Quotes About Fate

When George first told me about the title, I wasn't so sure he was serious," Burtt says. "It seemed like such an extreme-sounding pulp title. But that's what we were making: a big version of those old serials, with names like 'Fate Takes the Wheel' or 'The Crimson Ghost Strikes Out.' 

I believe that Icarus was not failing as he fell, but just coming to the end of his triumph.

What's in store for me in the direction I don't take?

No matter what you do it's bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might as well go mad.

and nobody knows what's going to happen to anybody besides the forlorn rags of growing old

I fear mostly my inability to capture all the things that come, I fear their mysterious source, I fear their fate, I fear me, in short. This is true…it's like finding a river of gold when you haven't even got a cup to save a cupful…you've but a thimble, and that thimble is your pathetic brain and labour and humanness.

Alzo gli occhi, ecco lì le stelle, sempre le stesse, desolazione, e sotto gli angeli che non sanno di essere angeli. E Sarina morirà. Ed io morirò, e voi morirete, e tutti moriremo e persino le stelle si spegneranno una dopo l'altra con l'andar del tempo

It made me think that everything was about to arrive—the moment when you know all and everything is decided forever.

her mind is bent on something else—she's after me; she won't understand how much I love her, she's knitting my doom.

He seems to me to be headed for his ideal fate, which is compulsive psychosis dashed with a jigger of psychopathic irresponsibility and violence.

Someone once said to me that if you want to make God laugh, just tell him your plans. Just tell him who you are.

He was a man without a past, whose future was the imminent grave and whose present was a bitter fever of living.

woe of unnumbered generations

In a flash Buck knew it. The time had come. It was to the death.

Among identical twins who have the exact same genes, one may die early of a heart attack and the other may live a long, healthy life - depending on their lifestyle and what they eat.

By a twist of fate rather than anything approaching journalistic enterprise, I did the last major interview with Johnny Carson.

By some crazy twist of fate I was able to remember the moments leading up to the bombings, and in the end, it helped people. I'm not a hero; I did what any normal person would do.

In the many-mansioned house of Alternate History, I occupy a small corner. The trio of what-ifs I chronicled in 'Then Everything Changed' all begin with tiny, highly plausible twists of fate that lead to hugely consequential shifts in history.

But for a few twists of fate, the gasoline engine we know today might have just been a small footnote in history.

Everything happens for a reason. I'm grateful for the twists and the turns, as painful as they've been.

Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out til too late that he's been playing with two queens all along.

She didn't hide her relationship with Albert Finney. I can't imagine two people who were better suited, but thank God it didn't work out, or she and I would never have met.

I'm not one of those New Age types that believe 'it's all meant to be' and that our lives have been scripted by an invisible hand.

Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions.