Georgette Heyer Quotes

It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.

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

Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.

I always knew, on some level, that I wouldn't live long. It's simply not written in my stars.

It lies not in our power to love or hate, for will in us is overruled by fate.

I have an unshakable sense of destiny because I know that as long as I pursue God's calling on my life, then God is ultimately responsible for getting me where He wants me to go.

So long as it fated, fate didn't care what it fated.

No one knew where you were before you were born, but when you were born, it wasn't long before you found you'd arrived with your return ticket already punched.

It goes back to the destiny thing.I made a bargain with it, you know, a long time ago. And I'm holding up my end.

It was a dream, and in dreams you have no choices: either there are no decisions to be made, or they were made for you long before ever the dream began.

I wanted to be a politician and a movie star. But I was born a writer. If you're born that, you can't change it. You're going to do it whether you want to or not.~

Luck's just another word for destiny... either you make your own or you're screwed.

Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to that path which nature has marked out for him.

Once we have accepted the story we cannot escape the story's fate.

The seeds are tiny, unborn things, and I resent them. They'll be planted and they'll grow into exactly what they're meant to be.

The will of God is exactly what we would do if we knew all the facts.

Perhaps there are those who are able to go about their lives unfettered by such concerns. But for those like us, our fate is to face the world as orphans, chasing through long years the shadows of vanished parents. There is nothing for it but to try and see through our missions to the end, as best we can, for until we do so, we will be permitted no calm.

Perform your long and heavy task with energy, treading the path to which Fate has been pleased to call you.

One of the aphorisms occurred to me now and I wrote it under the picture: "Fate and temperament are two words for one and the same concept." That was clear to me now.

Coming back is the thing that enables you to see how all the dots in your life are connected, how one decision leads you another, how one twist of fate, good or bad, brings you to a door that later takes you to another door, which aided by several detours--long hallways and unforeseen stairwells--eventually puts you in the place you are now.

Most things are predestined, but some are just darn sheer luck, said Roaring Abel.

Such was the unhappy condition of the Roman emperors, that, whatever might be their conduct, their fate was commonly the same. A life of pleasure or virtue, of severity or mildness, of indolence or glory, alike led to an untimely grave; and almost every reign is closed by the same disgusting repetition of treason and murder.

What could be and should be can’t be until God is ready for it to be.

Mark what unvary'd laws preserve each state, Laws wise as Nature, and as fixed as Fate.