Quote

Fate always gives you two choices, the one you should take, and the one you do.

Gregory David Roberts

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Gregory David Roberts
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: June 21
Author
Novelist
Prosaist
Writer
Melbourne
Australia
Fate
Gives
Choices
Two
Take
Giving
Always

More quotes by Gregory David Roberts

Image
I think the novel form chose me. I was a writer before I became a criminal... my first instinct was to write.
Gregory David Roberts
Image
And money, if the pile gets high enough, is something like a big political party: it does as much harm as it does good, it puts too much power in too few hands, and the closer you come to it the dirtier you get.
Gregory David Roberts
Image
There’s too much love in the world. Sometimes I think that’s what heaven is---- a place where everybody’s happy because nobody loves anybody else, ever.
Gregory David Roberts
Image
Fate gives all of us three teachers, three friends, three enemies, and three great loves in our lives. But these twelve are always disguised, and we can never know which one is which until we’ve loved them, left them, or fought them.
Gregory David Roberts
Image
The truth is a bully we all pretend to like
Gregory David Roberts
Image
In the face of all that is so wrong with the world, the very worst thing you can do is survive. And yet you must survive. It is this dilemma that makes us believe and cling to the lie that we have a soul, and that there is a God who cares about its fate.
Gregory David Roberts
Image
Poverty and pride are devoted blood brothers until one, always and inevitably, kills the other.
Gregory David Roberts
Image
I look back, now, and I know that the naming moment, which seemed so insignificant then, which seemed to demand no more than an arbitrary and superstitious yes or no, was in fact a pivotal moment in my life.
Gregory David Roberts
Image
Sometimes, you have to surrender before you win.
Gregory David Roberts
Image
We carry oceans inside of us, in our blood and our sweat. And we are crying the oceans, in our tears.
Gregory David Roberts
Image
justice is not only the way we punish those who do wrong. It is also the way we try to save them.
Gregory David Roberts
Image
A politician is someone who promises a bridge even when there's no water
Gregory David Roberts
Image
Silence is the tortured man's revenge.
Gregory David Roberts
Image
Some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again.
Gregory David Roberts
Image
Food is music to the body, music is food to the heart.
Gregory David Roberts
Image
We have a saying in Marseilles: a man in no hurry gets nowhere fast. I have been in no hurry for eight years.
Gregory David Roberts
Image
The truth is that, no matter what kind of game you find yourself in, no matter how good or bad the luck, you can change your life completely with a single thought or a single act of love
Gregory David Roberts
Image
but there's no nation uncorrupted. there's no system that's immune to the misuse of money.
Gregory David Roberts
Image
Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears.
Gregory David Roberts
Image
Prisons are the temples where devils learn to prey. Every time we turn the key we twist the knife of fate, because every time we cage a man we close him in with hate.
Gregory David Roberts