Quotes About Fate

Fate offers sweet melons to some, sour melons to others,

The Crimson King speaks. As a direct result, somewhere a slumbering, dreaming infant shudders in its sleep, and dies.

Funny how different life could be, so many things that make you take one route instead of another. If only we could live them all.

As researchers and experimenters, scholars and theorists, German academics — good bourgeois virtually all of them — made signal contributions to human mastery. But as citizens they failed to claim mastery over their own fate. The way they chose to confine their lives to their professional advancement was a kind of division of labor — scholarship to the scholar, politics to the politician. But it was also a fateful division of power.

read, and his last book was Balzac's mysterious tale of the magical shrinking skin, La Peau de chagrin.

Or on the whim of a deity. As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods.

To Plato, God was a mathematician. To Kepler, too, and to Biehl and Fredhoj. I do not believe it was a coincidence that their main subjects were biology and mathematics. A purpose behind them, the purpose that steered both them and the school, had caused them to align their own fates as closely as possible with God.

Kõik algab ja lõpeb inimesega, kes katuselt alla kukub. Kuid vahepeal on nüüd terve rida seoseid, milles võibolla iialgi selgust ei saa.

Cilv?kiem, kuriem ir iekš?jie resursi, pareizie notikumi iest?jas. Tie izskat?s p?c nejauš?b?m. Bet tie rodas aiz nepieciešam?bas.

Maybe a person can be born to the wrong people," he said. "Maybe a person should have been put somewhere else.

It's these small differences in people's karma that determine if we get up or remain lying on the ground.

Do you think that people determine their own lives, Smilla?" "The details," I say, "but the big things happen on their own.

Yeah, some days you die.

All the choices we can't see. Every moment.

I just hope I die naturally before somebody breaks into my house and beats me to death for whatever I happen to have in my wallet, it's just a race between the one and the other for me.

In ten years they would be dead, deported or in leadership positions.

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If in doubt, always attempt to force the hand of chance.

Living doesn't do you any good,' he replied. 'It kills us all.

You can explain coincidence to me in mathematics all you like, but it won't kill the magic or the mystery.

Now Josephís brothers saw him in the distance, and before he arrived, they plotted to kill him.

“Here comes that dreamer!” they said to one another.

“Come now, let us kill him and throw him into one of the pits. We can say that a vicious animal has devoured him. Then we shall see what becomes of his dreams!”

Some time later, the kingís cupbearer and baker offended their master, the king of Egypt.