar. Like two sides of a fan, we were at odds with each other, we competed with each other, but our fates similarly rested in the hands of the Emperor--the holder, the commander, the manipulator of our destinies.
Weina Dai Randel
#57. That's the problem with fiction - or the charm, if you want. Even mediocre plots have a way of sinking their hooks into you, until you find yourself concerned for the fates of characters who aren't even fully convincing.
Charles McGrath
#58. Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.
William Shakespeare
#59. I tried very hard. But I can't help it. The Fates are cruel. They sent you to me, my brave one, knowing that you would break my heart.
Rick Riordan
#60. The Fates, like an absent-minded printer, seldom allow a single line to stand perfect and unmarred.
George Santayana
#61. 'Robopocalypse' explores the intertwined fates of regular people who face a future filled with murderous machines. It follows them as humanity foments the robot uprising, fails to recognize the coming storm, and then is rocked to the core by methodical, crippling attacks.
Daniel H. Wilson
#62. We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, never to be undone.
William James
#63. A dead afternoon in a dark bar was not the worst of fates.
Don DeLillo
#64. sent you to him, Alexei, because I thought your brotherly countenance would help him. But everything is from the Lord, and all our fates as well. 'Except
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#65. I guess we all decide our children's fates just by making our own life decisions,
Veronica Roth
#66. But men inspired by prophecy will attempt any foolishness in the knowledge that the fates have ordained their victory.
Bernard Cornwell
#67. We are not victims of our genes, but masters of our fates, able to create lives overflowing with peace, happiness, and love.
Bruce H. Lipton
#68. We have an idea - a very modern idea - that dying is undignified. But I think this is because we have the illusion that we can control our bodies and our fates.
Meghan O'Rourke
#69. He struggled to breathe through the agony in his chest. The Fates were still mocking him. It must be a boring day for them up on Olympus.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#70. Life was a random mass of unforeseeable coincidences that governed men's fates like a storm that strikes without warning, causing injury and death.
Arnaldur Indridason
#71. The Fates teleported me to the ascended angels staff lounge. It wasn't called that, naturally. We weren't staff. This wasn't a job. It was a calling. An honor. A noble mission. Bullshit.
Kelley Armstrong
#72. A man with no one to revere, Julian said, is a man alone.' At that moment, he seemed to consider such loneliness the worst of fates, a sentence he would not have imposed upon the vilest man on earth. And yet, at times, I thought now, he had seemed to impose that very loneliness upon himself.
Thomas H. Cook
#73. Human beings suffer agonies, and their sad fates become legends; poets write verses about them and playwrights compose dramas, and the remembrance of past grief becomes a source of present pleasure - such is the strange alchemy of the spirit.
Upton Sinclair
#74. Perhaps she was happiest when she was out of control. She looked at the fates and said three little words, not one regret.
Lawren Leo
#75. A rune for the very bored: when very bored say to yourself: It was during the next twenty minutes that there occurred one of those tiny incidents which revolutionizes the whole course of our life and alter the face of history. Truly we are the playthings of enormous fates.
Cyril Connolly
#76. Worse fates than being forced into a place where your choice of acts is limited to those where your soul burns brightest.
Richard K. Morgan
#77. She realized that the world was a dance of a million fates. In this dance she was but a single soul.
David Anthony Durham
#78. The ones who lived, who truly lived, they make an imprint on our lives. They leave their mark in our hearts. They change the course of our fates and our destinies. Those are the real heroes. The ones who cared enough for a human being that they rewrote their futures."
- Alastor Moody
Mordred
#79. Whatever we decide we don't want in life (whether it's dating, houses, neighborhoods, jobs, partners, or dogs), the fates usually intervene to open our eyes and prove us wrong.
Danielle Steel
#81. The world is getting too small for both an Us and a Them. Us and Them have become codependent, intertwined, fixed to one another. We have no separate fates, but are bound together in one. And our fear of one another is the only thing capable of our undoing.
Sam Killermann
#82. What will it do to Jimmy's state of mind if he opens his eyes and sees three of his former beloveds bending over him like the three Fates? Demanding his everlasting love, his apologies, his blood in a cat food saucer?
Margaret Atwood
#83. Give up the dream that Love may trick the fates To live again somewhere beyond the gleam Of dying stars, or shatter the strong gates Some god has builded high; give up the dream.
Don Marquis
#84. Our fates are locked together. It would be foolish of me to anger God by leaving you.
Mark Tompkins
#85. It is past time for women to take their rightful place, side by side with men, in the rooms where the fates of peoples, where their children's and grandchildren's fates, are decided.
Hillary Clinton
#86. The fates lead him who will; him who won't they drag.
- The Greatness of Saturn
Robert E. Svoboda
#87. [Percy] kept hoping things would get better for Annabeth and him, but their lives just got more dangerous, as if the Three Fates were up there spinning their futures with barbed wire instead of thread just to see how much two demigods could tolerate.
Rick Riordan
#88. There's a Chinese saying that the fates are winds that blow through our lives from every angle, urging us along the paths of time.
Anonymous
#89. The fates lead those who will those who won't they drag.
Seneca.
#90. Humanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men's fates are in their own hands - a faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
John Galsworthy
#91. Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions. Only in the conduct of our action can we find the sense of mastery over the Fates.
Joseph Conrad
#92. I'm an action player. I like to be aggressive. I don't like to be on the run. I like to feel like I have the fates in my hands and that through my skill or lack thereof I control my fate.
Eugene Jarvis
#94. Odd, but no matter how high you rise in the halls of power, it's impossible to escape the conviction that our collective fates are largely determined by the petty jealousies of overgrown adolescents.
Daniel Polansky
#95. The men of the east may search the scrolls,
For sure fates and fame,
But the men that drink the blood of God go singing to their shame.
G.K. Chesterton
#96. ...At that moment, our fates entwined, Roses. I know not why, but I know it to be true - I am bound to you forevermore. There is nothing to regret.
Juliette Miller
#97. We are all subject to the fates. But we must act as if we are not, or die of despair.
Philip Pullman
#98. Since the beginning, the Fates determined which souls would be born, what kinds of lives they would live, and for how many days. They did this out of duty, out of destiny, and without emotion.
Nicole Y. Walters
#99. The Fates but only spin the coarser clue; The finest of the wool is left for you.
John Dryden
#100. As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
Walter Scott
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