Quotes About Fate

You feel that there is an avalanche coming when you meet the right person.

My mother met my father at a Roy Acuff concert.

What wouldn't have happened to me if I hadn't ended up in Hartford, Connecticut.

Consequences are unpitying.

To bare our souls is all we ask, to give all we have to life and the beings surrounding us. Here the nature spirits are intense and we appreciate them, make offerings to them - these nature spirits who call us here - sealing our fate with each other, celebrating our love.

I just absolutely needed the theatre so desperately - it was my fate; it was where I was running towards. It was the place where I found peace and survival and all kinds of things.

Good people never survive on 'Game of Thrones.' That's the problem.

I don't know why I survived Iraq and I don't know why I made it home, but I do know that this is my second chance at life and I can do whatever I want now.

The soldiers that didn't come back were the heroes. It's a roll of the dice. If a bullet has your name on it, you're a hero. If you hear a bullet go by, you're a survivor.

The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late.

There is a great suspicion of saying that anyone, especially a child, is 'the product of destiny,' or 'formed by fate,' or 'predestined for a certain life.' I am suspicious, too, of efforts to cage children or adults in preconceived ideas of who they are or should be.

I hold that there is a mysterious connection between the fate of this country and that of Mexico; so much so that her independence and capability of sustaining herself are almost as essential to our prosperity and the maintenance of our institutions as they are to hers.

That's football. Sometimes luck swings your way and sometimes it doesn't.

The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.

I believe samurai in the Edo period and modern hip-hop artists have something in common. Rappers open the way to their future with one microphone; samurai decided their fate with one sword.

we are all the sons of choices

There is always a cause, but not always a because. And even when there is, the dead are beyond its reach or caring.

Men make their own history; but they make it under given conditions, and they become entangled thereby in a fate which is in part the result of other men having made their own history earlier.

Looking backward always presents an overdetermined depiction of fate; by this perspective we leave out of focus the possibilities of action which existed at the time.

Zufälle, das Geheimnisvolle, das jeweils Unmögliche bestimmten mein Dasein, ja mein ganzes Leben.

Mais rien, personne, ne peut empêcher la multitude de se ruer vers sa fatalité.

Vous allez encore mourir ! cette fois, vos sales inventions ne pourront rien pour vous. Et vous serez damné !

Impose ta chance, serre ton bonheur et va vers ton risque. À te regarder, ils s'habitueront.

A few beings are neither in society nor in a state of dreaming. They belong to an isolated fate, to an unknown hope. Their open acts seem anterior to time's first inculpation and to the skies' unconcern. It occurs to no one to employ them. The future melts before their gaze. They are the noblest and the most disquieting.