“Sometimes choice is a luxury that fate does not afford us.”
Jasper Fforde book The Last Dragonslayer
Source: The Last Dragonslayer
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“I am not a fate worse than death, dammit!”
Lois McMaster Bujold Captain Vorpatril's Alliance
Source: Captain Vorpatril's Alliance
“I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.”
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
Not by Roosevelt, but from Steven Covey's Seven Habits of Highly Effective People (1989).
Misattributed
“The fate of your heart is your choice and no one else gets a vote”
Sarah Dessen book This Lullaby
Source: This Lullaby
“The choices we make within the boundaries of the twists of fate determines who we are”
John Perkins book Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
Source: Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
“I am rather impatient to know the fate of my best gown.”
Jane Austen (1775–1817) English novelist
Letter to Cassandra (1799-05-17) [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
Letters
“I am a birth, domicile, and deliberate choice of citizenship an Irishman…”
Robert Erskine Childers (1870–1922) Irish nationalist and author
His own words from his last military trial on 17 November 1922, cited in The Freeman's Journal Newspaper, 27 November 1922.
Literary Years and War (1900-1918), Last Years: Ireland (1919-1922)
“I myself am just an ordinary woman. I simply had no choice.”
Miep Gies (1909–2010) Dutch citizen who hid Anne Frank
Jewish Virtual Library http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Miep_Gies.html
O. Henry book The Four Million
"The Green Door" http://books.google.com/books?id=dKk_AAAAYAAJ&q=%22The+true+adventurer+goes+forth+aimless+and+uncalculating+to+meet+and+greet+unknown+fate+A+fine+example+was+the+Prodigal+Son+when+he+started+back+home%22&pg=PA151#v=onepage <br class="br">The Four Million (1906)