He who is prepared for the future and he who deals cleverly with any situation that may arise are both happy but the fatalistic man who wholly depends on luck is ruined.
Fate & Destiny Quotes (3415 Quotes)
Union does everything when it is perfect.- It satisfies desires, simplifies needs, foresees the wishes, and Becomes a constant fortune.
Apparently the employees who threw this pot luck were planning to take it home and were offended by my action. Now I thought we were all basically on the same team and if someone didn't like what I did they would tell me so and I would apologize and maybe offer to pay for the pizza. These employees ended up telling their manager, who told her vice president about what I did.
My life is a fault at last, I fear:
It seems too much like a fate, indeed!
But what can be more resembling to Life than Death Nothing And yet, they both obey a destiny which is a shadow of God, as we are too, except that this shadow can no longer be defined as an opposite to the other two, but as destiny, because we cannot think above a bivalent logic. Otherwise, Destiny too would be one of the opposites of Life or Death, because he too, just as the other two is a shadow of God, with the only difference that its a shadow that can be sighted through a superior logic.
We're going to shoot one Polaroid per show. I'm going to sign this before it even develops because I know that once it develops with my signature on it, it's worth a fortune. I'll make this a work of magic warlock art.
We played well, but we had a little bit of luck today. We can't take our lead over Bremen too seriously -- these things change fast in football.
We were very lucky in that eight-year period, and the luck just ran out. We always thought it would run out.
He came into camp in the best condition of his life. He really did ... He's a little bit unlucky.
We talked about old times, about high school. James is a good friend of mine. Whenever we get a chance to meet and talk we do. So, it was along the lines of that and just wishing each other good luck.
He's got all the attributes of a good horse. He's good enough that he makes his own luck. He can run on the front end, but he doesn't have to have the lead. I don't know about everybody else, but I know Lawyer Ron is the real deal.
Adelaide played very well and we didn't have a good game. We were a bit lucky, and I told the boys they will need to improve in two weeks' time.
Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.
Destiny stands by sarcastic with our dramatis personae folded in her hand.
Richard Burton came from the same town as me, so I thought I'd follow my nose, and follow my luck. I think I've been very lucky.
No bad man is lucky. Nemo malus felix.
A man must know his destiny if he does not recognize it, then he is lost. By this I mean, once, twice, or at the very most, three times, fate will reach out and tap a man on the shoulder if he has the imagination, he will turn around and fate will point out to him what fork in the road he should take, if he has the guts, he will take it.
My father Charlie Knox told me that you have to take your lickings. Take your knocks, ... Don't bemoan your fate. Everybody's not going to be dealt the same hand. Everybody's going to go through tough times.
We've had problems with the Cardinals, no question. We've just got to buckle down now and play some good ball. We're still in control of our destiny.
We played with a little bad luck. Hopefully we can win the next two and move on.
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.
I don't think we shot well (38.7 percent), but I think we played well and yet it took us 30 minutes to shake them, maybe 35 minutes to shake them. That's just by their tenacity and how hard they played. Providence has a young team. The three guys who I think played really well for us happened to be seniors and that makes a difference in college basketball.
Upon this day I decree I am the master of my destiny. No more loathing against the light, no more embracing of the night. From this day you will see a man freed from misery.
Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts, our attitudes. That is why many people live in the withering negative world. That is why many people live in the Positive Faith world.
He was a brilliant producer who made a fortune and, of course, lost every cent in hare-brained investments, ... And he was in love with the male ingnue in the theatrical troupe the only downside was the ingnue was, by this time, about 52, and he kept insisting on playing 18-year-olds. This guy insisted every season on doing two Shakespeare plays, and invariably somebody tried to murder him during the performance because, strangely enough, Shakespeare wasn't big in the mining camps.
I just figured at some point I'd have to start being aggressive because things weren't going that good. We were getting good looks, but we just weren't knocking them down. So I thought I'd try my luck, and it started rolling.
The manner in which you treat people and circumstances in your life, reflects on how you handle your life and your environment. Bear in mind that your destiny is carved out of that.
I admire addicts. In a world where everybody is waiting for some bline, random disaster, or some sudden disease, the addict has the comfort of knowing what will most likely wait for him down the road. He's taken some control over his ultimate fate, and his addiction keeps the cause of death from being a total surprise.
In the first half we were definitely on our heels. Providence had just installed new turf and it took us some time to adjust to how the ball rolled.
Amor Fati Love Your Fate, which is in fact your life.
All I can tell people in the Keys who are trying to ride this one out is one of these days your luck is going to run out.
It's a tough thing to take . . . especially when you've got two wins you could've, should've had. We just didn't get them, and now we've just got to hope for some luck.
We just did a show in Providence, Rhode Island, and we got three puppy shots before we even got on the air, which was great. Although sometimes you get flashed by some puppies that you'd rather not see. They're more like mongrels.
The campaign is paring down, and I wish them the best of luck.
The War was decided in the first twenty days of fighting, and all that happened afterwards consisted in battles which, however formidable and devastating, were but desperate and vain appeals against the decision of Fate.
We are apt to forget that a great man is thus not only great, but also a man that a philosopher, in a life time, spends less hours pondering the destiny of the race than he gives over to wondering if it will rain tomorrow and to meditating upon the
My whole life has been decided by fate.
I consider myself lucky. Some people came with nothing but the clothes on their back, ... Im not stressed. Im not exhausted. I didnt have to get on top of my roof and wait for help.
If ignorance paid dividends, most Americans could make a fortune out of what they don't know about economics.
Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means one feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray whereas people of fortune may naturally indulge in a few delinquencies.
One big reason why men do not develop greater abilities, greater sales strength, greater resourcefulness is because they use neither their abilities nor their opportunities. We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have. Men fail and their families suffer deprivations when all the time these men have in their possession the same assets other men are utilizing to accumulate a fortune.... Life doesn't cheat. It doesn't pay in counterfeit coin. It doesn't lock up shop and go home when pay-day comes. It pays every man exactly what he has earned. The age-old law that a man gets what he earns hasn't been suspended. When we take that truth home and believe it, we've turned a big corner on the high road that runs straight through to success.
I think we've realized the intensity that has to be matched or taken into these games. If we run the table and Omaha still stays ahead of us, kudos to them, but basically we control a lot of our own destiny.
Man supposes that he directs his life and governs his actions, when his existence is irretrievably under the control of destiny.
Even though they were qualified, they had to wait until someone died or retired. That could take years. This agreement allows the worker to control his own destiny.
We've had lots of e-mails -- some wishing us luck, others offering marriage proposals and quite a few asking how to get into curling and where their nearest club is.
England got the luck this time, but if we keep producing performances like that it'll come our way,
Fortune does not so much change men, as it unmasks them.
Meditate in remembrance on the Lord and Master, O my Siblings of Destiny, everyone has to pass this way.
I have complete artistic control, and I just do my best album every time and trust it to fate.
Knight Ridder Newspapers Helen Keller believed in having a courageous dignity in the presence of fate. ... discover the truth of today, and perhaps find the greatness of tomorrow.