Quotes About Fate

probability is the very guide of life

Così, dall'ansia di perdere certe gioie appena gustate, dall'innata avarizia, dall'oscuro disprezzo per i propri simili, prontamente cogliendo l'occasione che la sorte gli offriva, con grave ma lucido azzardo, Giuseppe Vella si fece protagonista della grande impostura.

Ad un certo punto della vita non è la speranza l'ultima a morire, ma il morire è l'ultima speranza.

Whatever else may divide us, Europe is our common home; a common fate has linked us through the centuries, and it continues to link us today.

Quella vita ch'è una cosa bella, non è la vita che si conosce, ma quella che non si conosce; non la vita passata, ma la futura. Coll'anno nuovo, il caso incomincerà a trattar bene voi e me e tutti gli altri, e si principierà la vita felice. Non è vero?

God gave us the power to imagine the future but gave us no power to control it.

Time is like this boat that you are on. You can't see who is steering it, but it is taking you to weird unknown and sometimes awful or terrifying places.

Man journeys in darkness, and his destiny journeys toward him," he said, and traveled on.

If you believe in Omens, the fact that Muhammad was born an orphan is not a good one.

It was strange to realize that this was it, and it had happened to him at last, as it had always been destined to happen someday, and in an instant he was going to cheat to the back of the book for the answer to the greatest mystery of all.

And it is also the story of Norman Kent, who was his friend, and how at one moment in that adventure he held the fate of two nations, if not of all Europe, in his hands; how he accounted for that stewardship; and how, one quiet summer evening, in a house by the Thames, with no melodrama and no heroics, he fought and died for an idea.

Having the rug pulled from under one, and flying magic carpets -- cousin events?

All things come alike to all; there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not.

Extremely unlikely events occur every moment and it is not a priori unthinkable that the evolution of life should be due to mere chance than that a particular order in a pack of cards should result from mechanical shuffling.

Muitas coisas se resolverão neste encontro, ou nenhuma.

I will look on the stars and look on thee, and read the page of thy destiny.

The life I should be living had been mislaid through some clerical error by the cosmic bureaucracy.

Funny how life had its little ways of surprising you. Little quirks of fate.

You're saying the gods don't have free will." "The power to make mistakes," Penny said. "Only we have that. Mortals.

This isn't how it ends!" Quentin said. "I am the hero of this goddamned story, Ember! Remember? And the hero gets the reward!" "No, Quentin," the ram said. "The hero pays the price.

Maybe this was the only way it could have gone. You didn't get the quest you wanted, you got the one you could do. That was the hard part, accepting that you didn't get to choose which way you went.

and the rest of his life lay in front of him like a barren, meaningless postscript.

Maybe this was the only way it could have gone. You didn't get the quest you wanted, you got the one you could do.

Sometimes I think I am fate's sword. She wields me cruelly." Quentin wondered what it was like to be so unselfconsciously melodramatic. Nice, probably. "Right.