Virgil Quotes

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.

What's meant to be will always find a way.

Nothing ever happens till it happens.

Fate has a way of getting what she wants, no matter how we try to avoid it.

This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away.

No one can defy fate.

Fate, however, is to all appearance more unavoidable than unexpected.

Fate keeps on happening.

There is no armor against fate.

How shall I speak of Doom, and ours in special, But as of something altogether common?

There's very few people - like Shakespeare - who, no matter what, were gonna do what they did. For the rest of us, there's a lot of events that have to happen in order for things to end up the way they are.

Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.

Man blindly works the will of fate.

Fate has many faces.

There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

Sometimes, what you do you have no control over because it's predestined. It's gonna happen in spite of you. There's nothing you can do about it.

I do not believe anything comes by chance. I regard the present as the necessary child of a necessary past.

I'm a great believer in fate. I think things happen in spite of, and despite, yourself.

I think 'destiny' is just a fancy word for a psychological pattern.

There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.

Everything happens kind of the way it's supposed to happen, and we just watch it unfold. And you can't control it. Looking back, you can't say, 'I should've... ' You didn't, and had you, the outcome would have been different.

Nothing is inevitable until it happens.

Personally, I would say the 'master' of this whole thing is fate... Whoever is on the playing field is fair game, and it's up to them to avoid being used.

There's this classic car crash thing about 'Macbeth.' You can just see this car driving at 100 mph towards this brick wall, and you can't do anything about it, and the characters are desperately trying to stop it and can't.