Quotes About Fate

Arguably the most substantive domestic issue facing the republic is the fate of Social Security, with privatization the most frequently mentioned option. For the first time in history, a familiarity with the behavior of the financial markets has become a prerequisite for competent citizenship, apart from its obvious pecuniary value. Using

We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never so little scar…. Nothing we ever do is, in strict scientific literalness, wiped out.

Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

Nation after nation, when at the zenith of its power, has proclaimed itself invincible because its army could shake the earth with its tread and its ships could fill the seas, but these nations are dead, and we must build upon a different foundation if we would avoid their fate.

Destiny is not a matter of chance but a matter of choice; It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved

RockChristopher: Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice.

Destiny is not a matter of chance, but of choice. Not something to wish for, but to attain

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, but a thing to be achieved.

All the pirates, and Lord Pitch's mercy, were dead in less time than it takes to sing a song.

What comes, comes, why bark?

Since I first entered this world, what awaits has always been before me. If I turn this way or that, it is still there, waiting, more patient than any human being.

All that might have been good in my life had been destroyed by the Tornado God.

A wise man. He told me once every falling leaf comes to rest where it was always meant to.

Life is a blessing and death a deliverance. Both are gifts, and neither is in our hands.

Life's two Great Questions Why me and What do I do now

But Ben Rifkin lay in a refrigerated drawer in the M.E.'s office while my son lay in his warm bed, with nothing but luck to separate the one from the other.

Be careful what you yearn for, because that which you desire most will either complete you or destroy you, and you don't get to choose.

Life is unbearably perverse; that which we most seek to avoid always becomes unavoidable.

The great moments of life are but moments like the others. Your doom is spoken in a word or two. A single look from the eyes, a mere pressure of the hand, may decide it; or of the lips, though they cannot speak.

A person can't help their birth.

It was in the reign of George II. that the above-named personages lived and quarrelled ; good or bad, handsome or ugly, rich or poor, they are all equal now

If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow.

People don't ever seem to relate that doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.

Doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.