Quotes About Fate

Good luck, we do find, often follows opportunity but seldom comes otherwise.

We all hope to be favored by the whimsical Goddess of Good Luck.

The desire to be lucky is universal.

Both the tales did illustrate how good luck follows opportunity. Herein lies a truth that many similar tales of good luck, won or lost, could not change. The truth is this: Good luck can be enticed by accepting opportunity.

bon Dieu ne fait personne sans lui réserver son bonheur dans une autre personne.

Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.

The contours of the coming disaster expanded to include the deaths of all present.

By Fate, by Destiny, said the Vermonter. By the fact that time runs in only one direction, and we are borne along by it, influenced precisely as we are, to do just the things that we do, the bass lisper said.

A train approaches a wall at a fatal rate of speed. You hold a switch in your hand, that accomplishes you know not what: do you throw it? Disaster is otherwise assured. It costs you nothing. Why not try?

We were as we were" …"how could we have been otherwise? Or, being that way, have done otherwise? We were that way, at that time, and had been led to that place, not by any innate evil in ourselves, but by the state of our cognition and experience up until that moment

Presidential couple may be imagined by anyone who has ever loved a child, and suffered that dread intimation common to all parents, that Fate may not hold that life in as high a regard, and may dispose of it at will.

The terror and the consternation of the Presidential couple may be imagined by anyone who has ever lived a child, and suffered that dread intimation common to all parents, that Fate may not hold that life in as high a regard, and may dispose of it at will. - In Selected Civil War Letters of Edwine Willow, edited by Constance Mays

Todo el mundo sabe lo que es un flechazo, el amor a primera vista; no hay forma de explicarlo. Sucede, no cabe duda de que sucede: una mirada, un gesto, en los que se decide toda una vida.

Fortuna se ha convertido en «fortuna», en el sentido del contador y del banquero.

qué someterse a las pruebas de la vida cuando no hay escapatoria a la muerte? La

Till her appointed course be run; Till on the darkness faint her breath Flown to the silent void, and Death Sit crowned upon the ashen sun. ("The Testimony of the Suns")

Some things are just too coincidental to be a coincidence.

I could have been a surgeon too,' he thought to himself. And owned a car like that. Probably not a surgeon, but it was a fact that he had almost become a doctor. He had set out to study medicine and sometimes felt a hankering for the medical profession. If his father hadn't died three years too soon …

It only takes a few minutes, a few seconds, to become a murderer. Before that you're a man like any other.

Your fate is writ clear; you will be murdered. I cannot conceive how it comes about that you were not murdered long since! How odd! Charles himself once said that to me, or something like it! There is nothing odd in it; any sensible man must say it!

You will be a widow before the morning.

He soon discovered that what Arabella lacked in inches she more than made up for in spirit. She tore his character to shreds and warned him of his ultimate fate

There is no excuse for me. If I had not been crazy with jealousy I should never have said what I did to you. I love you!' 'No doubt I should be flattered, but as I can scarcely conceive of a worse fate than to be married to you, this declaration fills me with repugnance!

Well, it was sufficient to explain it all to me,' Carlyon admitted. 'Once a performing bear had entered Nicky's orbit the rest was inevitable.