Quotes About Fate

If you do, you'll be running an incalculable risk. It will be up to you whether the world begins to live again or stands still forever and a day. Are you really prepared to take that risk?

Lo que había esperado resultaba ser su perdición y lo que había odiado su salvación.

Tutto ciò che accade tu lo scrivi disse. Tutto ciò che io scrive, accade fu la risposta.

Na verdade é terrível - disse e escreveu o Velho. - Isso significa o final sem final. Vamos entrar no círculo do Eterno Retorno. E dele ninguém pode fugir.

Forse lo specchio porterà la mia immagine al principe. Forse può capitare che guardi in alto quando lo specchio sorvola il suo cielo, e allora vedrà la mia immagine. Forse seguirà lo specchio nel suo cammino e mi troverà qui.

Dar dincolo de noi mai este O È›ar? ce nu-i din poveste. E alt? lume, alt? È›ar?, Ce pân?-n z?ri se desf??oar?. S?-i spunem: lumea de afar?. Iar cei ce locuiesc în ea P?ziÈ›i sunt de o alt? stea (...) ConduÈ™i de-o soart? mai fericire De când e cunoscut p?mântul Sunt fraÈ›i de sânge cu cuvântul.

Once my song is ended, What comes to others soon or late, When their bodies pass away, Will also be my fate. My life will last the time of my song, But that will not be long.

Two thousand million people in the world, and the one who has to decide their fate is is the only one who's always hidden from me.

The world's not just a stage. It's a casino, and our lives are games of chance. And when people calculate the odds in any life situation, they are often making judgments about similarity—or (strange new word!) representativeness. You

If it doesn't happen, it never was going to happen. If you never did it, it wasn't there to begin with.

This conceit went hand in glove with the investment bankers' belief that they could control their destiny, which, as we shall see, they couldn't.

Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising. —Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise

Crucial decisions are made, today as thousands of years ago, in terms of the intuitive guesses and preferences of a few men in positions of authority...[it is] quite likely that the fate of entire societies may be sealed by a series of avoidable mistakes committed by their leaders.

Or how his soldiers, even in combat, refused to wear their helmets, claiming that the weather was too hot for them and "if a bullet is going to kill me, it has my name on it anyway." (To which Amos said, "What about all those bullets addressed 'To Whom It May Concern'?")

El hombre es un artefacto determinista metido en un universo probabilístico

quite likely that the fate of entire societies may be sealed by a series of avoidable mistakes committed by their leaders.

The book, truth be told, left the reader feeling that there was little that might have been done to prevent all those people from dying.

I was a circumstance, Hannah, that's all. Good or bad - and I assure you that I remain extremely and appallingly bad - there are many angels because there were once many gods, pushing, pulling, hiding, guiding. Once we get through the fog and find a place that feels comfortable we look back and call their influence fate, and the destination our destiny. That's all.

We all end up dying in the end. It's just a question of how and when.

Death is the promise we're all born with, sir. A good death is better than a poor one.

If we are the toys of the gods are not perhaps the gods themselves mere children?

Best believe our fates are our own, even if the evidence denies it.

Now Elric was caught up in a kind of intradimensional hurricane, in which a thousand reverses ocurred within his brain at once and he became a thousand other creatures for an instant, and where he lived through more than ten other lives; a fate only minimally different from the one that was familiar to him; and so vast did the multiverse become, so unthinkable, that he began to go mad as he attempted to make sense of just a fraction of what laid siege to his sanity.

And upon those three lies was Elric's destiny to be built, for it is only about things which concern us most profoundly that we lie clearly and with profound conviction.