Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes

Consult duty not events.

We are not the masters of our own destiny as far as our case load is concerned.

Many events in our lives are the result of things beyond our control. While it is comforting to think, 'I'm in charge,' in truth, most changes effected by individuals are very limited in scope.

Against destiny I fulfilled my duty. Uselessly? No, for I fulfilled it.

You’re meant for me, and I will have you.

Many men, seemingly impelled by fortune, hasten forward to meet misfortune half way.

Whatever happens is going to happen, whether you're sitting by the phone anxious and worried about it or not.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.If you say "No! I don't want it right now," that's when you'll get it for sure. Love will make a way out of no way. Love is an exploding cigar which we willingly smoke.

There is no luck in life, everything happens for a reason. Every little thing that you do... leads up to a bigger thing. And that's the story of my life.

What is yours is to play the assigned part well. But to choose it belongs to someone else

Our destiny is frequently met in the very paths we take to avoid it.

But in the end it wasn't up to me. The bigs things never are. Birth, I mean, and death. And love. And what love bequeaths to us before we're born.

Fate does not seek our consent.

You’ll come back To me . . . It’s written in the stars, you see, you’ll come back. You’ll come back, it’s a fact that I am strong because I do believe in you.

You can work hard, do everything that you think is right, but one thing you'll never overcome in life is fate. You can't control fate.

Necessity and chance Approach not me, and what I will is fate.

History has thrust something upon me from which I cannot turn away.

How seldom we recognize the sound when the bolt of our fate slides home.

You speak of destiny as if it was fixed.

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.

Remember that you are in actor in a play of such a kind that the author chooses...For this is your duty, to act well the part that is given to you; but to select the part belongs to another.

man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer

My friend wants to get moving and so do I,' Eddie said. 'We've got miles to go yet.' I know that. It's on your face, son. Like a scar.' Eddie was fascinated by the idea of duty and ka as something that left a mark, something that might look like decoration to one eye and disfigurement to another. Outside, thunder cracked and lightning flashed.

Duty is heavier than a mountain, Dai Shan.' That time, Lan did flinch. How long had it been since someone had been able to do that to him with mere words? He remembered teaching that same concept to a youth out of the Two Rivers. A sheepherder, innocent of the world, fearful of the fate laid out before him by the Pattern.