Quotes About Fate

Believing that all has been ordained by God can lead to fatalism, but fatalism is not the same thing as belief. It's a cheat: an abdication of responsibility.

Nature, I have constantly argued in my work, is the real superpower of this godless universe. It is the ultimate disposer of human fate, randomly recarving geography over 10 000-year epochs.

American policy seems to be wed to a perpetual state of war. Why? History shows that the world will always be in flux or turmoil, with different peoples competing for visibility and power. The U.S. cannot fix the fate of every nation.

Anak malang itu hanya bisa merayap di lantai seperti ular. Ia hanya bisa mengeluarkan suara mencicit dari leher dan hidungnya, seperti tikus. Hanya itulah yang dapat dilakukannya. Sejak awal kami sudah melihat bahwa si malang yang sengsara itu, yang dilahirkan sebagai idiot, akan meninggal sebagai idiot pula.

Nada tiene arreglo: evidencia que hay que llevar con asco y resignación.

Maybe mistakes are what make our fate... without them what would shape our lives? Maybe if we had never veered off course we wouldn't fall in love, have babies, or be who we are. After all, things change, so do cities, people come into your life and they go. But it's comforting to know that the ones you love are always in your heart... and if you're very lucky, a plane ride away

The universe may not always play fair, but at least it's got a hell of a sense of humor.

Accidents are nobody's fault. They're awful and they're heartbreaking, but they're nobody's fault. They just are. They just happen and we have to live with them as best we can

Never mind,' says the old woman. 'It won't hurt for long. You'll go crazy, or they'll hang you. Easy as that, really.

Chance is unceasingly at work in our lives," Churchill would write years later, thinking back on Grenfell and the fate that might have been his, "but we cannot always see its workings sharply and clearly defined.

I stubbed my toe going to the gallows

Of course a man has to take advantage of his opportunities, but the opportunities have to come," he told an audience in Cambridge, England, in the spring of 1910. "If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not the great occasion, you don't get the great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in times of peace, no one would know his name now.

Although Churchill was quick to believe every good thing ever said about his potential, he wasn't willing to leave anything to chance.

Choices are the hinges of destiny. Edwin Markham

A single word has sometimes lost or won an empire...

Son conscientes las piezas del ajedrez de que todas sus acciones, todos sus triunfos y sus derrotas, nunca les han pertenecido?

We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.

When an inner situation is not made conscious it appears outside as fate.

We are born at a given moment, in a given place, and like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season in which we are born.

The Wrong we have Done, Thought, or Intended Will wreak its Vengeance on Our SOULS.

Finché non prenderai coscienza l'inconscio governerà la tua vita. E tu lo chiamerai destino.

Let man but accumulate sufficient engines of destruction and the devil within him will soon be unable to resist putting them to their fated use. It is well known that firearms go off of themselves if only enough of them are together.

Colui a cui il destino impone di fare la sua strada deve percorrerla armato soltanto di speranza e con gli occhi bene aperti, consapevole della sua solitudine e del pericolo che gli abissi della solitudine rappresentano.

No nation keeps its word. A nation is a big, blind worm, following what? Fate perhaps. A nation has no honor, it has no word to keep