Quotes About Fate

Yes, life always takes the side of life, and somehow the victims are blamed. But it wasn't the best people who survived, nor did the best ones die. It was random!

In high school ethics, they went around and asked what everyone thought their classmates were qualified to do. For me, everyone said actress. But to me it was very much 'if it happens, it happens.'

I do feel I have all the qualities of a film star but then why didn't I make it that big? I blame it on my destiny. I was not there at the right place at the right time.

I've never wanted to be an actress. I came into the industry to be a filmmaker, but let us say fate had other plans for me. I don't want to be the next glamour queen.

I don't think anyone is qualified to answer questions of eternal fate definitively, much less pinpoint it to a given day.

The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility.

During the race there's only so much you can do. Whatever's going to happen is going to happen.

I met my second husband on a bus. We looked at each other and that was it. We were both married to other people at the time and behaved badly, but we didn't seem to have any choice. We were very happy for nearly 50 years and would still be together if it wasn't for the bloody railways.

I was raised with the idea that I was born dying. That with every breath you take, you get closer to your last. It's something I've always known.

Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly; and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men.

You can blow on the dice all you want, but whether they come up 'seven' is still a function of random luck.

As a person, I am totally obsessed with the choices and decisions we make in our lives and how they dictate the course of our lives. Seemingly random choices that we make end up defining everything.

The euro is our common fate, and Europe is our common future.

There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learned to separate them.

At the end of the day, life is a gamble, isn't it? A lot of it is sheer luck.

If you're going to die on 'Game of Thrones,' you have to die well, haven't you?

I grew up on an estate in Manchester and people I've known from school have died in gang trouble and I always thought, if I'd been on a different estate at a different time, it could have been me.

Genes are not destiny!

Your genes are not your fate... if you change your lifestyle, you change your genes.

I am lucky to be genetically blessed.

I believe in astrology as much as I do in genetics.

I was, for some reason, born knowing how to get married.

There's a lot of luck involved in getting married to the right woman.

I believe we all must face the fact of death. It is both gift and curse.