Quotes About Fate

Personal violence did not come naturally to Eliot; in fact he had found it distasteful. What could he say, he was a sensitive individual, fate had blessed and cursed him with a tender heart.

Sometimes I think I am fate's sword. She wields me cruelly.

I hadn't chosen my gift, and I hadn't chosen Alonzo either, but here we were. There was so much you didn't get to choose. The hard way was going to be very hard. It would be a long, long time before I felt safe and warm again.

Fate is coming whatever you do, so quit wriggling around, it's only making you look more ridiculous than you already do.

Quentin did not consider himself a great interpreter of signs and wonders, but the lesson of the golden key seemed pretty clear to him. It was this: you've already won the game, so quit playing. Remain where you are, in your castle, and you will be safe. No further action on your part is required.

He did not want to be original; he made superhuman efforts to be like everybody else: but there is no escaping one's destiny.

If you turn to the right, you will marry, if to the left, you will be killed." A true philosopher never chooses the middle course; he needs no riches, he does not know what to do with money. But whether he turns to the right or to the left, nothing pleasant awaits him.

There can be no arguing with Dickens's wish to show the spiritual advantages of love. But there was no need to make the object of his lesson an entrepreneur whose ideas and practices benefit his employees, society at large, and himself. Must such a man expect no fairer a fate than to die scorned and alone? Bah, I say. Humbug.

One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune.

Despite the elimination of subjectivity from the mechanical world picture, the desire for perfection, the need to defy and circumvent fate, the impulse to transcendence, can be observed in technology, too, along with other manifestations common to religion, like the readiness to accept sacrifice and premature death.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

Death comes for us all. Even for kings he comes.

I never used to believe in fate. I used to think you make your own life, and then you call it fate.

My mum used to always say to me, 'What's meant for you won't pass you by,' and it's true. If I didn't get something, it wasn't meant for me.

If our minds were originally formed by nature in a sound and useful manner, then they pass on all the forces of fate, which imposes on us from outside in a relatively unobjectionable and more acceptable way.

As an actor, I feel my job is to perform with utmost honesty and then it is just the film's fate. Of course, you want as many people as possible to watch your film, but there are too many factors and circumstances that come in between.

'O Brother, Where Art Thou?' was this role that utterly fell into my lap and changed my life.

My literary career was a fluke. Utterly unexpected.

I don't believe things happen in vain. I believe they happen for a reason.

The valiant never taste of death but once.

Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.

a society's fate lies in its own hands and depends substantially on its own choices.

Hence geographic variation in whether, or when, the peoples of different continents became farmers and herders explains to a large extent their subsequent contrasting fates.

Maybe I'd see how you could be so certain that we had no chance...at all.