What people commonly call fate is mostly their own stupidity.
Fate isn't some middle-aged man with a squint who won't recognize you if you change your clothes.
I have come to realize that destiny can hurt a person as much as it can bless him.
the wheel of fate crushes us all
A fate is not a punishment.
Our destiny is frequently met in the very paths we take to avoid it.
A boy and a girl, fated to rule all. Two will rise, and One will fall.
Fate has terrible power. You cannot escape it by wealth or war. No fort will keep it out, no ships outrun it.
Our fate is something which exists outside ourselves, and which once revealed expresses the meaning of our lives. Apart, however, from soothsayers who claim to have a means of foretelling exactly what will befall us, this kind of fate is only normally revealed after a life has ended. Only then can the meaning of that life be understood.
No power or virtue of man could ever have deserved that what has been fated should not have taken place.
Yet who shall shut out Fate?
I walked towards my fate with my destiny standing solidly by my side
What sense is there in continuing when one has seen the future?
The great wheel of Fate rolls on like a Juggernaut, and crushes us all in turn, some soon, some late
You know what I think? Fate! That's what it is fate! There's a thing that comes after a fellow:got a name,but I forgot what it is. Creeps up behind him, and puts him in the basket when he ain't expecting it.
Life is a compromise between fate and free will.
...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.
I definitely believe in fate. And I believe what you put in is what you get in return. That's the way it's worked for me. As for the big picture - there's some sort of plan.
Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today
Whenever I refused to follow my fate, something very hard to bear would happen in my life.
Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them. -Francois
Destiny is usually just around the corner. Like a thief, a hooker, or a lottery vendor: its three most common personifications. But what destiny does not do is home visits. You have to go for it.
You have the illusion of free will, but, in fact, that illusion comes about because you don't know the future. Because you are a prisoner of the present, forever locked in transition, between the past and the future.
I believe in science but I also believe in fate.
Destiny is simply the relentless logic of each day we live.
