Quotes About Fateful

a word once written will often accidentally find a life that no one anticipates; it lies

I got to thinking one day about all those women on the Titanic who passed up dessert at dinner that fateful night.

Visiting Australia again, I thought, might not be a bad idea. How could I have known then that my decision would result, only a short time later, in a chance meeting with the man who would change my life.

In this story of the outside world and the inside world with a fire between, the outside world of little screwups recedes now for a few hours to be taken over by the inside world of blowups, this time by a colossal blowup but shaped by little screwups that fitted together tighter and tighter until all became one and the same thing--the fateful blowup.

madam, the man cried, leaping to the ground, you're hurt! I'm dead, sir! she replied. A few minutes later, they became engaged.

Two silent time zones had now merged to form the standard time of one man's fate; and it is not impossible that the poet in New Wye and the thug in New York awoke that morning at the same crushed beat of their Timekeeper's stopwatch.

I am convinced, however, that in a certain magic and fateful way Lolita began with Annabel.

When I try to analyze my own cravings, motives, actions and so forth, I surrender to a sort of retrospective imagination which feeds the analytic faculty with boundless alternatives and which causes each visualized route to fork and re-fork without end in the maddeningly complex prospect of my past. I am convinced, however, that in a certain magic and fateful way Lolita began with Annabel.

And Magellan came well armed for what would be the most important meeting of his life.

What connexion can there be, between the place in Lincolnshire, the house in town, the Mercury in powder, and the whereabout of Jo the outlaw with the broom, who had that distant ray of light upon him when he swept the churchyard-step? What connexion can there have been between many people in the innumerable histories of this world, who, from opposite sides of great gulfs, have, nevertheless, been very curiously brought together!

It was appointed that the book should shut with a spring, for ever and for ever, when I had read but a page.

Deux bolides lancés l'un vers l'autre qu'on océan sépare encore. Deux étoiles filantes qui vont entrer en collision. Des retrouvailles trop longtemps différées. Des retrouvailles dangereuses. Car l'amour et la mort n'ont que deux lettres de différence.

Oft trifft man sein Schicksal auf Wegen, die man eingeschlagen hatte, um ihm zu entgehen. (Jean de La Fontaine)

I have often thought since on looking back over that strange time that it was that small act, trivial in itself, that striking of the match, that determined the whole aftercourse of both our lives

I got here the same way the coin did.

Isn't Fate artistic?

Whom the Gods wish to destroy, they first call promising.

Thick-sprinkled bunting! flag of stars! Long yet your road, fateful flag—long yet your road, and lined with bloody death, For the prize I see at issue at last is the world

A story that fate left incomplete

Who is fatal to others is so to himself.

for now the hand of Heaven had overtaken me, and I was undone without redemption; but, alas! this was but a taste of the misery I was to go through, as will appear in the sequel of this story.

And then: "My own fate became known to me. I decided to go into politics."6 As it turned out, this was a fateful decision for Hitler and for the world.

That would be the last thing Professor Hopkins saw on the pier that night.

Por qué tuve que conocerte?, se preguntó la loca mirándolo desaparecer. Pudimos no habernos cruzado nunca.