Dinah Maria Mulock Quotes

We never know we go when we are going- We jest and shut the Door- Fate-following-behind us bolts it- And we accost no more-.

What mortal knew the way their fate line would run?

Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly; and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men.

Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.

My life is a big accident, so where I end up, I think it's all accidents.

I don't know what's in store for me. I don't know what tomorrow is going to bring.

We are not saints, gods, spiritual human beings that we can sit and decide whether a film will do well or not. It is not in our hands.

Fate, or some mysterious force, can put the finger on you or me, for no good reason at all.

One thing I've learned: You never know where life is taking you, but it's taking you.

One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.

An example is often a deceptive mirror, and the order of destiny, so troubling to our thoughts, is not always found written in things past.

Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny.

The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

The two grand tyrants of the Earth, Time and Chance.

You don't know where life takes you.

Some people plan their life out, and it occurs. Others have things they're thinking about, and things don't go that way.

Life is a series of chapters, and one leads to another to another to another, and God knows what it is.

You never know how life turns out.

No one knows what the future holds, except the One Who holds the future!

Our souls are but leaves in a storm, and only the gods know where we will come to rest.

I am hanging in the balance of a perfect finished plan, like every sparrow falling, like every grain of sand.

Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined.

Fate isn't some middle-aged man with a squint who won't recognize you if you change your clothes.

I was not sure I wanted to issue orders to life; I rather liked the Greek notion of allowing Chance to take a formative hand in my affairs.