Paul Mooney Quotes

There is no armor against fate.

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

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

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

How shall a man escape from that which is written; How shall he flee from his destiny?

You can't even kill yourself if it isn't your time to go. People have no control whatsoever over what happens to them, and they are beginning to realize this. The future lies in the time of living. Your doing something will get you into tomorrow, if you want to call it tomorrow. If you want to make those distinctions at all.

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

Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.

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

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

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

Detachment is what interests me, seeing how people couldn't have been any other way, how they were the product of forces that they had no control over.

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.

I believe life is fated - what's going to happen will happen.

No one can defy fate.

Fate has many faces.

I believe in fate.

I always believe in destiny.

There are so many things that you have no control over: whether you play or not, whether you get traded or not, or whether you get waived or not.

I've always said everything happens the way it's supposed to.

You can't fight your fate...It is predestined.

I'm a believer that things happen. Fate is what happens.

PREDESTINATION, n. The doctrine that all things occur according to programme. . . . not be confused with that of foreordination. The difference is great enough to have deluged Christendom with ink, to say nothing of the gore.

Men plan. Fate Laughs. Guis Alera, First Lord