Quotes About Fate

The misfortune of those women was my good luck, their misery my escape.

Wherever you are, death will find you, even in the looming tower. O

Scientologists are trained to believe that whatever happens to them is somehow their fault, so much of the discussion in the Hole centered on what they had done to deserve this fate. The possibility that the leader of the church might be irrational or even insane was so taboo that no one could even think it, much less voice it aloud.

My father once told me that a happy ending is just the place where you choose to stop telling the story. So this is where I choose to stop. More things are still going to happen, of course, some good, some bad. Some things never get any better. When people die they stay dead. None of us knows why we love, or why we stop loving, or why everyone we love we lose.

Once you know the end of the story, every part of the story contains that end, and is only a way of reaching it.

Sooner or later you ended up an orphan. There was no escaping it.

Reacher thought, damn. The vagaries of chance.

Sooner or later you ended up an orphan. There was no escaping it. It had happened that

I guess she couldn't think of anything to say. But the truth was, I was doing OK at that point. Life was unfolding the same way it always had for everyone. Sooner or later you ended up an orphan. There was no escaping it. It had happened that way for a thousand generations. No point in getting all upset about it.

it was a coincidence. No point going over and over it. I was only in Margrave because of a crazy last-minute whim. If I'd taken a minute longer looking at the guy's map, the bus would have been past the cloverleaf and I'd have forgotten all about Margrave.

The Marines might grab you first. Fate worse than death.

It was a solid punch, and a lucky one. But not for him. It crushed his larynx. He went down on the floor again and suffocated. It was reasonably quick. About a minute and a half. There was nothing I could do for him. I'm not a doctor.

She's a fatalist," I said.

Someday, you know, we're going to be shown the great ledger of our recorded decisions-a dread concept you nonetheless know in your deepest soul is true.

Waltzer was stirred by the boy's assurance under stress. Waltzer believed in invented destiny and invented some then and there.

Life is a four-letter word.

La maledizione dell'uomo è di scoprire i mali nascosti in ciò che desidera solo quando è troppo tardi.

i didn't fall in love of course it's never up to you but she was walking back and forth and i was passing through

if events are random, we are not in control, and if we are in control of events, they are not random. There is therefore a fundamental clash between our need to feel we are in control and our ability to recognize randomness.

My father had drawn number 3,004 in a death lottery in which German precision trumped Nazi brutality.

Or as the Nobel laureate Max Born wrote, "Chance is a more fundamental conception than causality."3

there remains the big picture, the question of how much randomness contributes to where we are in life and how well we can predict where we are

We dare not brush aside unexplained a horror such as Nazism. If we are to avoid a fate like that of Germany, we must find out what made such a fate possible. We must find out what, at root, is required to turn a country, Germany or any other, into a Nazi dictatorship; and then we must uproot that root. We

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