Quotes About Fate

prohibit omens altogether. You can best predict your future by controlling it yourself, not by trusting luck or fate to control it.

What is essential in war is victory, not prolonged operations. And therefore the general who understands war is the Minister of the people's fate and arbiter of the nation's destiny.

Quão lamentável é arriscar tudo em um único combate, negligenciando a estratégia vitoriosa, e fazer com que o destino de tuas armas dependa de uma única batalha!

A wise general is a master of fate; he holds in his hands peace or destruction of his people.

I thought about how unlikely it was I would ever meet any guy,fall in love, get married, have babies. Especially since I was going to spend the rest of my life in the cellar, where, in the not too distant future, I'd turn into a toadstool. I hoped I'd be the poisonous variety.

Nothing good happened to Romeo or Juliet.

We never know, when life reunites us with someone, how closely our stories will match.

We make our own destiny.

Maybe careers aren't something you can really plan for. They just sort of happen, like brown eyes or flat feet. I took one of those career aptitude tests last year, and it showed that I should be a flight attendant or a seamstress. Not a fashion designer or anything, mind you, but a sweatshop worker. Apparently stewardesses and sweatshop workers and I enjoy a lot of the same interests and activities.

How do any of us get out of this life alive?

Which one is really my child? The one I brought forth with my own groans who has no liking for the thing I love most in all the world, or the stranger's child whom fate placed in my life, the one who is absorbing and treasuring every word I give her, whose eyes are learning every day, whom I would love to teach...

love and loss are a part of life. You and I both know that. Chances can slip away while you're looking for guarantees.

Things happen as they are meant to happen. There is no grand plan, just flawed human beings bumbling through life.

Rourke was the Grim Reaper with a hard-on.

you wait for the perfect time to fall in love, said a little inner voice that sounded suspiciously like Lulu, it'll never happen.

If you wait for the perfect time to fall in love, said a little inner voice that sounded suspiciously like Lulu, it'll never happen.

Life as it reveals itself is filled with riches. What will happen, will happen. Worrying will not affect the outcome.

It is not heroes that make history, but history that makes heroes.

lifeless body, lying twisted and

I'm not sure whether or not any love matches are made in heaven, but some do suggest heaven had a hand in the introductions.

For you have sown the wind, and you shall reap the whirlwind

As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for

Everything comes to you at the right time

Love... doesn't happen every day. It doesn't happen at all for some people