Alice Levine Quotes

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.

Fate determines many things, no matter how we struggle.

If it is our destiny to be hit by the train, we will be hit by the train. The only thing we can change is how the train turns us into a hamburger.

You're not always able to choose.

Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.

No man can be stronger than his destiny.

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

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

Many events in our lives are the result of things beyond our control. While it is comforting to think, 'I'm in charge,' in truth, most changes effected by individuals are very limited in scope.

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

There are things we control - but things that are not in control, no point wasting time and energy into that.

It's better to accept destiny.

Fate does not seek our consent.

Fate does not always seek our consent.

I'm a victim of maybe circumstances, but look at how it worked out.

I believe that you are only in control of so much. So whatever you are not in control of you can't worry about.

I don't think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

Nothing can save something that is not meant to be, no matter how hard you try.

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

Under the big political umbrella, a man is just like a leaf in the ocean, with no control of his destiny and does not have any choice.

There is no armor against fate.

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

I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own body obey me.

Life is going to unfold as it should because life always does.

Life doesn't run away from nobody. Life runs at people.