Quotes About Fate

Mnich do Mariny: - Wszystko b?dzie si? toczy?, bo i tak si? toczy. Przypomnij sobie histori? Buddy - otrzyma? o?wiecenie, ale dopiero wtedy, kiedy ca?kowicie si? podda?. Czasami robisz, co tylko mo?esz, ?eby osi?gn?? cel, ale nic z tego nie wychodzi, bo kosmos ma wobec ciebie inne plany.

You can't hide the thunderbolt. When it hits you, everybody can see it. Christ, man, don't be ashamed of it, some men pray for the thunderbolt. You're a very lucky fellow. - Calo

And in that fraction of a second before anything actually happened, Santino Corleone knew he was a dead man.

Every man has but one destiny

destiny had decided that he was to become a Don and had brought Fanucci to him to set him on his destined path.

Writing, like gambling, was always a big part of my life," he used to say. "Both gave me sanctuary from the world. And you never really had to kill someone to get what you wanted. You just had to beat fate.

Let me go further. If my son is struck by a bolt of lightning I will blame some of the people here.

have no intention of placing my fate in the hands of men whose only qualification is that they managed to con a bloc of people to vote for them.

long race with death

a man has but one destiny

Strangers decide their lives.

Great men have allied themselves with the angels at a terrible price to themselves. Evil men indulge their slightest whim for small satisfactions while accepting the fate of burning in Hell.

As much as a man can guarantee anything against fate. Yes, I'm confident

O comes o te comen, no hay más remedio.

Con dogmáticos o con inteligentes, el Perú estará siempre jodido —dijo Carlitos—. Este país empezó mal y acabará mal. Como nosotros, Zavalita.

Maar tegelijk bedacht ik dat me in mijn leven al zoveel dingen waren overkomen dat ik diende te weten dat niets onmogelijk was, dat de meest bizarre en ongeloofwaardige coïncidenties en voorvallen zich konden voordoen als het meisje, dat nu mijn vrouw was, er iets mee te maken had.

What I learned is the difference between of destiny and fate. We are all fated to die. Destiny is recognizing the radiance of the soul that, even when faced with human impossibility, loves all of life. Fate is the death we owe to Nature. Destiny is the life we own to soul.

But some things, no matter how unlikely, are just supposed to happen. You know what I mean. Some things just smack of the future and feel part of an overarching rightness.

A deus ex machina will never appear in real life so you best make other arrangements.

Most people ended up, after only a couple of months, far, far away from where they'd intended to go, stuck in some barbed underbrush of a quagmire when they'd meant to head straight to the ocean.

The dark side of life has a way of finding us all anyway, so stop chasing it.

It was a fluke. But then, life is.

I suggest you resolve yourself to your fate

I had so many professions before. I didn't want to do this particularly. It just happened.