Fate
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- Often the steps we take to avoid destiny lead us to it.
- Turtle from Kung Fu Panda (2008), written by Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger.
- Wyrd bið ful aræd.
- Fate remains wholly inexorable.
- Anonymous author of The Wanderer
- Fate remains wholly inexorable.
- Fate has a way of circling back on a man, and taking him by surprise. A man sees things differently at different times in his life. This town didn't seem the same now that he was older.
- "Edward Bloom" in Big Fish (screenplay by John August, based on Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions (1998) by Daniel Wallace
- Fate steals along with silent tread,
Found oftenest in what least we dread,
Frowns in the storm with angry brow,
But in the sunshine strikes the blow.- William Cowper, in "A Fable" (or "The Raven"), line 36
- Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.
- Jacques Delille, in Malheur at Pitié, canto I (1803)
- How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.
- Wilhelm von Humboldt, as quoted in International Proverbs (2000) by Luzano Pancho Canlas
- Fate is Never Final.
- I do not believe in a fate that will fall on us no matter what we do. I do believe in a fate that will fall on us if we do nothing.
- Ronald Reagan, in his first inaugural address (20 January 1981)
- Fool, don't you know you cannot change your fate.
- "Shadee" in Prince of Persia
- For whatever reasons, Ray, call it . . . fate, call it luck, call it karma. I believe everything happens for a reason. I believe that we were destined to get thrown out of this dump.
- "Dr. Peter Venkman" in Ghostbusters (1984) written by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis.
- Throughout human history, we have been dependent on machines to survive. Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony.
- Morpheus in The Matrix by the Wachowski brothers
- We can't run from who we are. Our destiny chooses us.
- Abe Petrovsky in Rounders (1998) written by David Levien and Brian Koppelman

