Quotes About Fate

There's no such thing as coincidence – only controlled bursts of fate.

What if life had taken a different route? What is had preserved with those letters to publishers when she was twenty-two? Might it have been Emma, instead of Stephanie Shaw, eating Pret A Manger sandwiches in a pencil skirt? For some time now she has had conviction that life is about to change if only because it must, and perhaps this it, perhaps this meeting is the new start.

And so the condemned man, presented with his final meal, is reminded that at least the cheesecake is delicious.

It's like Russian Roulette, one in six'll kill you.

That was the way with Moldenke, a brightly burning candle with a shortened wick, destined to burn low and give off gas.

Once upon a time, in the Official Version, we were blessed and happy, our parents young, privileged and good-looking, we, their children, bound for special destinies like they'd had. In Boston, our ship struck the iceberg and went down in an hour, but all hands appeared to make to the lifeboats. The trip to shore proves long, and only when we finally muster do we realize one of us is missing.

The future, like the past, is written. It cannot be changed, but it can help to heal the wounds of the present.

Bit lucky there" says Don. "Thought God might be smiling on you." "I don't believe in luck," you tell Don. "And I don't believe in God." "So what do you believe in then?" asks Don Revie. "Me," you tell him "Brian Howard Clough.

I'm here to tell you that the fate of your brain is not in your genes. It's not inevitable. And if you're someone who suffers from another type of brain disorder, such as chronic headaches, depression, epilepsy, or extreme moodiness, the culprit may not be encoded in your DNA. It's in the food you eat.

Its evolutionary adaptability is largely gone. Ecologically, it has become moribund. Sheer chance, among other factors, is working against it. The toilet of its destiny has been flushed.

And hopefully nothing will happen." But of course, as she well knew, something always does happen. It's just a question of what and when.

I am going to the bad place, as is my wont.

We do not create our destiny; we participate in its unfolding. Synchronicity works as a catalyst toward the working out of that destiny.

The challenge is to find our destiny in exactly what we are refusing to engage in.

This is the world in which everyone is sensitised to risk but indifferent to fate.

They were all helpless. They didn't ask to be born and they didn't ask to die. They were made to. But why, in between, did there have to be such pain? Perhaps humankind was more amusing that way. Perhaps they provided entertainment

No matter what we do, no matter how we agonize or obsess, we cannot choose for our children whether they live or die.

It took my near death, however, to comprehend that his fate—and Jasper's and Daisy's—is separate from mine. I can try to protect my children, to help and guide them, and I can love them, but I cannot save them. Nic, Jasper, and Daisy will live, and someday they will die, with or without me.

It's good to be good, but it's better to be lucky.

Imagine the life of the last human. Someone was the last Neanderthal. One day, Homo sapien's time will come too. Someone will be the last of our species. What a strange fate that is. They won't have anyone to tell their tale to

The Revolution eats its own. That's the law. And the greatest heroes die with it. They always know their fate when they begin. That's their true heroism.

que las personas nacen como nace una canción, que suena de pronto. No naces bajo un cálculo, sino en una cascada de accidentes y azares, lo que debería ayudarnos a vivir con mayor levedad y no lo contrario. Las raíces se convierten en algo primario, porque nos atornillan al mundo. Pero las raíces no dejan volar.

Belief in miracles is the confidence that, at rare and wondrous moments, grace may overcome fate.

But for the want of a nail, a kingdom was lost