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“Even if the decisions one made on a given day seemed crazy, it helped to think that all things happened for a mysterious reason.”

Book:Outside Wonderland: A Novel

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“My brother was on his way to a dental appointment when the second plane hit four stories below the office where he worked. He’s never said anything about the guy who took football bets, how he liked to watch his secretary walk, the friends he ate lunch with, all the funerals. Maybe, shamed by his luck, he keeps quiet, afraid someone might guess how good he feels, breathing.”

Alive Fate Chances 9 11

Author:Tony Gloeggler

“I wonder where we are going," I said. "Wherever the way is going," Exi replied calmly. "But where do you suppose the way is going?" "Wherever we go." "That doesn't really make sense, does it?" "Oh, yes. Quite good sense." "Why?" "Do you know any method by which you can go way and your path another? Not the path, but your path?" "Well-" I hesitated. "Well, if you put it that way, I guess not. But what about crossroads? Couldn't you choose the wrong one?" "I suppose you could. However, if it was the wrong way you chose, it would still be your way, wouldn't it?" "Yes," I answered, "yes, it probably would.”

Choices Destiny Path Fate

Book:Knee-Deep in Thunder

Source: Knee-Deep in Thunder

“I use this as a paradigm for our whole attitude toward life, what you did was you worked very hard, you try to understand and try to direct these complicated, powerful forces and at the very end of the struggle you've made no progress at all. That upon discovering that, you've raised to a lofty moral height, and you've accepted your fate, and somehow went on.”

Moral Fate Interview Attitude Toward Life

Author:Philip K. Dick

“The Word of God I think of as a straight edge, which shows up our own crookedness. We can't really tell how crooked our thinking is until we line it up with the straight edge of Scripture.”

God Scripture Crooked Edge Line Straight Ruler Straight Edge

Author:Elisabeth Elliot

“Risk is the factor of a stratagem measured by what man is powerless to control.”

War Destiny Power Fate Risk Strategy Control Powerless Powerlessness Stratagem Measure Equation Factor

Book:White Mountain

Source: White Mountain

“There is some history that I want not to have happened. I resist the consequences of being Nemesis.”

Choices Destiny History Fate Consequences

Book:Angle of Repose

Source: Angle of Repose

“Andy was receptive, like a deep vessel into which life was poured. If this terrible particular thing hadn't been poured into her, she would have been happier--it goes without saying--but less of a person. She was filled out by her fate. I actually think that this is quite rare, the capacity to become the whole shape of the accidents that happen to you.”

Life Fate Personality Accidents

Author:Tessa Hadley

“Really," said Winifred suddenly; "it almost seems like Fate. Only that's so old-fashioned.”

Fate

Book:The Forsyte Saga

Source: The Forsyte Saga

“Whatever is, is in its causes just; But purblind man Sees but a part o' th' chain; the nearest link; His eyes not carrying to that equal beam That poises all above.”

Fate

Book:Oedipus: A Tragedy

Source: Oedipus: A Tragedy

“There's a bug inside you. Growing in you, eating everything you've forced yourself to forget, everything you don't want to think about. Your bug will decide your fate one day. And... chances are, you will die because of it.”

Death Fate Future

Book:Boogiepop at Dawn

Source: Boogiepop at Dawn

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