Quotes About Fate

The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.

How much in life is determined, and how much is due to chance?

It is perfectly obvious that the whole world is going to hell. The only possible chance that it might not is that we do not attempt to prevent it from doing so.

The chances of you winning are the same as the chances of HELL freezing over.

A throw of the dice will never abolish chance.

We're deciding the fate of the multiverse with a flip of a coin. Heads or tails, doc. If that isn't a game, I don't know what is.

Let us do something, while we have the chance! ... Let us make the most of it, before it is too late! Let us represent worthily for one the foul brood to which a cruel fate consigned us!

Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.

Make chance essential.

God casts the die, not the dice.

You think we stand a chance? (Delphine) Like an icicle on the equator. (Phobos)

Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.

Relationships are never chance events.

People destined to meet will do so, apparently by chance, at precisely the right moment.

With great care we might have a dog's chance, but no more.

Tomorrow is not a promise, but a chance.

You are you, and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, it's beautiful. If not, it can't be helped.

Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day out, is mute. Only chance can speak to us.

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

I read somewhere about a family who had only one son. They were very poor. This son was extremely precious to them, and the only thing that mattered to his family was that he bring them some financial support and prestige. Then he was thrown from a horse and crippled. It seemed like the end of their lives. Two weeks after that, the army came into the village and took away all the healthy, strong men to fight in the war, and this young man was allowed to stay behind and take care of his family.

Luck has its rules, if you can understand them, and then it is scarcely luck.

Sandra stood by, quietly amused: she wore a sugar pink track suit with matching plastic hairslides in the shape of elephants. Edward could see quite clearly behind her shoulder, like the aura visible to spiritualists, the woman she would be in thirty years time. There is probably nothing to be done about people, he thought, nothing at all, nor ever has been: processed, from the cradle to the grave. Most neither know nor care, which makes it worse.

Todos os seres vivos merecem o aceno de uma esperança, mesmo se estão inevitavelmente condenados à morte.

Statesmen may plot and plan. Learned men may calculate and conclude. Diplomats may debate and prevaricate. But chance rules the immediate affairs of humankind.