Quotes About Fate

Your network is your destiny, a reality backed up by many studies in the newly emergent fields of social networking and social contagion theory. We are the people we interact with.

This, I feel, is the advantage to creating art at this point in time: When we realize that we are temporary, we are facing our self-destruction, we are realizing our fate and we must confront it. Art is the only sensible primal response to an outlook of possible destruction (obliteration).

You know, life's a funny thing. Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.

Death was like that, casual with its cruelty.

The very night that the trajectory of my life had been set — I was an executioner's son, and so would be an executioner — was also the night my world became unmoored.

When a man was found dead at the well in 1630 after having made scoffing remarks about its supposed powers a local jury brought in a verdict of death by divine judgement.74

It being a certain truth that those who who are born to be hanged will never be drowned.

The indomitable Cox may have been the only member of the crew to remain calm—"it being a certain truth that those who are born to be hang'd shall never be drown'd," as he explained.

To kill was to be doomed. To kill was to die, yourself.

Liberty clutched him tightly. 'You played a part in my destiny. And maybe I played a part in yours.' That was how things worked, she was beginning to realize. Destiny wasn't something you accomplished by yourself.

The steps a man takes from the day of his birth until that of his death trace in time an inconceivable figure.

No one gets out of here alive.

You never know your luck till the wheel stops.

Sometimes there's just no justice. The bad guys do live, if not happily ever after, then certainly conspicuously.

All in all, a boy with more than the average share of problems, probably destined to end up no different than his father, or in jail, or in some other kind of trouble. The first time a cop crossed him, or a bookie demanded his money, or he was bounced from a job, would be the beginning of the end. There were kids like him in gutters and jail cells all around the country.

Even the most minor inconvenience, Chrysippus suggested, had been carefully designed by God for our benefit.

Ja sam apsolutno konzervativna..Mislim da nam je Allah pri rodjenju odredio mjesto i ulogu u svijetu i da je svaki pokušaj da se dovede u pitanje božanski plan osudjen na poraz. ..Bog je pravedan, padaju samo truli plodovi.

Destiny is the music of the improbable. Were it otherwise, almost anyone could exist.

The best laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft a-gley; And leave us naught but grief and pain For promised joy.

Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met -- or never parted, We had ne'er been broken-hearted.

I presume that it is the better part of wisdom that we bow to our fate with as good grace as possible.

Fate will unwind as it must!

Ode I.11 Leucon, no one's allowed to know his fate, Not you, not me: don't ask, don't hunt for answers In tea leaves or palms. Be patient with whatever comes. This could be our last winter, it could be many More, pounding the Tuscan Sea on these rocks: Do what you must, be wise, cut your vines And forget about hope. Time goes running, even As we talk. Take the present, the future's no one's affair

PLATO A CAUTIONARY TALE He lost his gold, And he, finding the first man's gold, Lost his belt, And then he who lost his gold Found the other man's belt And hanged himself.