Sometimes fate brings two people together by causing one to misinterpret a smile. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life, and you know not whether for good or ill. – Arthur Conan Doyle

I shall seize fate by the throat. – Ludwig van Beethoven

The pulse of destiny still shook the foundations of the world. The will that had willed this thing to happen had now another will to deal with—nor should the stream of Fate swallow up his heart without a cry. – Frederic Jesup Stimson, In Cure of Her Soul, 1906, wording slightly altered