Quotes About Fate

For aught that I could ever read, Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth.

Not a whit, we defy augury: there's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all: since no man has aught of what he leaves, what is't to leave betimes?

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

We know what we are, but not what we may be.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.

My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late! Prodigious birth of love it is to me, That I must love a loathed enemy.

Death is an absolute marvel.

Take it easy, nothing matters in the end, what goes up must come down. If I'd known that at 20, I wouldn't have done anything!

We are born into mystery and we leave life in mystery.

The next Fourth Turning—America's next rendezvous with destiny—will begin in roughly ten years and end in roughly thirty.

Calamity shaped a life when, long ago, chance was so cruel.

The good die first.

I don't think any person has any special knowledge about what God has planned for me and you any more than me and you do.

Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play.

The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time.

Blood Brothers

Not that the title of top American ace wasn't flattering. After all, Rickenbacker had shot down seven enemy planes in as many months. It was just that all of the former recipients of the honor had all been killed, and he could not help but ruminate over what he called "the unavoidable doom that had overtaken its previous holders." Rickenbacker

You were saved because you were the first.You were saved because you were the last.Alone. With others.On the right. On the left.Because it was raining. Because of the shade.Because the day was sunny.

I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.

Manchmal sag' ich mir: dein Schicksal ist einzig; preise die übrigen glücklich—so ist noch keiner gequält worden.—dann lese ich einen Dichter der Vorzeit, und es ist mir, als säh' ich in mein eignes Herz. Ich habe so viel auszustehen! Ach, sind denn Menschen vor mir schon so elend gewesen?

No es justo? El destino nunca es justo.

Entonces el destino del que tanto hablaban los ases era algo que ellos habían predeterminado por él y no él mismo.

It would be the irony of fate if my administration had to deal chiefly with foreign affairs.