Danny Boyle Quotes

Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist.

The fates lead the willing, and drag the unwilling.

Every moment in your life is a turning and every one a choosing. Somewhere you made a choice. All followed to this. The accounting is scrupulous. The shape is drawn. No line can be erased. I had no belief in your ability to move a coin to your bidding. How could you? A person's path through the world seldom changes and even more seldom will it change abruptly. And the shape of your path was visible from the beginning.

It just happened. As though a moment comes when it's both necessary and natural to make a decision that has long since been made.

How shall a man escape from that which is written; How shall he flee from his destiny?

You can't even kill yourself if it isn't your time to go. People have no control whatsoever over what happens to them, and they are beginning to realize this. The future lies in the time of living. Your doing something will get you into tomorrow, if you want to call it tomorrow. If you want to make those distinctions at all.

I'm a very big believer in fate.

The conundrum of free will and destiny has always kept me dangling.

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

We are all tied to our destiny and there is no way we can liberate ourselves.

I think some things are just meant to happen; you can't change your fate. Maybe we have a small amount of control.

Character and fate are two words for the same thing.

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

Love is not in our choice but in our fate.

My whole life has been decided by fate.

I'm not somebody that thinks about destiny and fate, but I don't walk away from it when something unfolds.

Fate is for losers.

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

Can you make a mistake and miss your fate?

I'm not one of those New Age types that believe 'it's all meant to be' and that our lives have been scripted by an invisible hand.

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.

We identify in our exerience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.

Men are not yet ready to shape their own destinies, to control and direct world events, of which -- instead -- they become the victims.

We like to believe we are in control of our destinies, even though we never are and we never have been.

Destiny doesn't make mistakes.