Quotes About Fate

Las personas que consiguen lo que no merecen sufren terribles desgracias."- Las amapolas del emperador.

Human efforts are ineffective" (N'atthi purisakare) was the slogan of the Âjîvikä(s).

Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it's now or never.

Our history is not our destiny.

But I smell the roses not just to remind myself of how lucky I am, but also to wonder how on earth it all happened. I smell the roses to try and figure out how I came to be in the garden at all.

spies and journalists were fated to go through life together, and it was sometimes hard to tell one from the other. Their jobs weren't all that different: they talked to politicians, developed sources in government bureaux, and dug around for secrets.

Pasoon," Reshmina said, "what if there was another way? What if—" But when she looked up, Pasoon was gone.

It was a world war, and the fate of every nation on Earth, neutral or not, lay in the balance. When the war was over, the world would be ruled one way, or the other—by freedom or fascism, by hope or by fear. I had seen the depths, the lengths, the Nazis would go to win that war, sacrificing their own children to the cause, and I also knew firsthand the sacrifices the Allies had made to stop them. I

Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices. —Alfred A. Montapert

What sense is there in continuing when one has seen the future?

In a world of fixed future, life is an infinite corridor of rooms, one room lit at each moment, the next room dark but prepared. We walk from room to room, look into the room that is lit, the present moment, then walk on. We do not know the rooms ahead, but we know we cannot change them. We are spectators of our lives.

It was not his habit to dwell on what might have been but what could never be.

Man plans and God laughs," said Seth.

I have a rendezvous with DeathAt some disputed barricade,When spring comes back with rustling shadeAnd apple blossoms fill the air.

But it's the greater fate of the Congregation that concerns me more. Our Occupation, and how it will end. I thought it silly of Rackamore to be troubled by such a distant concern, but I find it much harder to dismiss his fears now. What is the point of any deed, good or otherwise, if this little window of civilisation of ours will soon have its end?

It wasn't always about bravery or some shining inner goodness. It could just as easily be about the position of your name in the alphabet, the chemistry of your blood, or

He knew what he was doing. You probably weren't meant to die." "And that makes me lucky? It wasn't remotely unlucky to end up impaled on a wall in the first place? Just a thought.

I believe there's fate, and then you have personal choice. I believe we have the ability to change our fate.

Personal relationships, mood, chance, or anything like that can actually affect people's decisions, and when they're in a position of power, their capriciousness can affect the fate of a nation.

Usually on jobs I'm quite philosophical and think 'The right girl gets the part and everything is meant to be.'

I believe in destiny and the philosophy of karma.

I didn't decide to be a photographer; I just happened to fall into it.

I was discovered by a photographer. I literally was in the right place at the right time.

I guess if I had to put it into a single phrase, the moral of the Frank stories is that the hammer never really falls.