Quotes About Fate

Damn! Why do those yellow-bellied fates always gang up on the elderly?

If it weren't for Phoenician blinds, it'd be curtains for all of us.

Misquoted, distorted, diluted, and deified. In that order. At the hands of his worshipers, Jesus suffered a far worse fate than crucifixion. You have a lovely ass.

If you lack the iron and the fuzz to take control of your own life, if you insist on leaving your fate to the gods, then the gods will repay your weakness by having a grin or two at your expense. Should you fail to pilot your own ship, don't be surprised at what inappropriate port you find yourself docked.

Rosencrantz: Shouldn't we be doing something--constructive? Guildenstern: What did you have in mind? ... A short, blunt human pyramid...?

The unpredictable and the predetermined unfold together to make everything the way it is.

The bad end unhappily; the good, unluckily. That is what tragedy means.

The universe is deterministic all right, just like Newton said, I mean it's trying to be, but the only thing going wrong is people fancying people who aren't supposed to be in that part of the plan.

the natural condition is one of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster. strangely enough it all works out in the end... it's a mystery.

Traitors hoist by their own petard?--or victims of the gods?--we shall never know!

If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation.

Free to move, speak, extemporize, and yet. We have not been cut loose. Our truancy is defined by one fixed star, and our drift represents merely a slight change of angle to it: we may seize the moment, toss it around while the moments pass, a short dash here, an exploration there, but we are brought round full circle to face again the single immutable fact --

all mystical experience is coincidence; and vice versa, of course.

People who die bad don't stay in the ground.

Well, if a man don't HAVE a chance, then he has to TAKE a chance!

They did not believe death was accidental—life might be, but death was deliberate.

You know as well as I do that people who die bad don't stay in the ground.

If ever there came a morning when mercy and simple good fortune took to their heels and fled, grace alone might have to do.

No creían que la muerte fuese un accidente: la vida tal vez lo fuera, pero la muerte era deliberada.

Death is a sure thing but life is just as certain. Problem is you can't know in advance.

i've come to deliver some bad luck -train heartnet

Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.

one of my favorites: Robby gave her a skeptical look. "Ye're an angel of death. No offense, but I would call that a wee bit of harm." "We're called Deliverers, actually. And we're not supposed to take someone before their time." "How does that work?" Gregori lifted his camera, focusing on her. "I mean do you just go down a line, saying, 'Eenie meenie mynie moe, sorry, dude you gotta go'?

It's an Irish story, love, Mrs. Wylltson said. We don't do happy endings.