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The earth has Fates all her own. The earth has purpose. And we can only partially know what that purpose is. — Jane Caputi

And may the Fates smile upon you .. — Rick Riordan

People's fates are simplified by their names. — Elias Canetti

We are the masters of our own fates - we decide how we go forward. — Sarah J. Maas

The leader is always alone before bad fates. — Charles De Gaulle

Thin lips trace bold lines across my skin with a single, lingering kiss. — Cassandra Giovanni, Let The Fates Decide

He imagined the Fates up in Olympus, laughing at his wishful thinking: LOL, NOOB! — Rick Riordan

Some fates are guaranteed, no matter who tries to intervene. — Alice Hoffman

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

Because change creates opportunity, when we do it through purpose and awareness, we are working with the fates, and in turn they smile upon us. — Lawren Leo

See how the Fates their gifts allot, For A is happy-B is not. Yet B is worthy, I dare say, Of more prosperity than A. — W.S. Gilbert

Whatever happens, it happens because we choose for it. We decide our fates. — Spartacus

Upon such slender threads as these do the fates of mortals hang — Voltaire

Screw it. Let the fates decide — Stephanie Perkins

We cannot prepare our fate, but we can stir it up. — Munia Khan

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

There is never only one way!" Zeus bellowed. "That is why there are three Fates, not one. — Rick Riordan

We are our own fates.- Our deeds are our own doomsmen.- Man's life was made not for creeds but actions. — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl Of Lytton

Like books, artists have their fates. — Norbert Lynton

Today, as never before, the fates of men are so intimately linked to one another that a disaster for one is a disaster for everybody. — Natalia Ginzburg

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

Jason decided there was nothing in the world scarier than a gang of bat-wielding grannies. — Rick Riordan

And in my Dark Otherworld, there will be no innocents being abused by predators. All will be under my protection. I hold their fates in — P.C. Cast

Hooded, and veiled with their night-like tresses, The Fates shall bring what no prophet guesses." And — Lord Dunsany

We are all subject to the fates. But we must act as if we are not, or die of despair. — Philip Pullman

The Fates, like an absent-minded printer, seldom allow a single line to stand perfect and unmarred. — George Santayana

Her timing sucked. She was pretty sure the Fates were smoking joints and sitting around laughing at their crystal ball. — T.S. Joyce

I prefer to believe we have some hand in our fates, that our choices matter as much as our stars. — Jessica Spotswood

What irony. This great ship that carried all their fates upon her steel and rivets sailed like a compeer under him, half-blind with a limp. — Judith Ivory

Our wyrds - our fates — Christopher Paolini

Be careful, little killer. The Fates can fuck with you in ways you can't even imagine. — Larissa Ione

A lion may die of an ass's kick. — Robert Browning

Time and chance. The twin offspring of destiny. That wondrous branching of our fates. — Carol Shields

We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, never to be undone. — William James

The fates lead those who will those who won't they drag. — Seneca.

What fates impose, that men must needs abide; it boots not to resist both wind and tide. — William Shakespeare

The decision of their fates lay elsewhere, and the thought of that alone was utterly terrifying. — Ross Turner

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

I can imagine few worse fates than walking around for the rest of one's life wearing a typo. — Anne Fadiman

We never conceive the greatness of our fates. — Henry David Thoreau

I could not separate our fates now any more than I could sort the blood from the ash. We are tied together by our love of the same girl. — Laura Bradley Rede

The Fates are just: they give us but our own; Nemesis ripens what our hands have sown. — John Greenleaf Whittier

Secret fates
Guide our states
Both in mirth and mourning. — Thomas Campion

The Fates and Furies, as well as the Graces and Sirens, glide with linked hands over life. — Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

Who has passed by the fates of disillusion has died twice. — Ouida

As children grow, they gravitate to their fates. — Mitch Albom

There are fates worse than death. — Maggie Stiefvater

From no place can you exclude the fates.
[Lat., Nullo fata loco possis excludere.] — Martial

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

There are worse fates, my lord. A title, land, a wife ... if you can't make something of that, there is indeed no hope for you.
-Morgan — Lisa Kleypas

She realized that the world was a dance of a million fates. In this dance she was but a single soul. — David Anthony Durham

As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully. — Walter Scott

I curse you! I curse you both. May you crave all that is sugary until the fates have aligned your true heart! — A.R. Von

The Fates are here because of supernal anger, celestial imbalance, and arrogance of men and gods that must be curbed. — Janet Morris

He didn't think much of fates and prophecies, but he did believe in one thing: Annabeth and he were supposed to be together. — Rick Riordan

Three were the fates. Poverty that chains; gray drudgery that grinds the hope away, and gaping ignorance that starves the soul. — Edwin Markham

Why is it we are always the targets of the angry Fates? Twice as many men of ours met harm as did theirs, since we've come here. — Janet Morris

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

They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates. — D.H. Lawrence

The fates lead her who will; who won't they drag. — Tom Spanbauer

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

Love is a delusion that binds mortals to their fates. — Joseph Delaney

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

...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

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

Even the gods couldn't devise a fates so twisted. — Rick Riordan

We're not in a fairytale story. This is not a movie. Scriptwriters don't write our fates. We do. — Ken Marvin Ortega

It's really not a good idea to forecast or double guess the fates; you will always be fooled. — Iman

Astrologers that future fates foreshow. — Alexander Pope

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

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

The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won't! — Joseph Campbell

Our fates are locked together. It would be foolish of me to anger God by leaving you. — Mark Tompkins

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

The fates have given mankind a patient soul. — Homer

Never assume you're safe, and never, ever tempt the Fates by announcing that you think you're safe. — Rick Riordan

Sometimes the Fates have their own ideas about things. — M.A. Larson

Our individual fates are linked our futures intertwined — Jimmy Carter

Smile at the Fates and you will feel less their Slave. — Denise Sevier Fries

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

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

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

We were like the three Fates, weaving the story together, threads of gold, red, and midnight blue. — April Genevieve Tucholke

Poems have their own fates, like children. You have only to give birth to them. — Andrei Voznesensky

I really believe that we have the power to manifest our own fates. — Michael Trucco

You can be as mad as a mad dog at the way things went, you can curse the fates, but when it comes to the end, you have to let go. — Eric Roth

She was screwed by the fates. Cursed with a mate she wanted but couldn't have. — Susannah Scott

Some necrophobes earn their own fates. — David S.E. Zapanta

The Fates guide the person who accepts them and hinder the person who resists them. — Cleanthes

Why would we evade the fates? Why are they here? — Candace Knoebel

I guess the sacrifice of my dignity is the only thing that will save us now. The things I endure for love. The Fates laugh at my torment. — Julie Kagawa

Jove lifts the golden balances that show
The fates of mortal men, and things below. — Homer

I have come to know well that fates are fickle in the business of English football. And I feel that I have pushed mine well past the limit. — Randy Lerner

While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned. — Seneca.

Use him wisely. Few have been given such a weapon by the gods or Fates before. — Janet Morris

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

A hot lust for glory, gems, gold or mates,
Leads reckless young drakes to the blackest of fates. — E.E. Knight

There's nothing or no one here that could possibly hurt the Fates - right, Mina? — Chanda Hahn

The fates lead him who will; him who won't they drag.
- The Greatness of Saturn — Robert E. Svoboda

terrible fates are inevitable — Shaun Tan