Quotes About Fate

To my way of thinking, an actor's course is set even before he's out of the cradle.

Man is the creature of circumstances.

We all know that we're going to die, but we don't know when. That's not a blessing, that's a curse.

I knew early on that I was going to be a writer. I think it's something rather like a curse that you're born with.

If I hadn't left Czechoslovakia, I would have been dead.

When I was signing up for the University of Southern California's music program, I flipped a coin to decide my major. If it came up heads, it would be flute - tails would be voice.

If you take risks and face your fate with dignity, there is nothing you can do that makes you small; if you don't take risks, there is nothing you can do that makes you grand, nothing.

It was a double jolt for me. The jolt of seeing my father slowly die, the jolt of knowing that I was diabetic and could meet the same fate if I didn't take care of myself.

There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.

And the two planes that were taking the band and crew that we had taken out to San Diego were flying out after the show. And so I was never supposed to be on that plane.

I can't beleive I'm here to tell the tale, this was my first brush with death, and God must have been looking after us and obviously, it wasn't our time.

With no guillotine, 'A Tale of Two Cities' would have been a travel guide.

Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.

See, talent is important, and so is hard work. But if you don't have destiny and good karma on your side, talent cannot do the magic by itself.

I believe things are meant to be. It's the only way I can explain it because I had auditioned before to get on 'The X Factor' and 'Britain's Got Talent,' and I didn't get through - it was literally, 'No!'

Destiny plays an important part, but talent and hard work is also important.

It's no good being talented and not being in the right place at the right time.

The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.

There are such pretty faces and so many more talents and people with more potential, but they never get their chance because they are not at the right place at the right time.

Aine plays a huge part in everything I do. We didn't study together; we didn't really have mutual friends, except for one, who had a party, and we both went to it. We met there and sat together for a long time just talking. We liked each other, and we were both trying to show that to one another, but nothing was happening.

An Ibra-Messi tandem would have been marvellous, but history decided otherwise.

We won't all disappear on a remote country road in the Monroe Valley, but like The Admiral and his wife we are all going into the dark. Some of us hope that before we do we have been honest enough to scream back at the fates. Or if we never did it ourselves, that someone, derelict or poet, did it for us once in some euphonic way our inadequate capacity for love did not deny our hearing.

We won't all disappear on a remote country road in the Monroe Valley, but like The Admiral and his wife we are all going into the dark. Some of us hope that before we do we have been honest enough to scream back at the fates. Or if we never did it ourselves, that someone, derelict or poet, did it for us once in some euphonic way our inadequate capacity for love did not deny our hearing. * From Brewster Ghiselin, Against the Circle (New York: Dutton, 1946), p. 60.

You trust to luck. You are not about to master your fate.