Quotes About Fate

I'm old enough to know that sometimes you don't get a second chance.

Sometimes it amazes me how much these defining parts of our lives hinge on chance.

And how heartbreaking, because if it were all just a few degrees different, she is pretty sure they could be quite happy together.

If I'll never know how much this was my path because of fate and how much because I willed it, the question is less important than that I made it across. Now other women know they, too, can make it, and not because I or anyone else tells them. They know because they've seen it happen.

I will not be the one it happens to - this is what we all believe, what we must believe to make our way in the world each day. Someone else. Not me. But every once in a while it is you, or someone close enough that it might as well be you. People to whom a terrible thing has never happened trust fate, the notion that what's meant to be will be; the rest of us know better.

People to whom a terrible thing has never happened trust fate, the notion that what's meant to be, will be. The rest of us know better.

Whom the Gods wish to destroy, they first call promising.

A rune for the very bored: when very bored say to yourself: It was during the next twenty minutes that there occurred one of those tiny incidents which revolutionizes the whole course of our life and alter the face of history. Truly we are the playthings of enormous fates.

Then a learning jumps to mind, that once you plan to do something, and figure how long it'll take, that's exactly how long Fate gives you before the next thing comes along to do.

If I were the moon, I know where I would fall down.

It is not who begets us, that matters, but where fate places us.

Birkin came with Hermione. She had a rapt, triumphant look, like the fallen angels restored, yet still subtly demoniacal, now she held Birkin by the arm. And he was expressionless, neutralised, possessed by her as if it were his fate, without question.

Always these arrangements! Always one's life arranged for one! Wheels that worked one and drove one, and over which one had no real control!

Better a thousand times take one's chance with death, than accept a life one did not want.

Give me the child of any healthy, normally intelligent man, and I will make a perfectly competent Chatterley of him. It is not who begets us, that matters, but where fate places us. Place any child among the ruling classes, and he will grow up, to his own extent, a ruler. Put kings' and dukes' children among the masses, and they'll be little plebeians, mass products. It is the overwhelming pressure of environment.

Moby Dick, the Great White Whale, tore off Ahab's leg at the knee, when Ahab was attacking him. Quite right, too. Should have torn off both his legs, and a lot more besides.

Well, there it was: fated like the rest of things! It was rather awful, but why kick?

Because this is the way things are meant to be.(Press Tilton)

Destiny is not a matter of chance. It is a matter of choice.

Hay una divinidad que forja nuestros fines, por mucho que queramos alterarlos.

a life we didn't choose, chose us

This was what could happen to you: you could end up this far from where you were going

A life I didn't choose chose me.

Il destino mischia le carte, ma siamo noi a giocare la partita. Destiny shuffles the cards, but we are the ones who must play the game.