Fortune And Fate Quotes
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As generations come and go, Their arts, their customs, ebb and flow; Fate, fortune, sweep strong powers away, And feeble, of themselves, decay.
— William Wordsworth
A successful life does not result from chance; nor is it determined by fate or good fortune, but rather through a succession of successful days.
— Ari Kiev
The wheel of fortune turns round incessantly, and who can say to himself, I shall today be uppermost.
— Confucius
England a fortune-telling host, As num'rous as the stars, could boast; Matrons, who toss the cup, and see The grounds of Fate in grounds of tea ...
— Charles Churchill
Who was more conscious than the soldier of capricious fortune, of the random roll of the dice?
— Robert Galbraith
Fortune's a right whore:
If she give aught, she deals it in small parcels,
That she may take away all at one swoop. — John Webster
If she give aught, she deals it in small parcels,
That she may take away all at one swoop. — John Webster
When Fortune knocks, open the door,' they say. But why should one make fortune knock, by keeping the door shut?
— Idries Shah
Fortune loves to give bedroom slippers to people with wooden legs, and gloves to those with no hands.
— Theophile Gautier
Fate will come looking for you. Don't bother hiding
— Lauren Bjorkman
Do you believe that evil and tragedy are always planned? You don't think Fortune has anything to do with it?
— Amy Neftzger
An admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition on the charge of a star!
— William Shakespeare
[F]or fate granted him the immense good fortune of losing his memory.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?
— Alexandre Dumas
Dancing in the dark. Does fortune wait or just the black hand of fate, It'll take your God filled soul. Fill it with devils.
— Bruce Springsteen
We make our fortunes and we call them fate.
— Benjamin Disraeli
To make a fortune some assistance from fate is essential. Ability alone is insufficient.
— Ihara Saikaku
But that I should have ended up in a place like this seems too custom-made a nightmare to be the work of mere ill fortune.
— Zoe Heller
Kindness is fate's currency for good fortune. And like all currencies, it is without value when faked.
— Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
Correlation is not cause, it is just a 'music of chance'.
— Siri Hustvedt
You cannot tell whether a person is good or bad by his vicissitudes in life. Good and bad fortune are matters of fate.
— Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Fortune, that arrant whore,
Ne'er turns the key to th'poor. — William Shakespeare
Ne'er turns the key to th'poor. — William Shakespeare
Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
My father, an occasionally wise man, once said that we were blessed only when the gods remained ignorant of us.
— Raymond E. Feist
No matter what you do, no matter how far away you run, what's written in the stars cannot be undone.
— Tali Alexander
The fate of all of us here has been to know that we are prisoners of power. No one knows why us in particular, but what a great fortune!
— Carlos Castaneda
Oh, I am fortune's fool!
— William Shakespeare