Quotes About Fate

Fate laughs at (wo)men's schemes.

For people like him, Hell was where you went when you died, and he saw no point in restructuring his life in hopes of avoiding that. And

He waved his hand. "I do not sell passage through the Gate," he said. "Allah guides whom he wishes to my shop, and I am content to be an instrument of his will.

Fate laughs at men's schemes.

the ray of light has to know where it will ultimately end up before it can choose the direction to begin moving

We like the idea that there's always someone responsible for any given event, because that helps us make sense of the world. We like that so much that sometimes we blame ourselves, just so that there's someone to blame. But not everything is under our control, or even anyone's control.

He hadn't been cursed or blessed in any obvious way, and he didn't know what message he was intended to receive.

he'd always assumed his destination was Hell, and he accepted that. That was the way of things, and Hell, after all, was not physically worse than the mortal plane.

In this way Hassan lived the happiest of lives until he was overtaken by death, breaker of ties and destroyer of delights.

Si nuestras vidas son cuentos que cuenta Alá, entonces somos la audiencia y los protagonistas al mismo tiempo, y es a fuerza de vivir esos cuentos como recibimos nuestras enseñanzas.

Knowledge of the future was incompatible with free will. What made it possible for me to exercise freedom of choice also made it impossible for me to know the future.

So minutes later, when Neil finally bled to death, he was truly worthy of salvation. And God sent him to Hell anyway.

Sunny and clear. Fate, here I stand, hat in hand, in my fifty-ninth year, a man of able body and a merry spirit. I'll take whatever work you have.

You work with some people, you see a spark in them and you can't help praising them. But everyone has their own destiny. No one can make anyone. Who reaches where and when, is all written.

In his first 100 days, Mr. Obama has put the fate of his presidency in the hands of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. He may come to regret that decision.

How shall I speak of Doom, and ours in special, But as of something altogether common?

Sometimes, what you do you have no control over because it's predestined. It's gonna happen in spite of you. There's nothing you can do about it.

They say you have to be good to be lucky, but I think you have to be lucky to be good.

I discovered that maybe it was fate all along, that faith was just an illusion that somehow you're in control.

Everything is chance, or nothing is chance. If I believed the first, I would be unable to live on, but I am not yet fully convinced of the second.

Most things are predestined, but some are just darn sheer luck, said Roaring Abel.

Obedience, you know, is Good Luck's mother, wedded to Salvation, they say.

In short, they were gambling on their luck, and luck is not to be coerced.

Responsibility, n. A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one's neighbor. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star.