Rick Riordan Quotes

Good people never survive on 'Game of Thrones.' That's the problem.

Life is ruthless, and its bestowal of fortune arbitrary and capricious. I'd been born to morons, and mine was a shabby life.

Subtle and insubstantial, the expert leaves no trace; divinely mysterious, he is inaudible. Thus he is master of his enemy's fate.

And now it goes as it goes and where it ends is Fate. And neither by singeing flesh nor tipping cups of wine nor shedding burning tears can you enchant away the rigid Fury.

Stern is the visage of necessity.

If we had happy endings, we’d all be under gravestones now.

Some trees flourish, others die. Some cattle grow strong, others are taken by wolves. Some men are born rich enough and dumb enough to enjoy their lives. Ain't nothing fair. You know that.

Necessity is harsh. Fate has no reprieve.

The basic fact is that no, this isn't ideal. Very few things are. Sometimes, you have to manufacture your own history. Give fate a push,so to speak.

Life is terrible. It rules us, we do not rule it.

The wheel of a man's life. No mercy. No pity.

There are two things I know about life... Only the good die young but the real jerks will live forever.

Life is as inexorable as the sea.

The terrible sticky thing about truth is if it exists, it's coming for you.

Sometimes life has a cruel sense of humor, giving you the thing you always wanted at the worst time possible.

Maybe Fate isn't the pond you swim in but the fisherman floating on top of it, letting you run the line wild until you are weary enough to be reeled back in.

No one ever said life was fair. Just Eventful.

Is it not enough that 'things are cruel and blind'? Must we also be cruel and blind?

Somewhere in the infinite that He occupies, God advances and withdraws the pawns of the other games He plays, but it is too soon to worry about this one, all He need do for the present is allow things to take their natural course, apart from the occasional adjustment with the tip of His little finger to make sure some stray thought or action does not interfere with the harmony of destinies.

Certain seeds it will not nurture, certain fruit it will not bear and when the land kills of its own volition, we acquiesce and say the victim had no right to live

That's life. You've got to deal with it, good and bad. We'll be all right. I mean, if we make the chase, we make it. If we don't, we don't.

The world is more than a game of cards. History is more than a record of gambling operations.

Fate! There is no fate. Between the thought and the success God is the only agent. Fate is not the ruler, but the servant of Providence.

Tragedy dramatizes human life as potentiality and fulfillment. Its virtual future, or Destiny, is therefore quite different from that created in comedy. Comic Destiny is Fortune - what the world will bring, and the man will take or miss, encounter or escape; tragic Destiny is what the man brings, and the world will demand of him. That is his Fate.

The truth of the matter is that all we have to do is live long enough and we will suffer.