James Shirley Quotes

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.

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

Fate keeps on happening.

Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.

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

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.

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.

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.

Fate will find a way.

There are so many things that could happen and will happen that are out of my control.

Fortune blinds men when she does not wish them to withstand the violence of her onslaughts.

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

The compulsion of fate is bitter.

Nothing ever happens till it happens.

Even the gods cannot strive against necessity.

No one can defy fate.

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

Alas! we are the sport of destiny.

Fate finds for every man; his share of misery.

We are the playthings of the gods.

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

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

There is a destiny that shapes our ends rough, hew them as we will.

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

Nature deals the cards without thought or care, and there is no point in blaming the dealer. All we can do is make the best of the hands we have been dealt.