Amelia Barr Quotes

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

Fate will find a way.

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

There is no armor against fate.

Fate keeps on happening.

Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.

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

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.

It is the destiny of mint to be crushed.

Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.

Man blindly works the will of fate.

The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we're not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence.

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.

Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.

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.

Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.

It is we that are blind, not fortune.

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

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

Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.

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.

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

I had always been a fatalist about my career. What was to be was to be.

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.