Quotes About Fate

Failure and success seem to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star or against it, and in the whole universe the only really interesting movement is this wriggle.

Failure or success seem to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star or against it, and in the whole universe the only really interesting movement is this wriggle.

I seem fated to pass through the world without colliding with it or moving it — and I'm sure I can't tell you whether the fate's good or evil. I don't die — I don't fall in love. And if other people die or fall in love they always do it when I'm just not there.

Who could help anything? Not only in sex, but in all things men have moved blindly, have evolved out of slime to dissolve into it when this accident of consequences is over.

As anyone who is familiar with cows know, a thirsty calf often gets a kick if it gets too aggressive. This was Caponnetto's fate, as well as the fate of those Catholics who objected to the "explicit and disastrous judaization of the Church

It was your destiny - let us hope it will prove a glorious one.

It is impossible to foretell the future with any degree of accuracy, that it is impossible to rehearse life. A fault in the scenery, a face in the audience, an interruption of the audience on to the stage, and all our carefully planned gesture mean nothing, or mean too much.

Miss Abbott, don't worry over me. Some people are born not to do things. I'm one of them.

Indoors herself, partaking of tea with old Mrs Butterworth, she reflected that it is impossible to foretell the future with any degree of accuracy, that it is impossible to rehearse life. A fault in the scenery, a face in the audience, an irruption of the audience onto the stage, and all our carefully planned gestures mean nothing, or mean too much.

Scheherazade avoided her fate because she knew how to wield the weapon of suspense –the only literary tool that has any effect upon tyrants and savages.

It's a risk, so's everything else, and we'll only live once.

You can do what you like, but the outcome will be the same.

It's a chance in a thousand we've met, we'll never have the chance again and you know it. Stay with me. We love each other.

I seem fated to pass through the world without colliding with it or moving it—and I'm sure I can't tell you whether the fate's good or evil.

But Love cannot understand this. He cannot comprehend another's infinity; he is conscious only of his own—flying sunbeam, falling rose, pebble that asks for one quiet plunge below the fretting interplay of space and time. He knows that he will survive at the end of things, and be gathered by Fate as a jewel from the slime, and be handed with admiration round the assembly of the gods.

she reflected that it is impossible to foretell the future with any degree of accuracy, that it is impossible to rehearse life. A fault in the scenery, a face in the audience, an irruption of the audience on to the stage, and all our carefully planned gestures mean nothing, or mean too much.

marry him; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.

Ask not for whom the bell tolls You might get an answer you don't especially like.

All things come alike to all there is one event to the righteous and to the wicked.

?nsanlar?n hikayelerini yazanlar evvela ?unu bilmeli: Kaderini yaz?yorsun yaln?z olacaks?n. Hem de hep.

Geography means destiny." – Ibn Khaldun

pereunt et imputantur mors ianua vitae

90 percent of heart patients who are told to change their lifestyle habits or die, choose death over change.

rejected the life everyone expected of him. "My luck was running out," he said in a 1984 interview for The Paris Review. "I was going to jail, I was going to kill somebody or be killed.