Quotes About Fate

Folks out here talk about fate, but for Kit it was a matter of stillness.

All in his life, of what has looked free or random, is discovered to have been under some control. All the time- the same as a fixed roulette wheel.

Destiny will betray you, crush your ideals, deliver you in the same detestable Bürgerlichkeit as your father, sucking at his pipe on Sunday strolls after church past the row houses by the river - dress you in the gray uniform of another family man, and without a whimper you will serve out your time, fly from pain to duty, from joy to work, from commitment to neutrality. Destiny does all this to you.

He was gazing at her ass in a kind of morose fatality.

One of those cases where you couldn't just fold. God, across the table of Fate, was picking His nose, scratching His ear, laying on tells with a prodigal hand, it had to mean something, and a faulty guess would be better than none.

Fate punishes the proud

Fate punishes the proud, and dashes hope

It's not your fault. Don't think that. It's just fate.

It was her peculiar curse to never really be unknown.

Jo vair?k dz?voju, jo cieš?k p?rliecinos, ka mums reti tiek dota iesp?ja pašiem izv?l?ties. Dz?v? kaut kas atgad?s, un tad, aiziet, r?kojies. K? nu sp?j...

No debo de estar hecha para vivir grandes historias de amor.

I was behaving, just like I promised, but fate intervened.

He put his hand in his pocket and found the porte-bonheur, still warm. He looked back at the pier. The one-eyed cat waited. All at once, Henri Beauchamp spun on his heels and stretched his arms wide to the morning sky. It didn't matter, did it, what Jack was? It only mattered that he loved him.

It doesn't come up ever, and yet it comes up always.

I've watched the seconds pat and nurse Their man; and seen him put to bed; With twenty guineas in his purse, And not an eye within his head. —J.H. Reynolds, The Fancy

Resistir ao inevitável era o mesmo que nadar contra a caudalosa corrente de um rio.

You are placed in landscape, you are placed in time. But, within that, there's a bit of room for manoeuvre. To some extent, you can be author of your own fate.

You are placed in landscape, you are placed in time. But, within that, there's a bit of room for manoeuvre. To some extent, you can be author of your own fate. At least, that's what I'd been lucky enough to learn. THE GANNETRY the whole pageantry of the year was awake tingling near the edge of the sea —W.

Ofttimes, a man brings his own destiny down upon his head.

That the stars guide us, but do not compel us. It is our free will that determines the outcome of all things. God does impose his will on us, rather he makes it known and allows us to choose if we will follow it.

True love cannot be stolen. The right mate is out there for me and will come into my life as soon as I am ready.

That's what fashion is, really. A way of renegotiating the terms that life deals you. When a woman changes her hair what she's really saying to fate is, no. I refuse to be defined by those terms.

To me, chance isn't random. The universe is bound by unseen threads. We have only to untangle them a little to see a pattern unfold.

One often meets one's fate on the road one takes to avoid it.