Fate Quotes

“Miniver coughed, and called it fate, And kept on drinking.”

“Men, my dear, are not the architects of their own dispositions.”

“The world is a mill, and we are the grain.”

“You would have no power over me if it were not given to you from above.”

“Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.”

“A throw of the dice will never abolish chance.”

“The soul of the newly born baby is marked for life by the pattern of the stars at the moment of birth.”

“Coincidence is a fool's word for fate.”

“The great wheel of Fate rolls on like a Juggernaut, and crushes us all in turn, some soon, some late.”

“Well, that's just... that's just the way it is. I mean, you can't fight it. It's bigger than both of us.”

“Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.”

“The stars do not compel, they incline.”

“The more systematically a man proceeds, the more effective chance can be.”

“It is an anxious, sometimes a dangerous thing to be a doll. Dolls cannot choose; they can only be chosen; they cannot 'do'; they can only be done by.”

“Just one of those things.”

“Life is ruled by fortune, not wisdom.”

“Et mon particulier est d'être malheureux.”

“Coincidence is the word we use when we can't see the levers and pulleys.”

“Cats may have had their goose cooked, dogs have had their day.”

“Fortune has wings. It can soar to the skies and fly away, but it will not carry me away.”