Quotes About Fate

In a thousand little ways, it seemed as though Grant was fated to fight this civil war. In battle, what galled Grant most was indecision. Once, an aide asked if he thought he was always right. "No!" Grant ripped back. "I am not, but in war anything is better than indecision. We must decide. If I am wrong we shall soon find it out and can do the other thing. But not to decide… may rum everything.

Later we can go to dinner." "I suppose that might work," she said. She sounded so damn casual, he thought. As if the decision she had just made weren't staggering in its implications. As if it weren't going to alter destinies and change the fate of nations.

What will my happiness be like? What kind of happy woman will Antigone grow into? What base things will she have to do, day after day, in order to snatch her own little scrap of happiness? Tell me – who will she have to lie to? Smile at? Sell herself to? Who will she have to avert her eyes from, and leave to die?

that the table established a kind of alliance between the parties, and made guests more apt to receive certain impressions and submit to certain influences. This was the origin of political gastronomy. Entertainments have become governmental measures, and the fate of nations is decided on in a banquet. This is neither a paradox nor a novelty but a simple observation

Fate didn't always speak up when called.

The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

Luck's always to blame.

Deznod?mintele cad ca tr?snetul. Nu cele ale istoriei, care nu vin niciodat?. Ci cele ale vie?ii, care vin foarte repede.

Cu mult mai mult decât ideile, ale c?ror combina?ii ?i sisteme se constituie prea adesea într-un echilibru instabil ?i ne transform? într-o clip?, circumspan?ele ?i temperamentele, care reprezint? ceva mai superficial ?i în acela?i timp mai profund, sunt cele care decid destinul oamenilor.

Po?i oare s? te sustragi timpului t?u? Po?i s? fii superior sau inferior, po?i s? lup?i împotriva lui cum încetasem noi s? o facem: pân? la urm? el te prinde îns?, ?i te înseamn? cu pecetea lui.

fiecare ?tie în prezent c? nu suntem aproape nimic altceva decât rodul circumstan?elor în care ne zbatem ?i care ne alc?tuiesc între hazard ?i necesitate.

trecutul meu este trecut, mai trecut decât alte trecuturi, ?i se scufund? în întuneric.

Nothing in the world is as certain as death.

he explains that tragedy's most cruel lesson is not that human beings are flawed, or that fate can be unkind, but that no one can ever slip the bonds of time. Outside

It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.

It is choice--not chance--that determines your destiny.

And there he lay in his bed, a broken man, worn out by a way of life which had been thrust upon him because of the antics of a wayward pig.

A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.

Est-ce un malheur si grand que de cesser de vivre?

Quand tu sauras mon crime, et le sort qui m'accable, Je n'en mourrai pas moins, j'en mourrai plus coupable

Have all beautiful things sad destinies?