Quotes About Fate

The choices one makes, not one's blood, determine one's destiny - John Steinbeck

Do not resist the flow of your life because it's your destiny.

Murphy's Law states that, "If anything will go wrong, it will".Positive side of this law is, "If anything good can happen, it definitely will happen

You are the draftsman and craftsman of your own destiny.

I cannot pretend that I regard this with favor, but the purpose of life is not to do what we want but what needs to be done. This is what fate demands of us. - Oromis

When you were born, you were given a one-way ticket. You can never come back and visit your past.

Sometimes you are in the middle of your destiny before you even know it has begun.

Faith define the fate of man.

In a novel, the author gives the leading character intelligence and distinction. Fate goes to less trouble: mediocrities play a part in great events simply from happening to be there.

There is a plan to this universe. There is a high intelligence, maybe even a purpose, but it's given to us on the installment plan.

Whom the gods notice they destroy. Be small... and you will escape the jealousy of the great.

In omni adversitate fortunæ, infelicissimum genus est infortunii fuisse felicem In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.

When Philip had news brought him of divers and eminent successes in one day, "O Fortune!" said he, "for all these so great kindnesses do me some small mischief.

The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.

None of us can ever know for sure who we are going to die with.)

Anlam aramaktan ya da bir anlam olduÄŸunu zannetmekten daha kötü bir ÅŸey yoktur. Vard?r asl?nda, daha da beteri vard?r: bir ÅŸeyin, önemsiz bur ayr?nt?n?n bile olsa anlam?n?n bize, eylemlerimize, amac?m?za ya da iÅŸlevimize baÄŸl? olduÄŸuna inanmak; iradenin ve kaderin, hatta her ikisinin girift bir bileÅŸiminin var olduÄŸuna inanmak.

Anlam aramaktan ya da bir anlam olduÄŸunu zannetmekten daha kötü bir ÅŸey yoktur. Vard?r asl?nda, daha da beteri vard?r: bir ÅŸeyin, önemsiz bir ayr?nt?n?n bile olsa anlam?n?n bize, eylemlerimize, amac?m?za ya da iÅŸlevimize baÄŸl? olduÄŸuna inanmak; iradenin ve kaderin, hatta her ikisinin girift bir bileÅŸiminin var olduÄŸuna inanmak.

no podemos culparnos de las cosas que se escapan a nuestro control.

Qué necios aquellos que aún creen que nuestra existencia carnal no está planificada desde el nacimiento hasta la muerte, incluso en los más nimios detalles... Qué necios aquellos que, aun habiéndose enfrentado a los avatares de la vida, todavía creen en la casualidad.

Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; The way you play it is free will.

It had always irked me that gods never said, "Next Tuesday, Rajit will be struck with boils in his mouth and choke to death." What good was prophecy if you had to live through the events foretold before you could begin to understand them?

Most people never choose anything. They are chosen for, or they follow what is left to them after their choices have been eaten away by time, by ill fortune, by their own actions or the deeds of others.

The only thing that separates the Jews of Israel from the fate of the Christians, Yazidis, and other religious minorities in Iraq and Syria is the might of the Israel Defense Forces. Faced with murderous terrorists, Israelis are able to respond with F-16s, Merkava tanks, and one of the best-trained armies in the world.

The ultimate fate of nations is often measured and swayed not by large events, but by tiny ones, small, symbolic gestures that shape men's passions, assuage or incite their fears, and quell or inflame lingering hostilities