Nora Roberts Quotes

If you know that things are bound to happen whatever you do, then you may feel free to give up the fight against them.

Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them. -Francois

I'm a fatalist.

Some things you can't control.

What fates impose, that men must needs abide; it boots not to resist both wind and tide.

The popular culture says . . . Do what you do, your life is predestined, like the installment plan on your house. There's not much you can do about it. Make your payments, live it, get sick, die, don't make any trouble. It is the Master Charge of destiny. Try to get your high credit rating.

Nothing can be repaired or advanced but only accepted

Whatever is destined not to happen will not happen, try as you may. Whatever is destined to happen will happen, do what you may to prevent it. This is certain. The best course, therefore, is to remain silent.

You get to a place where you do your job, and then you dust your hands off and say, 'Okay, my job is done. Now, it's in the stars. We'll see what happens.' There's nothing I can do to affect it.

At first I was a bit indignant about it, and then I realised, 'No, that's what people want, so that's what is given.' But it's not in your control. It's just what happens to you, and that's what's frightening.

We don't have control over many things. We're always grasping for it, but in reality, we don't have a lot of control.

It's better to accept destiny.

Things happen in the way they usually should. I'm a pretty fatalistic person.

I can’t fight the sun. I can only watch helplessly as it drags me into a day that I’ve been dreading for months. Katniss Everdeen

Whatever will happen will happen.

I would not despair unless I knew the irrevocable decree was passed; saw my misfortune recorded in the book of fate, and signed and sealed by neces-sity.

What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.

Man is better without knowledge of things to come, for what is to be will be, and man can neither avert nor hasten. It is better to go in the dark when the road must pass a lion and there is no other road.

Fortunately, we are not in control.

If it is our destiny to be hit by the train, we will be hit by the train. The only thing we can change is how the train turns us into a hamburger.

I made no more protests. What was the use of struggling against fate

Anyway, it doesn't matter how much, how often, or how closely you keep an eye on things because you can't control it. Sometimes things and people just go. Just like that.

Woe to the dupe that yields to Fate!

What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.

In accordance with the prarabdha of each, the One whose function it is to ordain makes each to act. What will not happen will never happen, whatever effort one may put forth. And what will happen will not fail to happen, however much one may seek to prevent it. This is certain. The part of wisdom therefore is to stay quiet.