Quotes About Fate

that there existed no earthly empire so great or overweening that it might not one day be dashed to pieces

When you're about to die, your whole life's supposed to flash before your eyes. When you fall in true love, on the other hand, what you see in the twinkling of an eye is your entire future.

Men protesteert niet tegen een zelfgekozen lot.

We will all go together when we go,All suffused with an incandescent glow.

Guns aren't just history's props and agents: they're history itself, spinning alternate futures in their chamber, hurling the present from their barrel, casting aside the empty shells of past

It's like picking the place you're going to live for the next fifty years by using a wall map, a blindfold, and what you really, truly, deeply believe is your lucky dart.' Sullenly Judith said, `I don't believe I have a lucky dart,' and her mother cast an unhappy smile her way and said, `You will, though.

You and I will meet again When we're least expecting it One day in some far off place I will recognize your face I won't say goodbye my friend For you and I will meet again

Coincidence only carries so far, and then you just have to figure that the universe wants to fuck you up as much as possible

this fails—then woe to Europe!

WHAT dark and bloody secrets the future hides from us," Alexandre Dumas would one day write in his memoir, meditating on his father's fate. "When they are revealed, men may realize that it is by the good providence of God they were kept in ignorance of them until the appointed time.

Believe it or not each and every one of us in this room is one day going to stop breathing, turn cold, and die

The fates lead her who will; who won't they drag.

The universe has always conspired to fuck me up.

Trying to change yourself is as hard as trying to change the universe. Maybe there's no difference. The fact is, shit happens none of us plan on.

We've traveled too far, and our momentum has taken over; we move idly towards eternity, without possibility of reprieve or hope of explanation

I mean, if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at twenty-two, the history of music would have been very different. As would the history of aviation, of course.

Life is a gamble, at terrible odds. If it were a bet you wouldn't take it.

If you flip a coin 1000 times, eventually it's going to roll away someplace where you can't get it.

Arithmetic arithmetock Turn the hands back on the clock How does the ocean rock the boat? How did the razor find my throat? The only strings that hold me here Are tangled up around the pier.

it seems a stray bullet actually pierced the testicle of a Union soldier and lodged itself in the ovaries of a woman standing approximately 100 ft. away. She's alright, the baby's doing fine...ofcourse the soldier's a little pissed off...

All things happen for a reason . . . even No Reason is still a reason.

Better to have the right person at the wrong time than to never had met them at all.

Heaven called . . . we're a match!

Just think, if I was born one day earlier I would have written this yesterday.