Quotes About Playing With Fate

#1. Personally, I would say the 'master' of this whole thing is fate ... Whoever is on the playing field is fair game, and it's up to them to avoid being used.

Cliff Burton

#2. Come in, Bean. Come in Julian Delphiki, longed-for child of good and loving parents. Come in, kidnapped child, hostage of fate. Come and talk to the Fates, who are playing such clever little games with your life.

Orson Scott Card

#3. Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.

George Orwell

#4. An evil fate has deprived me of the full use of my right hand, so that I am not able to play my compositions as I feel them. The trouble with my hand is that certain fingers have become so weak, probably through writing and playing too much at one time, that I can hardly use them.

Robert Schumann

#5. It was like she had been playing 'nhodo' with her life, foolishly trying to outsmart an imaginary playmate named Fate.

Panashe Chigumadzi

#6. This is where the gods play games with the lives of men, on a board which is at one and the same time a simple playing area and the whole world. And Fate always wins.

Terry Pratchett

#7. It was fate, I thought. Just fate. We think we control our own lives, but the gods play with us like children playing with straw dolls.

Bernard Cornwell

#8. No ... we're not playing God. We're only attempting to set things right.

Clyde DeSouza

#9. Some people say that you should not tempt fate and for them I cannot disagree, but I never learned anything from playing it safe. I say fate should not tempt me.

Mary Chapin Carpenter

#10. Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out til too late that he's been playing with two queens all along.

Terry Pratchett

#11. Fate is playing a practical joke.

Kendare Blake

#12. My brother says that I was writing songs about fate while he was off playing soccer. Now I tell him he's 33 and being a professional while I'm playing soccer with my friends. Ha!

Alanis Morissette

#13. Fate was playing my hand for me and for once in my life I knew better than not to go ahead and let it.

Elaine Dundy