Quotes About Fate

From the time you were signed at MGM you just felt you were in God's hands.

There would have been no Barcelona, and a lot of other things besides, for me if I hadn't signed for Celtic.

Everything has come to me without my having to look for it. I signed with Metro because someone thought I had talent, and it was the same thing with the ballet.

My signing of Derrick Rose was like anything in life, I think it was just luck. I played in Chicago. Derrick is from Chicago.

If I believed in fate I'd be very curious why I picked the name Silver Jews.

Fate and history have a similar feeling. They are weird mirrors to each other.

If you look at it, 'The Lion King' is very similar to 'Hamlet.'

There never was a moment, and never will be, when we are without the power to alter our destiny.

Miraculously, cancers go into remission. People recover. Is it possible, Tom Laughlin asks, that the disease itself evolved as a consequence of actions taken (or not taken) in our lives? Could our unlived lives have exacted their vengeance upon us in the form of cancer? And if they did, can we cure ourselves, now, by living these lives out?

The good alone die young.

To labor in the arts for any reason other than love is prostitution. Recall the fate of Odysseus' men who slew the cattle of the sun. Their

Some people die accidentally. It's a fact.

we understood the consequences of any given action, we could exercise discretion, thus restructuring our fate.

Everything happens for a reason but that doesn't mean there is a point.

He was sitting with his feet up on the desk, his face oily-looking under the fluorescent lights. He must have been in his late thirties, but he wasn't aging well. Some combination of temper and discontent had etched lines near his mouth and spoiled the clear brown of his eyes, leaving an impression of a man beleaguered by the Fates. His

Era una suerte que la muerte no le hubiese arrebatado la sabiduría del anciano.

My aspiration to become a jurist had been laid to rest in the Graveyard of Failed Hopes, an all-female establishment. The sorrow of it had faded, but regret remained, and I'd taken to wondering if the Fates might be kinder to a different girl.

She was braver than I, she always had been. I cared too much for the opinion of others, she cared not a whit. I was cautious, she was brash. I was a thinker, she was a doer. I kindled fires, she spread them. And right then and ever after, I saw how cunning the Fates had been. Nina was one wing, I was the other.

oldest brother, Haran, is on the Jewish council in Alexandria and he struck a deal with the Romans to allow the council to determine my fate. They sent me away to the Therapeutae." "Therapeutae?" I repeated, feeling how thick the word was on my tongue. "What is it?" "It's a community of Jews. Philosophers, mostly. Like me, like you, they come from educated and affluent families with servants

I remember thinking: We've come to the split in the river. I felt, whether or not it was true, that my life would be decided now. It would rush one way or go the other.

I remember thinking: We've come to the split in the river. I felt, whether or not it was true, that my life would be decided now. It would rush one way or go the other.

She bent and put her arms around me. "Sarah darling, you've fought harder than I imagined, but you must give yourself over to your duty and your fate and make whatever happiness you can."O

God willing. How strangely that strikes me now.

She had been meant to die, yet she'd cut her way out of that fate and back to the world she loved.