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Quotes About Fate

So long as we think of it objectively, time is Fate or Chance, the factor in our lives for which we are not responsible, and about which we can do nothing; but when we begin to think of it subjectively, we feel responsible for our time, and the notion of punctuality arises.
~ W.H. Auden
If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me.
~ William Shakespeare
You may say that things happen just by chance, but I don't feel that way.
~ Shunryu Suzuki
Every high C accurately struck demolishes the theory that we are the irresponsible puppets of fate or chance.
~ W. H. Auden
Chance is another name that we give to our mistakes. And all of the best things in my films are mistakes.
~ Robert Altman
Nothing, including human suffering, happens by chance.
~ John Calvin
The Dodo never had a chance. He seems to have been invented for the sole purpose of becoming extinct and that was all he was good for.
~ Will Cuppy
Synchronicities express themselves through chance meetings and natural events as well as in dreams and supernatural episodes.
~ Daniel Pinchbeck
Unfortunately, the way the world is constructed, a lot of people have no chance, from day one.
~ Stellan Skarsgard
If your parents didn't have any children, there's a good chance that you won't have any.
~ Clarence Day
When I behold, upon the night's starr'd face, Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance, And think that I may never live to trace Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance.
~ John Keats
Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much, or berate yourself either. Your choices are half chance. So are everybody else's.
~ Mary Schmich
All chance, direction, which thou canst not see
~ Alexander Pope
Sometimes, you get no second chance and that its best to accept the gifts the world offers you.
~ Paulo Coelho
It might have been that notion, or just chance, or its more flamboyant relative, destiny.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I moreover affirm that our wisdom itself, and wisest consultations, for the most part commit themselves to the conduct of chance.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Chance is a nickname for Providence.
~ Nicolas Chamfort
Unfortunately, we don't get a second chance. We've already played them twice.
~ Unknown
Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance, And toss them on the wheels of Chance.
~ Juvenal
The only morality in a cruel world is chance.
~ Aaron Eckhart
Well, if there's an infinite amount of chances for something to happen, then eventually it will happen - no matter how small the likelihood.
~ Alex Garland
Chance often gives us that which we should not have presumed to ask.
~ Alphonse de Lamartine
Determine on some course more than a wild exposure to each chance.
~ William Shakespeare
All a guy needed was a chance. Somebody was alway controlling who got a chance and who didn't.
~ Charles Bukowski