Quotes About Fate

The top 1 percent have the best houses, the best educations, the best doctors, and the best lifestyles, but there is one thing that money doesn't seem to have bought: an understanding that their fate is bound up with how the other 99 percent live.

We do not, most of us, choose to die; nor do we choose the time and conditions of our death. But within this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we live.

The ignoble fate of the political appointee.

Wysoko na niebie bia?a chmura formuje si? w kszta?t swastyki (...)Znak opatrzno?ci!? (Droben am Himmel formt sich eine weiße Wolke zum Hakenkreuz. Ein Zeichen des Schicksals?)

Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.

Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.

weird ye to be a Laidly Worm, And borrowed shall ye never be, Until Childe Wynd, the King's own son Come to the Heugh and thrice kiss thee; Until the world comes to an end, Borrowed shall ye never be.

He was the first young man Alex had met since he arrived, all the others buried or missing, irretrievable. Then a few dragging steps and Alex saw why: a Goebbels clubfoot had kept him out of war.

These concepts implied fixed futures, parallel universes, and an overall or grand design, doing away with innovative or changing possibilities.

In a universe, on a continent, in a country, in a state, in a county, on a river, in a small yellow boat,' I said. 'That's what Mary used to say to explain the odds of us meeting. And you have to be born in roughly the same period. Those are the odds. And probably you need to speak the same language.'-- Cobb

Don't spit into heaven... Don't tell the gods your plans; they'll only laugh.

Tu vida fue una vida llena de miseria, sin sentido. Cuando éramos jóvenes gocé tu carne. En los últimos años la he desdeñado. Tal vez fuera ése nuestro pecado. Como el calor del amor no estaba en nosotros, sino el hielo de la costumbre, todo a nuestro alrededor ha muerto, todo se atrofió y se echó a perder. Tienes suerte, Deborah. El Señor ha tenido compasión de ti.

Ich glaube, der Krieg hat uns verdorben. Gestehen wir, dass wir zu Unrecht zurückgekommen sind. Wir wissen so viel wie die Toten, wir müssen uns aber dumm stellen, weil wir zufällig am Leben geblieben sind.

It was quite obvious, it was, as people say, as clear as day, that Lieutenant Trotta, the grandson of the hero of Solferino, was partly bringing about the doom of others, partly being pulled under by those who were themselves going down, and, in any case, that he was one of those unhappy beings on whom an evil power had cast its evil eye.

The calendrical harshness of nature is nothing to the boundless cruelty of history.

Our grandfathers didn't leave us much strength, not enough strength to live with, but just about enough to die a meaningless death. Ach!

Four Will Become Two, Lion and Tiger Will Meet in Battle, and

She knew she would have to wait for Frecklewish to pass by on patrol; even then, Mapleshade would need the luck of StarClan to get the she-cat alone.

Jaypaw, Lionpaw, and Hollypaw would fulfill their destiny at last.

It was never meant to be.

StarClan is calling you, Fireheart," she murmured. "Do not be afraid." Then she faded, leaving him with nothing but the wind and the stars. StarClan calling me? Fireheart thought, puzzled. Am I dying, then?

You have a prophecy hanging over your head like a hawk. You're fire, and only water can destroy you! You can't ignore the signs.

StarClan knows our destiny better than any of

He hadn't chosen to be Firestar's kin.