An example is often a deceptive mirror, and the order of destiny, so troubling to our thoughts, is not always found written in things past.
For fate may hang on any moment and at any moment be changed.
Fate, however, is to all appearance more unavoidable than unexpected.
Fate isn't some middle-aged man with a squint who won't recognize you if you change your clothes.
Never tempt fate. It plays for keeps.
Fate is gonna find you in your glass of champagne.
Wyrd bith ful araed (Fate is inexorable).
Fate wings, with every wish, the afflictive dart, Each gift of nature, and each grace of art.
For by the will of the gods Fate hath held sway since ancient days.
No one can stop what God has for you.
Certainly. My whole life has been decided by fate. I think something more powerful than we are decides our fates for us. I know one thing – I've never planned anything that ever happened to me.
We are all cups, and our destiny is poured according to measures we cannot understand, cannot influence.
Fate is a wheel that turns without our hand
Sometimes, when I wake up at night, I feel invisible hands weaving my destiny.
To fate and the strange way that it twists us all together.
Fate has a strange way of making plans.
But Fate does iron wedges drive, And always crowds itself betwixt.
There is a destiny in war, to which a brave man knows how to submit with the same courage that he faces his foes.
All chance, direction, which thou canst not see
We cannot stop what Heaven chooses.
Destiny is an absolutely definite and inexorable ruler. Physical ability and moral determination count for nothing. It is impossible to perform the simplest act when the gods say no. I have no idea how they bring pressure to bear on such occasions; I only know that it is irresistible.
Fate, or some mysterious force, can put the finger on you or me, for no good reason at all.
Fate will find a way.
Yet who shall shut out Fate?
No man or woman born, coward or brave, can shun his destiny.
