Quotes About Fate

It is an exciting and dangerous time, for this generation of Americans has the opportunity so rarely granted to others by fate and history. We literally have the chance to shape the future -- to put our own stamp on the face and character of America, to bend history just a little bit.

A rabbit's foot may bring good luck to you, but it brought none to the rabbit.

If public opinion were determined by a throw of the dice, it would in the long run be half the time right.

Okur kitap arar ama, kitab?n da okuru buldu?unu ben çok gördüm. Aç?klanabilir bir ?ey söylemiyorum belki, ama "rastlant?lar"?n ço?u, aç?klayamad???m?z için rastlant? görünmez mi?

So much must be established at birth . . . in the random choosing of a name.

Some people save the world and some make up the numbers. But then Thorns stumbled along.

See, it's all about Fate. Fate that I'm going to be a dead kid. Fate that you got tangled up with me. We're both stuck and all we can do is make the best of it.

The choices you make create your future.

Having your fate rest in the hands of a jury is the same as entrusting yourself to surgery with a mentally retarded doctor.

I am rejoiced at my fate. I would rather be in my present situation than be elected to a seat in Congress for life. Do not be uneasy about me, I am with my friends … Farewell, David Crockett." His

Ironically, John Wilkes Booth often rented this very room during the previous summer. In fact, as recently as three weeks ago, Booth lolled on the very bed in which Lincoln is now dying.

The man with forty-five minutes to live cannot defend himself.

It is time for us to realize that we are too great a nation to limit ourselves to small dreams," he preaches in his inaugural address. "We're not, as some would have us believe, doomed to inevitable decline. I do not believe in a fate that will fall on us no matter what we do. "I believe in a fate that will fall on us if we do nothing." *

Two days later, a woman in Reading, Pennsylvania, also

It's all written out, you know. Everything is fate. All written out in Heaven, or written out in Hell.

Hope isn't destiny. Left passive its nothing more than disappointment deferred

I love you, Snow, and have since the hour we first met. Hell, I wanted you even before then. Since before we existed. As if every movement of every star and planet, every tick of creation's clock occurred only so that we could someday find each other.

Everything happens kind of the way it's supposed to happen, and we just watch it unfold. And you can't control it. Looking back, you can't say, 'I should've... ' You didn't, and had you, the outcome would have been different.

The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them.

Everything happens for a reason, so you shouldn't get wound up.

O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!

Over the years, I thought many times about how my life would have changed if I had been drafted and Styx never had happened. Even if I hadn't been wounded or emotionally scarred, it would have changed my whole timetable.

America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description.

I witnessed other inmates' time run out, and I'd be lying if I said you don't ask yourself, 'Wow, is that going to happen to me?'