Quotes About Fate

You can't pick and choose who's going to win or who's gonna mess up.

Things are forgotten and then perhaps picked up again, if we're lucky, it lasts... if not, then it's in the lap of the gods. The important thing was to do some work that I liked and hopefully that some others might also like, whether for a minute, a week, a month, a year.

I never really wanted to be a writer. I know it sounds strange, but I honestly believe that I didn't pick the story; the story has picked me. I've written absolutely no fiction before 'The Immortals of Meluha.' Not even a short story in school - absolutely nothing.

I think that 'The Outsiders' was meant to be written, and I was just picked to write it.

It really wasn't about picking Chicago. I feel like Chicago picked me.

You pick your destiny or maybe destiny picks you. But it picked me to box, definitely.

All the credit goes to Jesus Christ, Mother Mary, Shani Bhagwan and Ganpati. These are the four pillars of my destiny.

Sometimes you get the pinball machine and sometimes the pinball machine gets you.

Had Cain been Scot, God would have changed his doom nor forced him wander, but confine him home.

I never look at it as if any of my successes were given to me through fate. Getting record deals, making the songs I've made, having fans and working with the people I work with aren't chance. I know that dedication and work have gotten me to where I am and will get me to where I wanna go.

Smoking kills you, but life kills you, and if you don't want to die, go into a freezer when you are born and nothing will happen to you.

I'll die before I'm 25, and when I do I'll have lived the way I wanted to.

I never wanted a Guardian Angel. I didn't ask for one. One was assigned to me.

Some things happen without you putting an effort, while some others things do not happen despite we wanting it to happen.

That I am today the face of Louis Vuitton almost seems like a twist of fate. You dream back to front, wanting the rewards before putting the work in. And then you work, get on with life, and just sometimes these childhood dreams have a way of catching up with you. This is a true privilege for which I am eternally grateful.

He was a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes to war must die. Show me a gambler and I'll show you a loser, show me a hero and I'll show you a corpse.

Listen, we elected Warren G. Harding. Anybody has a chance.

The history of England, who has always dealt most harshly with her vanquished foe in the few European wars in which she has taken part in modern times, gives us Germans an idea of the fate in store for us if defeated.

Invisible factors in my life would inevitably lead to my downfall. I felt I had known this all along. There was no escape.

The twin gods, Necessity and Chance, walked among the stars. What needed to be, was; what might be, sometimes was." I

There are two sacred causes in this world," he said, holding up his pinkie and ring finger. "Chance and necessity. By chance, I was there to help when you had need.

We are all pulled toward our doom in exactly the same way, by exactly the same force.

What's your story, dress?" Charlotte whispered. "Where'd you come from and why'd you come looking for me? One orphaned girl seeking another?

Charlotte read the preprinted slip. Redeemed. $1,000. She whirled around. "Wait, sir, excuse me, but how did you know . . ." But he was gone. Along with the crowd and the hum of voices. Charlotte stood completely alone except for the battered trunk and the glittering swirl in the air.