Quotes About Fate

Miracles are merely events that happen just when they are needed.

It was a tough break. Parry was innocent. On top of that he was a decent sort of guy who never bothered people and wanted to lead a quiet life. But there was too much on the other side and on his side of it there was practically nothing. The judge handed him a life sentence and he was taken to San Quentin.

A man, being born, is a debt; by his own self he is born to Death

Il suffisait parfois d'un petit marchandage de rien du tout pour venir à bout des grandes choses - le temps, le destin, Dieu…

Accident ruled every corner of the universe except the chambers of the human heart.

There are things in this universe that we cannot control, and then there are the things we can. . . . Let fate, coincidence, and accident conspire; human beings must act on reason.

Ishmael gave himself to the writing of it, and as he did so he understood this, too: that accident ruled every corner of the universe except the chambers of the human heart.

Losing is like knowing that, in the movie scene where a thousand die but the hero lives, you're one of the obliterated.

Events," wrote George Ball, paraphrasing Emerson "are in the saddle, and ride mankind.

They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.

Rather than simply obey political power and implore the spirits to shape your fate in positive ways, the question of wisdom arises, and the empowerment that wisdom offers: act wisely and good things happen, act unwisely and bad things happen.

America can win a war against any external foe. Consequently, it is the war at home that will ultimately decide America's fate

Stercus accidit.

The lesson taught by the war was clear: to be human is to be small, powerless, and subject to the forces of randomness.

was the only incoming they'd taken in days. How do you go about telling a guy who is alive only because he didn't use the shitter at the wrong time that he ought to go back home, go to school, get married and mortgaged, have kids, and commit to the world when he knows for a fact that nothing in this world is real except chance?

Was there any meaning to life or to war, that two men should sit together and jump within seconds of each other and yet never meet on the ground below?

If I had my life to live over again, I would find you sooner so that I could love you longer.

and that dumbass deer—sorry, that beautiful creature of God—that thing's character was drawn within the limitations of a non-sentient brain. It stood there, unmoving, as the car closed the last fifty feet on it; it just hunched there, watching Death come hurtling at it, staring at the car like, well, like exactly what it was, there's a goddamn good reason for that cliché, so maybe it was fitting that the first thing that hit the deer was the headlight.

Whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad." (Euripides)

Hilda argued that our fate is more likely determined by what she called our "unique environment"—the one we do not share with anyone, not even our siblings. It is the environment we seek out and create for ourselves, for example, when we find something which delights and fascinates us and drives us in a certain direction.

La relación entre Edward y yo fue una historia típica que, atrapada en la guerra, se volvió trágica...pero eso también es una historia típica

Sometimes I think you are doomed to happiness

disaster, a word that comes from the French des astres, or "from the stars.

The stern hand of fate has scourged us to an elevation where we can see the great everlasting things that matter for a nation; the great peaks of honour we had forgotten - duty and patriotism, clad in glittering white; the great pinnacle of sacrifice pointing like a rugged finger to heaven.