Browsing Quotes With Tag: fate (11)
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I always say, if you must go to the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin to the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips. – Birgitte
Speaker: Robert JordanSource: the Fires of HeavenPosted: 26 Dec 2009 at 10:40 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Fate rarely calls upon us at a moment of our choosing.
Speaker: Optimus PrimeSource: Transformer: Revenge of the Fallen trailerPosted: 10 Jun 2009 at 9:36 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
We and God have business with each other; and in opening ourselves to His influence, our deepest destiny is fulfilled.
Speaker: William JamesPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:19 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I gave the boy back into Parvati’s arms, and wiped a hand across my face and into my hair. Looking at the people, listening to the breathing, heaving, laughing, struggling music of the slum, all around me, I remembered one of Khaderbhai’s favorite phrases. Every human heartbeat, he’d said many times, is a universe of possibilities. And it seemed to me that I finally understood exactly what he’d meant. He’d been trying to tell me that every human will has the power to transform its fate. I’d always thought that fate was something unchangeable: fixed for every one of us at birth, and as constant as the circuit of the stars. But I suddenly realized that life is stranger and more beautiful than that. The truth is that, no matter what kind of game you find yourself in, no matter how good or bad the luck, you can change your life completely with a single thought or a single act of love.
Speaker: Gregory David RobertsPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 7:42 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“Luck is what happens to you when fate gets tired of waiting,” she murmured.
Speaker: Gregory David RobertsPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 7:38 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“Fate always gives you two choices,” Scorpio George once said: “the one you should take, and the one you do.”
Speaker: Gregory David RobertsPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 7:33 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A mujaheddin fighter once told me that fate gives all of us three teachers, three friends, three enemies, and three great loves in our lives. But these twelve are always disguised, and we can never know which one is which until we’ve loved them, left them, or fought them. Khader was one of my twelve, but his disguise was always the best. In those abandoned, angry days, as my grieving heart limped into numbing despair, I began to think of him as my enemy; my beloved enemy.
Speaker: Gregory David RobertsPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 10:06 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Sooner or later, fate puts us together with all the people, one by one, who show us what we could, and shouldn’t, let ourselves become. Sooner or later we meet the drunkard, the waster, the betrayer, the ruthless mind, and the hate-filled heart. But fate loads the dice, of course, because we usually find ourselves loving or pitying almost all of those people. And it’s impossible to despise someone you honestly pity, and to shun someone you truly love.
Speaker: Gregory David RobertsPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 9:40 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I heard a warning, deep within – we usually do, when something worse than we can imagine is stalking us, and set to pounce. Fate’s way of beating us in a fair fight is to give us warnings that we hear, but never heed.
Speaker: Gregory David RobertsPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 9:34 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“Fate has every power over us, but two. Fate cannot control our free will, and fate cannot lie. Men lie, to themselves more than to others, and to others more often then they tell the truth. But fate does not lie.”
Speaker: Gregory David RobertsPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 8:59 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
There’s a kind of luck that’s not much more than being in the right place at the right time, a kind of inspiration that’s not much more than doing the right thing in the right way, and both only really happen to you when you empty your heart of ambition, purpose, and plan; when you give yourself, completely, to the golden, fate-filled moment.
Speaker: Gregory David RobertsPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 8:55 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!