Quotes About Fate

I would say of characters I've created, the one I've felt the most connected to emotionally was Adam Austin from 'The Prophet.' I think it was the connection to the idea that one decision you make innocently enough can have very serious, drastic consequences for someone else's life.

We have become makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.

I had that mindset that I feel that I am the best prospect in the draft, but everything happens for a reason.

When first we met we did not guess That Love would prove so hard a master.

If you can prove to me that one miracle took place, I will believe he is a just God who damned us all because a woman ate an apple.

You can be the best actor in the world, but if you don't have that one lucky moment, it kind of doesn't matter. There are a lot of amazing actors who will never get the chance to prove themselves because they won't have that one lucky moment.

There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.

Soon all of you immortals Will be as dead as we are! Come on then, what are you waiting for? Have you run out of thunderbolts?

Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.

Gods often contradict our fondest expectations. What we anticipate does not come to pass. What we don't expect some god finds a way to make it happen. So with this story

Yes, blood for blood, his bitter loan came due. He paid with death.

No mortal ever knows happiness and good fortune all the way to the end. Each one is born with his bitterness waiting for him.

AGAMEMNON: Oh immovable law of heaven! Oh my anguish, my relentless fate! CLYTEMNESTRA: Yours? Mine. Hers. No relenting for any of us.

Why long for death's marriage bed which human beings all shun? Death comes soon enough and brings an end to everything.

Death will be my wedding, children and glory.

Truly we are creatures of labor and suffering, and nothing for long. Labor and suffering, and the plain sight of our destiny is the cruelest thing of all.

Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgement.

Not for the first time I find our lives are a shadow, and I am not afraid to say that people who think they have everything figured out and are masters of logic - they are responsible for the greatest folly. No human being is happy. Strike it rich and you are luckier than your neighbor - but happy, never.

If only the herdsman had not brought him up with the flocks, not reared him, Paris, Alexander, to watch his flock by the clear springs where the nymphs rise, and the rich pastures starred with roses and hyacinths for the goddesses to gather.

And whatso man they call Happy, believe not ere the last day fall!

We are not subject to our own wills, our own desires. But to the fates and the fortunes that the gods hand to us. The future is turned before our eyes into wrenching heartache, into ashes and to splinters. From today I know that truly hope is dead. I ask you again, you who watch, how can there ever be any ending than this? First silence. Then darkness.

You gave birth to your own death.

Apollo, Apollo—but he is my lord. I will keep silence. He is wise forever, though his oracle spoke brutal words. We are bound to acquiesce. And you must do now as Fate and Zeus ordain.

SMRT:   Oho-ho! Otkud vi u sektoru? Å to se zadržavate, Apolone Febe, tu? Zar opet omalovažavate ingerencije donjih službi? Nije li dovoljan presedan bilo Admetovo izuze?e, odjel sudbine grubo izmanipuliran? Zar se sada, je li, okre?e vaÅ¡a oružana sila i u obranu predmetne žene koja je sama odlu?ila provesti zna?ajne izmjene u planu umiranja supruga?