Quotes About Fate

The way I see it, she continued, is that some things are just meant to be the way they are.

Life has a way of disregarding even your best intentions.

Make your choices well, my mom had said. It was what she thought she hadn't done, what she hoped above everything I'd do differently. On the flip side, though, there was Clyde, telling me that there were second chances, even-and especially- when you've given up all hope of them. But maybe, when a life and summer was going so fast, you couldn't wait for fate to punch the time card. You had to do it yourself.

I could pretend otherwise, pushing it out of sight and hopefully out of mind. But if something was really important, fate made sure it somehow came back to you and gave you another chance.

Then, a life was ending. Here, one was about to begin. I didn't believe in signs. But it was hard to ignore the fact that someone, somewhere, might have wanted me to go through this again and see there was another outcome.

Yo solo pense para mi mismo, asi subitamente, que nosotros teniamos algo en comun. Una quimica natural, si tu deseas. Y yo tenia un sentimiento que algo grande iba a pasar. A ambos. Que nosotros estabamos, de hecho, hecho para estar juntos.

And in that moment, if only for that moment, we were right where we were supposed to be.

Everything, in the end, comes down to timing. One second, one minute, one hour, could make all the difference. So much hanging on just these things, tiny increments that together build a life.

The way I see it is that some things are just meant to be the way they are.

Por qué me tocan siempre a mí las hazañas estúpidas? -Porque eres pelirrojo.

Just because you don't get your chance right when you want or expect it doesn't mean it won't come. Fate doesn't punch a time clock or consult a schedule.

There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally.

Events conspired to bring you back to where you'd been. It was what you did then that made all the difference: it was all about potential.

The way I see it," she continued, "is that some things are just meant to be the way they are.

the truth is, nothing is guaranteed.

Lightning didn't strike twice, except when it did.

Sometimes, life just worked out the way it was supposed to.

Robert Todd Lincoln, a.k.a. Jinxy McDeath.

Siempre es demasiado tarde o demasiado temprano para lo que uno quiere hacer.

Siempre muere uno demasiado pronto...o demasiado tarde.

I am an American, Chicago born – Chicago, that somber city – and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted; sometimes an innocent knock, sometimes a not so innocent. But a man's character is his fate, says Heraclitus, and in the end there isn't any way to disguise the nature of the knocks by acoustical work on the door or gloving the knuckles.

He wondered at times whether he didn't belong to a class of people secretly convinced they had an arrangement with fate; in return for docility or ingenuous good will they were to be shielded from the worst brutalities in life.

But what if you get nailed?" He said, "I'll explain how I feel about it. You see, I don't have larceny in my heart; I'm not a real crook. I'm not interested in it, so nobody can make a fate of it for me. That's not my fate. I might get into a little trouble, but I never would let them make it my trouble, get it?" I

began to learn from her was of the utmost importance; namely, that everyone sees to it his fate is shared. Or tries