Jacques Cousteau Quotes

The Rebel bullet that can kill me has not yet been molded.

Love cannot save you from your own fate.

Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.

Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.

I feel like I don't have a lot of time left.

It's a lot like life. I think 99 percent of what goes on in life, we have very little control over.

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

The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late.

My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.

No matter what kind of problem I've run into, there's always been a solution for it. Now, obviously, there will be a point where there aren't any more solutions, and I'll have used up my time. We all do.

There is no armor against fate.

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

Man never legislates, but destinies and accidents, happening in all sorts of ways, legislate in all sorts of ways.

I don't believe in life after death. But I do believe in some grinding destiny that watches over us on earth. If I didn't, the safety valve would give and the boiler would explode.

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.

Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?

Whether you like it or not, you're forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don't fear death, I'm a fatalist. I believe when it's your time, that's it. It's the hand you're dealt.

Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny.

The moment you're born you're done for.

The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life - he first individualizes.

We all know we have a prescribed amount of time on Earth. We just don't know how much.

Nothing in life is promised except death.

We are not the masters of our own destiny as far as our case load is concerned.

The march of events rules and overrules human action.

As I look down the path to the future I see before me the footprint of the hand of fate.