Quotes About Fate

Fortune favors the brave," I told her. It also kills the stupid, but I decided to keep that fact to myself.

In truth, I never dreamed of being a manager. Like every other boy in Brazil who was marked by the '70 World Cup, I dreamed of wearing the yellow shirt for the national team. Unfortunately, that was not my fate. I had to undergo seven surgeries on my knee. At 27, my career was over, and I was still a young man.

I don't believe that if you do good, good things will happen. Everything is completely accidental and random. Sometimes bad things happen to very good people and sometimes good things happen to bad people. But at least if you try to do good things, then you're spending your time doing something worthwhile.

As you look back at your life, there are just a million different things that have happened, just in the right way, to allow you to make your dreams come true. And you know, someone has all that under control.

But I like not these great success of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.

Remember to be gentle with yourself and others. We are all children of chance and none can say why some fields will blossom while others lay brown beneath the August sun.

Gentle reader, the Fountain of Youth is radioactive, and those who imbibe its poisonous heavy waters will suffer the hideous fate of decaying metal. Yet almost without exception, the wretched idiot inhabitants of our benighted planet would gulp down this radioactive excrement if it were offered.

Death is inevitable, but Life - that's the tricky bit where things happen.

The fact that I fell in love with Meghan so incredibly quickly was sort of confirmation to me that all the stars were aligned; everything was just perfect. It was this beautiful woman just sort of literally tripped and fell into my life; I fell into her life.

Some of the most important determinants of life paths arise through the most trivial of circumstances.

My feeling is that you don't go looking for troubles. The cross ought to find you. And so I never go out of my way. I figure I only get involved in things that I can't get around.

I could be hit by a Sara Lee truck tomorrow. Which is not a bad way of going: 'Richard Simmons Found in a Freeway in Pound Cake and Fudge, With a Smile on His Face.' Let's face it. We don't know anything.

I think there's a right time for everything, and I'm a true believer that everything happens for a reason.

I've been in love. I believe in destiny and true love.

Had it not been for 'The Apprentice' and Donald Trump, I wouldn't have met my wife through an interview with 'E! News.'

I think I have to trust that you end up with the person you're supposed to end up with, and that everything in between is there to teach you stuff.

I'm eternally grateful to fate and the citizens of Russia that they've trusted me to be the head of the Russian government.

I'm one of those people you hate because of genetics. It's the truth.

You know what the truth is? You don't find Bill Murray. Bill Murray finds you.

A lot of it [success] is luck. That's a huge part of it that no one wants to talk about. You just got to be in the right place at the right time.

It did remind me of something out of Greek mythology - the richest king who gets everything he wants, but ultimately his family has a curse on it from the Gods.

Who wants to live forever?

Thinking that what you want equals what's best for you is a dead end.

You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense.