Quotes About Fate

If I thought that any of this was pre ordained, then it takes away any kind of incentive to struggle, or to put up with things, to reach for those impossible dreams, all those dramatic things.

It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.

You are only as great as the opportunities that are given to you.

Opportunity knocks only once. You never know if you'll get another opportunity.

Opportunity knocks, but doesn't always answer to its name.

History can bring luck: this is what we can call optimism.

I'm completely optimistic - I know the end is coming!

We are pretty firm believers in the fact that you make your own fate, with or without the Facebook ordeal.

There is an ancient legend which warns that, should we ever learn our true origin, our universe will instantly be destroyed.

New Orleans is still the place where you find out that you have a doppelganger and feel lucky - but somehow unsurprised - to learn that his name is Mad Bottom.

Often, I dream about work. For instance, the night before the Oscars, I dreamt about the Oscars and I dreamt about who I wanted to interview. Interestingly, one of the people I really wanted to interview was Keanu Reeves, and then we got him. We had never interviewed him before, so that was lucky. Or maybe it was fate - I don't know.

Chance determines our lives in important ways.

I think people feel like there are all these things in our lives that we don't really have control over.

What is our destiny? Does it matter? Is it bound up with 'our' planet? In my opinion, yes.

No one is to blame. It is neither their fault nor ours. It is the misfortune of being born when a whole world is dying.

We often learn the hard way that our world is ruled by external factors. We don't always get what is rightfully ours, even if we've earned it.

I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.

And what makes Bob Dylan stories interesting is that the only person who can decide their outcome is Bob Dylan, so you never know how they're going to go.

No one can outrun death. It will catch up to all of us eventually.

When he entered the Oval Office - by fate, not by design - Citizen Ford knew that he was not perfect, just as he knew he was not perfect when he left. But what president ever was?

My philosophy on love is that if it is The One, whatever the circumstances are, you'll figure it out. There's nothing too difficult to overcome.

I'm not overconfident. It's just that I'm not caught up in that. What will be will be. The die is cast. I can't be anybody but me.

That's what Jesse had never understood: she didn't even want to. She'd known, too, for the first time, that her mother had been lucky to die in childbirth, still one with the baby dying within her.

three weeks later she was breech-birth dead. Dixie Clay confided in her father that she'd caused them, these deaths her punishment, but her father was emphatic, one hand on each of her cheeks, No, no. It had nothing to do with her. And he made her promise not to think that the world organized itself to spite her or reward her,