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Quotes About Fateful

Se una pallottola ti deve colpire, è già stata sparata.
~ Ben Fountain
We are almost men, not quite warriors, and on some fateful day we meet an enemy for the first time and we hear the chants of battle, the threatening clash of blades on shields, and we begin to learn that the poets are wrong and that the proud songs lie.
~ Bernard Cornwell
Wyrd bið ful ?ræd. The
~ Bernard Cornwell
Missugused tavalised asjad võivad alguse saada kahe inimese kohtumisest ühel kõrgendiku maalapil? Kuidas saab muuta elu kulgu kõigest ühe tolmusel teel lausutud sõnaga, kui too tee ise on kõigest kui nõelaga veetud kriips, üürike ajas ja nõrguke Aafrika mägedest krobelisel koorel? Kuhu mujale kui tuulde võiks too sõna õigupoolest lennata?
~ Beryl Markham
You know what I thought the first time I saw you?' 'No.' 'Point of no return.'
~ Josh Lanyon
No, you must let me say it. It's not a simple thing, you see. I loved you even before I met you. I loved the idea of you,'she said quietly. 'And to think you existed all this time. And it only took that horrid moment when everything went wrong for the both of us for our paths to finally cross. I would fall off that cliff again and again for the promise of you.
~ Sophia Nash
All the bourgeois virtues, caution, obedience, zeal and thoughtfulness- they all melt away powerless in the fire of the great fateful moment that always demands only genius and forms it into a a lasting image. Contemptuously it repulses the timid man; it, another god of the earth, with fiery arms, lifts only the bold into the heaven of heroes.
~ Stefan Zweig
I'm a believer in the single-bullet theory. You can fall in love and make love many times but there is only one bullet with your name etched on the side. And if you are lucky enough to be shot with that bullet then the wound never heals.
~ Michael Connelly
everybody had somebody out there in the world who could pierce their heart like a bullet. Not everybody had the good fortune of meeting that person, and not everybody could hold on to that person if they did meet.
~ Michael Connelly
You can fall in love and make love many times but there is only one bullet with your name etched on the side. And if you are lucky enough to be shot with that bullet then the wound never heals.
~ Michael Connelly
Two are born to cross their paths, their lives, their hearts. If by chance, one turns away, they are they forever lost.
~ Michael Timmins
His point, of course, is that it is easy to make any banal situation seem extraordinary if you treat it as fateful. So
~ Bill Bryson
Y mirá que apenas nos conocíamos y ya la vida urdía lo necesario para desencontrarnos minuciosamente.
~ Julio Cortazar
Apenas nos conocíamos y ya la vida urdía lo necesario para desencontrarnos minuciosamente.
~ Julio Cortazar
Un encuentro casual era lo menos casual en nuestras vidas
~ Julio Cortazar
Y mira que apenas nos conocíamos y ya la vida urdía lo necesario para desencontrarnos minuciosamente.
~ Julio Cortazar
We are at the edge of an abyss and we're close to being irrevocably lost.
~ David R. Brower
He came into my life in February 1932 and never left it again. More than a quarter of a century has passed since then, more than nine thousand days, desultory and tedious, hollow with the sense of effort or work without hope- days and years, many of them as dead as dry leaves on a dead tree. I can remember the day and the hour when I first set eyes on this boy who was to be the source of my greatest happiness and of my greatest despair.
~ Fred Uhlman
If Romeo had never met Juliet, maybe they both would have still been alive, but what they would have been alive for is the question Shakespeare wants us to answer.
~ Gary D. Schmidt
The al-Sauds were but one militia among many until they forged a fateful alliance with an austere and martial desert preacher, Mohammed ibn Abdul Wahhab.
~ Steve Coll
L'amore ci si parò dinanzi come un assassino sbuca fuori in un vicolo, quasi uscisse dalla terra, e ci colpì subito entrambi. Così colpisce il fulmine, così colpisce un coltello a serramanico!
~ Michail Bulgakov
O amor caiu em cima de nós, como um assassino saído da terra, na travessa, fulminando imediatamente a ambos!
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
Einmal ist keinmal. What happens but once might as well not have happened at all. The history of the Czechs will not be repeated, nor will the history of Europe. The history of the Czechs and of Europe is a pair of sketches from the pen of mankind's fateful inexperience, unbearably light, light as a feather, as dust swirling into the air, as whatever will no longer exist tomorrow.
~ Milan Kundera
Just turned twenty. And from then on, everything was determined once and for all. I made one mistake then, a mistake that's hard to define and impossible to grasp, but one that determined my entire life and that I never managed to repair.
~ Milan Kundera