Quotes About Fate

I never used to believe in fate. I used to think you make your own life and then you call it fate. That's why I call it irony.

Nothing in life is promised except death.

Life's a wheel of fortune and it's my chance to spin it.

I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.

You know what I think? I think there's a reason for everything. And I think that there's a plan for everyone. And I think that God has a big plan for me. Just not in this life.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

"Everyone wants to believe that there's something else – something great – waiting for them on the other side. Paradise. Valhalla. Heaven. Their next – hopefully less horrible – life.

Life is a lottery that we've already won. But most people have not cashed in their tickets.

Ah well, I suppose it has come to this... Such is life.

You are an Englishman, and have subsequently drawn the greatest prize in the lottery of life.

As Shakespeare points out, it is common for people to die. Going

What, if anything, might have made a difference, or if it was always going to happen like this. In this universe. On this day.

Accidents and acts of God don't mean a thing, unless they're followed later by acts of will.

This only is denied the Gods: the power to remake the past. —ARISTOTLE

we all suffer in our different ways from being prisoners of birth.

You feel that you cannot shape the course of events in your life. You feel trapped by circumstances or swept along by fate. Rather than an actor, you are a reactor. You feel there is little you can do to solve your problems.

Well, marriage doesn't function in the way it used to in terms of deciding our fate, but it's in our heads, and it determines a lot of our actions. Like, right now, if you think about gay marriage - and they just started having the first gay marriages in New York - it shows what a potent idea marriage remains for people.

Others may predict my future but only I can determine my destiny."

We strive to decide our own fate. We act with self-reliance, trusting in our own abilities. We accept responsibility for our conduct and for maintaining and improving the skills that enable us to produce added value.

El destino es una puerte que descansa sobre los goznes del azar.

There are many stories locked into our genes. Some of these are health tragedies while others are health miracles.

Five years from now, we'll all be erased," Jocelyn says, and we all sort of laugh. It's not funny, and yet it kind of is.

You need to take control of your own destiny.

She'd died, been saved from the river Styx, and been offered the chance to become a god all in one day. It was a lot to swallow for any girl.