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| Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will. ~ Jawaharlal Nehru |
| Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny. ~ Kin Hubbard |
On a windswept hill
by a billowing sea,
my destiny sits
and waits for me.
~ Robert Brault |
| Failure and success seem to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star or against it, and in the whole universe the only really interesting movement is this wriggle. ~ E.M. Forester |
| If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow. ~ William McFee |
| Sometimes, perhaps, we are allowed to get lost that we may find the right person to ask directions of. ~ Robert Brault |
| There’s much to be said for challenging fate instead of ducking behind it. ~ Diana Trilling |
| He that is born to be hanged shall never be drowned. ~ Author Unknown |
| Fate laughs at probabilities. ~ E.G. Bulwer-Lytton |
They… who await
No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
~ Matthew Arnold |
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| A door that seems to stand open must be a man’s size, or it is not the door that Providence means for him. ~ Henry Ward Beecher |
| A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it. ~ Jean de La Fontaine |
| The last I heard from my destiny, it wanted me to make a legal U-Turn at my next opportunity. ~ Robert Brault |
| Angels deliver Fate to our doorstep – and anywhere else it is needed. ~ Jessi Lane Adams |
| We cannot bear to regard ourselves simply as playthings of blind chance; we cannot admit to feeling ourselves abandoned. ~ Ugo Betti, |
| There is no fate but your own fate. ~ Terri Guillemets |
| Alas, by the time Fate caught up with my life, Chance had it all planned. ~ Robert Brault |
| Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant, filled with odd waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don’t always like. ~ Lemony Snicket |
| Coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous. ~ Albert Einstein |
| No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune. ~ Plutarch |
| Fate, Chance, God’s Will – we all try to account for our lives somehow. What are the chances that two raindrops, flung from the heavens, will merge on a windowpane? Gotta be Fate. ~ Robert Brault |