Whatever may happen to you was prepared for you from all eternity; and the implication of causes was from eternity spinning the thread of your being.
If something can’t go on forever, it will stop.
Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.
Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.
Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please …. All history is the record of man’s signal failure to thwart his destiny.
Fate is a future you didn't try hard enough to change.
The best laid plans o’ mice an’ men Gang aft a-gley
Burns phrase “mice an’ men” is later used as the title of John Steinbeck’s novel – Of Mice and Men, 1939.
Not even Ares battles against necessity.
Man blindly works the will of fate. [Ger., Blindlings that er blos den Willen des Geschickes.]
I could be hit by a Sara Lee truck tomorrow. Which is not a bad way of going: 'Richard Simmons Found in a Freeway in Pound Cake and Fudge, With a Smile on His Face.' Let's face it. We don't know anything.
What people commonly call fate is mostly their own stupidity.
Put two ships in the open sea, without wind or tide, and, at last, they will come together. Throw two planets into space, and they will fall one on the other. Place two enemies in the midst of a crowd, and they will inevitably meet; it is a fatality, a question of time; that is all.
Fate and necessity are unconquerable.
I believe in destiny. I believe destiny opens doors for you, but it's up to you to walk through them.
What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
Fate isn't some middle-aged man with a squint who won't recognize you if you change your clothes.
Fate intervened. Some of us, that day, she led inexorably through the gates of death. Some of us, innocent and unsuspecting, took, unwillingly, that one last step to oblivion. Some of us took very little sugar.
Nothing can save something that is not meant to be, no matter how hard you try.
Fate is gonna find you in your glass of champagne.
What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.
Which death is preferably to every other? 'The unexpected'.
Fate does not always seek our consent.
We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us.
How do I know it was meant to happen this way? Because it did.
I didn't reject 'Good News.' The situation was such that it couldn't happen.