Quotes About Fate

Circumstances rule men and not men rule circumstances.

Do we, holding that gods exist, deceive ourselves with unsubstantiated dreams, and lies, while random careless chance and change alone rule the world

The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.

This is courage in a man to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.

Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes angry.

You were a stranger to sorrow: therefore Fate has cursed you.

Oh diary, what have I done to deserve dying so young?

The multiverse being released, we always knew that is where 'Loki's story was going to end.

Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate.

'Romeo & Juliet' is still relevant and real.

The Luke Cage you saw in Season One was a reluctant hero. He was trying to figure out if he wanted to be a hero in the first place. And then fate intervened and forced him to step up his game.

A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm; that after they have lost all they are sure to lose on mixing with the world, enough may still remain to prompt fated support them through great actions.

I guess some characters always remain the same, and Macbeth is one of them.

My career has been full of remarkable coincidences that have nothing to do with me.

We can sit around and go, okay, is there really a plan, does somebody really know what's happening, is it all planned out, because sometimes it just seems too remarkable to me the things that have happened to me.

In the Gospels, we are reminded, 'The very hairs of your head are all numbered.' And your numbered hairs, like your numbered days, recede daily.

Which reminds me of a fortune cookie: you often find your destiny on the path you take to avoid it.

The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off.

My fate is to be President of the Republic - or leader of the opposition.

That got me to L.A. and reintroduced me to my future husband.

Chance is a name for our ignorance.

Ignorance is bliss, or so we're told. Personally, I find ignorance is also destiny.

We are born in the world because we have to learn something through whatever we're born into. Although it might be awful. That's why it's an illusion to think that we really run our lives. We don't.

We think we can control life by controlling our immediate circumstances. But we can't!