Quotes About Fate

Liberty, according to my metaphysics, is an intellectual quality, an attribute that belongs not to fate nor chance. Neither possesses it, neither is capable of it. There is nothing moral or immoral in the idea of it. The definition of it is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power; it can elect between objects, indifferent in point of morality, neither morally good nor morally evil.

The paradoxical conclusion is that it would be very unlikely for unlikely events not to occur.

It is impossible for a Die, with such determin'd force and direction, not to fall on such determin'd side, only I don't know the force and direction which makes it fall on such determin'd side, and therefore I call it Chance, which is nothing but the want of art.

Am I th'abandon'd orphan of blind chance; Dropt by wild atoms in disorder'd dance? Or from an endless chain of causes wrought? And of unthinking substance, born with thought?

'Tis not for mortals always to be blest.

It is the lumps and trials That tell us whether we shall be known And whether our fate can be exemplary, like a star.

I've kept the jasmine and rotted horseflesh separate, knowing you'll do the honours. Destiny will greet us. After that you're on your own.

And time shall force a gift on each.

death, the greatest enemy, would put in an appearance today. Now that he was here he was sure of it. Death seemed to be holding so many souls in the balance of his reaping hand.

Los tangos están hechos por pedazos de vida que han sobrevivido por casualidad

300 million people turned into jelly by The Wave and Rupert Murdoch wasn't one of them. There is no god.

My brother Henry must heir the land, My brother Frank must be at his command; Whilst I, poor Jack, will do that That all the world will wonder at!

The Angel of Death has been abroad throughout the land; you may almost hear the beating of his wings. There is no one, as when the first-born were slain of old, to sprinkle with blood the lintel and the two side-posts of our doors, that he may spare and pass on; he takes his victims from the castle of the noble, the mansion of the wealthy, and the cottage of the poor and lowly.

The mediocrity principle simply states that you aren't special. The universe does not revolve around you; this planet isn't privileged in any unique way; your country is not the perfect product of divine destiny; your existence isn't the product of directed, intentional fate; and that tuna sandwich you had for lunch was not plotting to give you indigestion.

No one could say it was my choice to kill the twins, any more than it was my decision to bring them into the world.

Temperament lies behind mood; behind will, lies the fate of character. Then behind both, the influence of family the tyranny of culture; and finally the power of climate and environment; and we are free, only to the extent we rise above these.

What you intend and what you do not intend have smaller import than you might suspect. The question is not what you shall do with life but what life shall do with you.

Dr. Henry Templeton got the drop on me after I killed his grandfather before he was born. Apparently, that wasn't enough to stop the bastard.

whenever God is pleased to make way for his providence, he even in external matters so turns and bends the wills of men, that whatever the freedom of their choice may be, it is still subject to the disposal of God.

Whence follows the plain conclusion, that if all men were elected, no man would perish.

Let us imagine, for example, a merchant who, entering a wood with a company of faithful men, unwisely wanders away from his companions, and in his wandering comes upon a robber's den, falls among thieves, and is slain. His death was not only foreseen by God's eye, but also determined by his decree. For it is not said that he foresaw how long the life of each man would extend, but that he determined and fixed the bounds that men cannot pass [Job 14:5]. Yet

It is, indeed, true for pagans that the greatest blessing is not to be born, and the next, to die immediately.

Unless God himself had by his election redeemed us from ruin, there would have been nothing but ruin to foresee. .

God did not look for a cause outside himself, but predestined us because it was his will to do it. But