Quotes tagged ‘Fate’

“Why do we decide for one thing and against another? But does it matter whether the decision is based upon the consequence of a series of causal links? Or that instead it stems from an undefined feeling inside me? Perhaps everything in my life boils down to this one moment. That I’m part of this puzz…”

— Jantje Friese, Ronny Schalk, H.G. Tannhaus, Christian Steyer, imdb.com

“Do you ever wonder what it would have been like if we were born into a different family?”

— Jonathan Lisco, David Michod, Craig Cody, Ben Robson, imdb.com

“A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.”

— Frederick Douglass, amazon.com

“All kinds of things are happening to me. Some I chose, some I didn't. I don't know how to tell one from the other anymore. What I mean is, it feels like everything's been decided in advance—that I'm following a path somebody else has already mapped out for me. It doesn't matter how much I think thin…”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“Fate seems to be taking me in some ever stranger directions.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“That things in life are fated by our previous lives. That even in the smallest events there's no such thing as coincidence.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“Men do not shape destiny. Destiny produces the man for the hour.”

— Fidel Castro, en.wikiquote.org

“Life is too short to pursue every human act to its most remote consequences; "for want of a nail, a kingdom was lost" is a commentary on fate, not the statement of a major cause of action against a blacksmith.”

— Antonin Scalia, law.cornell.edu

“The good Lord wants the Cubs to win!”

— Harry Caray, youtube.com

“I was born and raised in St. Louis, and you can imagine the Cardinals were my favorite team from the day I could remember, and all of a sudden, the miracle of life, I’m broadcasting Cardinal games.”

— Harry Caray, youtube.com

“He was driven to fight for foreign gods whom he did not know, far from his own country. And thus he met his fate. Now he lies there, dying in silence. The noise of the fray no longer reaches his ear. His dimmed eyes are turned inward, perhaps on a final vision of his childhood home where life was si…”

— Fridtjof Nansen, nobelprize.org

“Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform.”

— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com

“Fate decreed two pains for me. I was both an orphan and a captive.”

— Saparmurat Niyazov, newyorker.com

“Fate. Destiny. Luck. The prisons of man. People pass the time, enjoying the choices life provides—coffee or tea, right or left. As if it matters. We are all just spinning on the wheel. There is but one way to keep off the wheel. It's not youth. It's not beauty or true love. I know how to stay off th…”

— John J. Gray, Elsa Mars, Jessica Lange, imdb.com

“A spectacularly foolish and baseless faith, against enormous odds, that a world you do not control will not take from you the one thing you cannot bear to lose.”

— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.com

“You have a ridiculously high regard for fate, mate.”

— Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Captain Jack Sparrow, Johnny Depp, amazon.com

“In eternity, where there is no time, nothing can grow. Nothing can become. Nothing changes. So death created time to grow the things that it would kill and you are reborn but into the same life that you’ve always been born into.”

— Nic Pizzolatto, Rust Cohle, Matthew McConaughey, imdb.com

“I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.”

— Abraham Lincoln, rogerjnorton.com

“If God now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that we of the North as well as you of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity in that wrong, impartial history will find therein new cause to attest and revere the justice and goodness of God.”

— Abraham Lincoln, abrahamlincolnonline.org

“Sometimes things just happen to you. They just happen. You can't help it, but it's what you do next that counts. Not what happens but what you decide to do about it.”

— Nathan Louis Jackson, Hannah Baker, Katherine Langford, imdb.com