Quotes About Fate

It's in the tilting and thrashing that we wangle our luck.

I wondered if anything would have turned out differently had a careless nurse switched the two of us in a hospital nursery, whether his family would be significantly changed, whether mine would have been, whether any of us Koreans, raised as we were, would sense the barest tinge of a loss or estrangement.

That is what we are. Death.

But the true voyagers are only those who leave Just to be leaving; hearts light, like balloons, They never turn aside from their fatality And without knowing why they always say: Let's go!

Nothing is as tedious as the limping days, When snowdrifts yearly cover all the ways, And ennui, sour fruit of incurious gloom, Assumes control of fate's immortal loom

If Europe does not return to the path of common sense, it will find itself laid low in a battle for its fate.

This directing thing just sort of fell my way and landed in my lap.

When karma lands, it lands hard.

We all got lucky doing Boy Meets World.

If I were to do a drama again, I would really like to work on a fatal melodrama, like a love that can't be.

I have the mentality that sometimes a role is just meant for someone else. If you're supposed to get a part, the light will shine on you. And if not, nothing you do is going to help.

I'm scared of having a messy end, but not dying itself. It's inevitable.

I found my prince - he's a hockey player and we met at an NHL event, the last place I'd ever expect to meet someone, but there he was.

Only God knows why I didn't make it with the Mets, but yes, in a short period of time, I got the opportunity with the Phillies.

I haven't had a chance to pick where I wanted to play since 2007 when I chose to go to Michigan State.

You could never plan your life in a million years.

The minute you start to strategize too much, the more you start to think you're in control of your own fate. And you're not, really.

The clause that grants all "persons" equal protection under the law, in context, seems to apply pretty clearly only to human beings "born or naturalized" in the United States of America. But fate and time and the conspiracies of great wealth and power often have a way of turning common sense and logic on its head

Children are begotten by their parents out of sheer malice and dragged into the world out of the greatest imaginable inconsiderateness.

Sie brauchen in der Welt nach nichts streben , weil Sie werden eh hineingestoßen. Streben ist immer Blödsinn gewesen. Ein Streber ist ja was Grauenhaftes. Die Welt hat ja einen Sog. Der reißt Sie mit, da brauchen Sie nicht streben, Wenn sie streben, werden Sie eben ein Streber.

Man is a wretched creature and death is a certainty - Thomas Bernhard

Los seres humanos que mueren sin haber conocido su enfermedad, sus enfermedades mortales...

How we moved from our different points of departure, our positions, toward one single point, the single acceptable point, death.

It is we that are blind, not Fortune: because our eye is too dim to discover the mystery of her effects, we foolishly paint her blind, and hoodwink the providence of the Almighty.