“Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.” — Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
Tag: fate
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“And though you think the world is at your feet, it can rise up and tread on you.” — Ian McEwan, Atonement
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“We may become the makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.” — Karl Popper, The Open Society and its Enemies
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“The only way to escape one’s fate is to enjoy it.” — Emily Prager, A Visit from the Footbinder
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“I may get moody and curse my fate, but so does any other human being with an ounce of intelligence.” — Wallace Thurman, Infants of the Spring
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“If fate doesn’t make you laugh, then you don’t get the joke.” — Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram
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“You cannot lie down behind your badly made decisions and call them fate or determinism or god.” — Daisy Johnson, Everything Under
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“Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt, Pan American Day Address (1937-04-14)
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“Things happen to you they happen. They dont ask first. They dont require your permission.” — Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men
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“You stumble out of a store, run smack into the person that later becomes your spouse and the parent of your children. It was fate, you say, a cosmic coincidence. No, it was one of a hundred chance encounters that you had that day, and you chose to make it a fateful one.” — Bill Bullard, “For the Faculty”, Commencement 2007, San Francisco University High School
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