Quotes About Fate

How strange a checker-work of Providence is the life of man!

Nature makes merit, and fortune puts it to work.

It's funny how things work out sometimes.

So the thing that bothered me most was that the condemned man had to hope the machine would work the first time.

Nature, I have constantly argued in my work, is the real superpower of this godless universe. It is the ultimate disposer of human fate, randomly recarving geography over 10,000-year epochs.

It is hard work to control the workings of inclination and turn the bent of nature; but that it may be done, I know from experience. God has given us, in a measure, the power to make our own fate.

If it's meant to be, they'll find a way to make it work eventually.

But I've got to think of myself as the luckiest guy. Robert Johnson only had one album's worth of work as his legacy. That's all that life allowed him.

Okay then. The destiny didn't work with the Chosen One. So I'll do it instead.

Destiny is what we work toward. The future doesn't exist yet. Fate is for losers!

How could two people who were so in love not end up happily ever after? It had to work. Didn't it?

There is a phrase in French, which means 'to miss.' To pass by. To not be able to stop. You love someone and someone loves you, but it just can't work for different reasons.

That is the gods' work, spinning threads of death through the lives of mortal men, an all to make a song for those to come.

The man whom fate employs to awaken love in the heart of a young girl is often unaware of his work and therefore leaves it uncompleted.

Things had a way of working out for the best when you let them run their course.

In 'The Adjustment Bureau,' Damon shows movie-star concentration as David Norris, a politician whose world ambitions hit a pothole when his angry streak becomes public.

There is no such thing in the world as luck. There never was a man who could go out in the morning and find a purse full of gold in the street to-day, and another to-morrow, and so on, day after day: He may do so once in his life; but so far as mere luck is concerned, he is as liable to lose it as to find it.

The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Here or There as strikes the Player goes.

If a planet is setting in the West at the time of our birth, its angle strikes us in such a manner as to draw us to a certain type of marriage partner, and the planets under the earth, in the North, have an effect upon our condition in the latter part of life.

Even in political considerations, now-a-days, you have stronger motives to feel interested in the fate of Europe than in the fate of the Central or Southern parts of America.

But I believe in destiny and strongly feel that certain things are meant to happen and so they will happen.

The idea of determinism combined with complete human responsibility struck me as very hard to reconcile with an idea of justice, let alone mercy.

We are merely the stars tennis-balls, struck and bandied which way please them.

Fate determines many things, no matter how we struggle.