Rufus Sewell Quotes

Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.

I never forget my old days and I never fly too high I have my feet fixed firmly on the ground!

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.

It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.

Our affairs are attached to the destiny decreed by Allah, even our best plans may lead us to destruction.

People around me would never let me get too big-headed. At the end of the day, you're just another human being.

Humans are powerless, and even in our exercise of free will, either the Universe is gonna get down with your plan, or it isn't.

My mum will ensure my feet stay firmly on the ground.

And it's easy to stay grounded. The ground is very close. And we walk on it every day.

The minute I get swelled up about something, something has always brought me back down to earth.

Whenever I refused to follow my fate, something very hard to bear would happen in my life.

I get moments where you slide and there's an adrenaline shoot, but the moment you scare yourself is the moment you give up. I think what probably scares me more, is that you're involved in something that is quite surreal and you have to be able to bring yourself back down to earth and that's where when you come home and your kids are just excited to have daddy home and tell you about their day, that's one of the greatest things to bring you back down to earth.

Where destiny blunders, human prudence will not avail.

What people commonly call Fate is, as a general rule, nothing but their own stupid and foolish conduct.

...this is the way fate usually treats us, it's right there behind us, it has already reached out a hand to touch us on the shoulder while we're still muttering to ourselves, It's all over, that's it, who cares anyhow.

You can work hard, do everything that you think is right, but one thing you'll never overcome in life is fate. You can't control fate.

Necessity and chance Approach not me, and what I will is fate.

The thing about the Oscars is real life doesn't stop. You have to get back to planet Earth the following morning. The rubbish needs taking out. The kids will be crying. They'll need feeding. Kids do not care whether you've been to the Oscars!

We may be partial, but Fate is not.

Life's single lesson: that there is more accident to it than a man can ever admit to in a lifetime and stay sane.

No man alive can say, This shall not happen to me.

Surely you don’t disbelieve the prophecies, because you had a hand in bringing them about yourself? You don’t really suppose, do you, that all your adventures and escapes were managed by mere luck, just for your sole benefit? You are a very fine person, Mr. Baggins, and I am very fond of you; but you are only quite a little fellow in a wide world after all!

the wheel of fate crushes us all

No power or virtue of man could ever have deserved that what has been fated should not have taken place.