Quotes About Fate

With chess it was almost this palpable electricity that I felt. You're totally in control of your own fate. There's no luck factor. It's you and the pieces.

To me, it was a sad fate to have been born into a period and a world where everything was in tip-top order, and the only real excitement was to be found in history books and occasionally also in the paper.

I didn't choose Paris. I like to think that the city chose me.

Maybe I'll be 48 and die in the gutter in Paris.

Mozart was born Mozart. Charlie Parker was born Charlie Parker.

Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular all his life long.

Scotland and England may sometimes be rivals, but by geography, we are also neighbours. By history, allies. By economics, partners. And by fate and fortune, comrades, friends and family.

It is nearly always the most improbable things that really come to pass.

It is precisely to put an end to this separation between manual and brain work that we want to abolish wagedom, that we want the Social Revolution. Then work will no longer appear a curse of fate: it will become what it should be — the free exercise of all the faculties of man.

Activity becomes process. Choices become destiny. Men then live in the world they themselves have made as if they were fated to do so by powers that are quite independent of their own world-constructing enterprises.

But if men and women were not at the mercy of impersonal deities and random chance, they could no longer remain passive in the face of an unknown future. They had no choice but to begin making decisions over a far wider range of circumstances and over far longer periods of time than ever before.

And Our freedom depends on other people's freedom, for our fates are inextricably interwoven with others', especially with those we love.

Our freedom depends on other people's freedom, for our fates are inextricably interwoven with others', especially with those we love.

And as the wary dogs skirt past, we nod, grimace, and resume our paths to separate destinies and graves.

No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place.

There, but for the grace of God, go you and I.

Charles] Nodier's later view was that fantasy reconciles men to their fate. Fantasy and the taste for chimeras, he wrote, are symptoms of a time of political decay and transition, when the unpleasant realities of political life are too hard to bear. They serve a useful purpose in that they give men hope when scepticism and disillusion would otherwise drive them to despair.

There is something sweetly inexplicable that passes between two people who are destined to meet when one day, after wandering often aimlessly through life, searching without ever knowing for exactly what, the heavens finally fall into alignment and they happen upon one another unexpectedly, as if by magic.

This much should be clear by now: the term 'renaissance' can only remain fruitful and demanding as long as it refers to a far-reaching idea: that it is the fate of Europeans to develop life and forms of life according to and alongside the Christian definitions of life and forms of life.

I generally wade in blind and trust to fate and instinct to see me through.

Do you expect to talk to us, Master Musgrave?' 'No, Lord Robert, I expect to die,' said Tom.

We all come into the story halfway through, we all catch up as best we can, and we're all gonna die before it ends.

We all come into the story half way through, we all catch up as best we can, and we're all gonna die before it ends.

We're dead anyway, all we get to choose is the exit strategy.