If one were to be a person of value that value could not be a condition subject to hazards of fortune. It had to be a quality that could not change. No matter what.
If one were to be a person of value that value could not be a condition subject to hazards of fortune. It had to be a quality that could not change. No matter what.
Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupation of men engaged in rash undertakings.
So with my luck, I'll never make it in time to save the boy in the forest because my hair will have snagged on a tree branch a mile back.
Shadowhunters don't say good-bye, not before a battle. Or good luck. You must behave as if return is certain, not a matter of chance
The handsome young fellow who's trying to rescue you from a hideous fate is never wrong. Not even if he says the sky is purple and made of hedgehogs. - William Herondale
Musicians add to songs and they evolve: For as was true of human effort, there was never advancement. Everything added meant something lost, and about as often as not the thing lost was preferable to the thing gained, so that over time we'd be lucky if we just broke even. Any thought otherwise was empty pride. p. 380
A deal of people, Miss, are for trusting all to Providence; but I say Providence will not dispense with the means, though He often blesses them when they are used discreetly.
Hopeless of the future, I wished but this- that my Maker had that night thought good to require my soul of me while I slept; and that this weary frame, absolved by death from further conflict with fate, had now but to decay quietly, and mingle in peace with the soil of this wilderness.
I know my Leader; that He is just as well as mighty; and while He has chosen a feeble instrument to perform a great task, He will, from the boundless stores of His providence, supply the inadequacy of the means to the end.
When I was as old as you, I was a feeling fellow enough, partial to the unfledged, unfostered, and unlucky; but Fortune has knocked me about since: she has even kneaded me with her knuckles, and now I flatter myself I am hard and tough as an India-rubber ball; pervious, though, through a chink or two still, and with one sentient point in the middle of the lump.
Your will shall decide your destiny.
Mr. Asher, you can resist who you are for only so long. Finally, you just decide to go with fate.
There are very few bad people. There are just a lot of people that are unlucky.
I wish I had more friends, but people are such jerks. If you can just get most people to leave you alone, you're doing good. If you can find even one person you really like, you're lucky. And if that person can also stand you, you're really lucky.
And why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart?
Do not by any means destroy yourself, for if you live you may yet have good fortune, but all the dead are dead like.
It might have been that notion, or just chance, or its more flamboyant relative, destiny.
Julian once wrote that coincidences are the scars of fate. There are no coincidences, Daniel. We are puppets of our subconscious desires.
Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice.
Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life, and you know not whether for good or ill. What does Dr. James Mortimer, the man of science, ask of Sherlock Holmes, the specialist in crime? Come in!
Every man has his destiny. But who needs to go to a fortune-teller to find it? Do I go to a chef to find out if I'm hungry?
Neither you nor I can know your destiny. You may never know it! Destiny isn't always like a party at the end of the evening. Sometimes it's nothing more than struggling through life from day to day.
Peace. It is a providence, and no great change; we are only what we always were, but naked now.
He has once built his fortune, starting out with empty hands; now he had to rebuild his life, starting out with an empty spirit
Water, in Grace, is an all-or-nothing proposition, like happiness. When you have rain you have more than enough, just as when you're happy and in love and content with your life, you can't remember how you ever could have felt cheated by fate.
There are people who are willing to suffer and swallow their tears at leisure, and God will not doubt reward them in heaven for their resignation; but those who have the will to struggle strike back at fate in retaliation for the blows they receive. Do you intend to fight back at fate, Valentine? That's what I came here to ask you.
We are always in a hurry to be happy, M. Danglars; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune.
There are some things, after all, that Sally Owens knows for certain: Always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. Keep rosemary by your garden gate. Add pepper to your mashed potatoes. Plant roses and lavender, for luck. Fall in love whenever you can.
You canÆt go back, Ever. You canÆt change the past. It just is. . . . This is our destiny. Not yours.
Fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention.
I think now that fate is half shaped by expectation, half by inattention. But somehow, when you lose something you love, faith takes over. You have to pay attention to what you lost. You have to undo the expectation.
Sympathy, Love, Fortune... We all have these qualities but still tend to not use them!
But peace does not rest in the charters and covenants alone. It lies in the hearts and minds of all people. So let us not rest all our hopes on parchment and on paper, let us strive to build peace, a desire for peace, a willingness to work for peace in the hearts and minds of all of our people. I believe that we can. I believe the problems of human destiny are not beyond the reach of human beings.
Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low.
It's a pretty good situation, but we need to have a little cooperation from the pool. That's our fate.
It is the destiny of us all to see this day.
Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.
Die early and avoid the fate.
I kind of fell into acting.I was very lucky.
This isn't about me, but about all the people that have had an active role. It's about Jeremy Foley Florida athletic director, the three presidents of Florida in the past 10 years, and the fans and players who have shared in our fortune. This is my fourth time in the Final Four two as a head coach, one as a player and one as an assistant, and I've been blessed.
We've had a good start to our Ivy season. Destiny is in our hands if we play great we can have great outcomes.
So far more than 3,000 suspected terrorists have been arrested in many countries. Just about that number met a different kind of fate. They are not a problem anymore,
No man's fortune can be an end worthy of his being.
Be grateful for the joy of life. Be glad for the privilege of work. Be thankful for the opportunity to give and serve. Good work is the great character-builder, the sweetener of life, the maker of destiny.
She hit the ball really well on the front side, caught a couple of unlucky breaks and her bunker play was extremely good.
Good luck. I'm pulling for you.
No woman can be a beauty without a fortune.
We're on a pretty good run and today we ran into a desperate team. Maybe they deserved a better fate. Our guys just did what it took to win.
I mean, I think we're put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with. I don't think there's anything you can do this way or that way to change anything.
We know what the ending is seriously. This is a show that demands an ending. We want to find out what is the fate of these people. Do they get off the island What is the nature of the island I mean there are some big fundamental questions that you want answered at the end of this show.
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