Quotes About Fate

You know what I thought the first time I saw you?' 'No.' 'Point of no return.'

Well, well," he said. "This can't be a coincidence." "It could," I said. "The odds aren't high, but they do exist." "Uh-huh.

Time and tide. Love had its own circadian rhythms, and it was beginning to look like he and Max had missed their chance, that they'd slipped into a comfortable somnolence. Perhaps they would continue on indefinitely, but it was all too likely one of these days they were simply going to drift gently, quietly apart.

William Ashe doesn't believe in destiny. The word itself is actually shorthand people use when they wish to mysticize random events or externalize the results of their own willful choices.

Sometimes karma takes years to pay a person back, but that day, it had a fast backhand return...

All Things Unfold As They Should

night of limitless possibility expired, of a life forfeited, of a foreclosed

The announcement of a triple meeting could only mean that the project had been cancelled or postponed, or changed. We had ten minutes to ruminate on which was the worst fate. If canceled or postponed, our only project went away, and with it, all hope of looking busy. Looking busy was essential to our feeling vital to the agency, to mention nothing of being perceived as such by the partners, who would conclude by our labors that is was impossible to lay us off.

I don't know; I haven't heard from Uncle Stuart since the day we drove out to Brooklyn together to talk to Mirav Mendelsohn. I miss him, in a way. He meant so much more to me than I could ever mean to him. You don't get too many people like that. Roy Belisle and Bob Santacroce and Stuart Plotz- any one of them could have been something that was almost everything, if things had worked out just a little differently.

It was the 13th of the month, and 13 is my lucky number

Here, where the lonely hooting owl Sends forth his midnight moans, Fierce wolves shall o'er my carcase growl, Or buzzards pick my bones. No fellow-man shall learn my fate, Or where my ashes lie; Unless by beasts drawn round their bait, Or by the ravens' cry. Yes! I've resolved the deed to do, And this the place to do it: This heart I'll rush a dagger through Though I in hell should rue it! Often

We are only underlings of fate if we choose to let the wills of others shape our lives." -Thomas Richards

Estamos sujetos al destino solo si elegimos permitir que las voluntades de los demás den forma a nuestras vidas.

Coward. She was not! No woman who would refuse the fate her family intended for her and strike off on her own, determined to reach a far shore about which she knew almost nothing could possibly be termed a coward. Fool,then.

When the gods amused themselves at a man's expense, they had a tendency to overdue.

There are certain times where it does not matter If you hear the word yes or the word no in answer to your question, whether you turn left or right, you will reach your destination. Not many but some.

Nothing we do is inevitable, but everything we do is irreversible.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Ese imperioso deseo de comenzar de nuevo, de borrar las cartas que el destino te ha repartido, es un sentimiento engañoso y perturbador.

La vida es algo demasiado valioso como para dejarlo en manos del destino, piensa Antonia, mirando por el retrovisor cómo el agente Ruano se va haciendo cada vez más pequeño.

A person doesn't have to do anything but die.

La tragedia absoluta proclama axiomáticamente que es mejor no nacer o, en en caso que esto ya no sea posible, morir joven. El modelo <> de la condición del hombre y de la mujer considera a éstos intrusos no deseados de la creación, seres destinados a padecer sufrimientos y frustraciones inmerecidos, incomprensibles y arbitrarios

Pero todos comparten la misma falla trágica; todos tuvieron la opción de salvarse y tomaron el camino de la catástrofe; y sus novelas son dedicados estudios de ese largo error y de sus consecuencias.

Si quieres hacer reír a Dios, dile que tienes planes.»