‘The Sound of Things Falling’ may be a page turner, but it’s also a deep meditation on fate and death. Even in translation, the superb quality of Vasquez’s prose is evident, captured in Anne McLean’s idiomatic English version. All the novel’s characters are well imagined, original and rounded.
I really believe in fate and that everything happens for a reason. There’s always a plan. Even things that happen to you that feel like an obstacle or a disaster in the moment will pave the way for your next step.
Language is just a communication tool; it is the content that decides the fate of a film.
The perception of linked fate and that feeling of being always on the spot as a representative of the race, at least in mixed company, are features of African American life that predate affirmative action and arise outside of its presence.
I believe in fate. Sometimes that means an old bearded guy sitting on a cloud and pulling the strings; sometimes it means random atoms swirling through a cheerless universe; sometimes it means everything being preordained thanks to your karma credit from your previous lives.
The parties are all trying to reinvent themselves. I believe this upheaval is destined to take the country’s fate into a different direction.
Once we realize the extraordinary power we have to compose our lives, we’ll move from passive, conditioned thinking to being co-creators of our fate.
How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.
To our Palestinian neighbours, I assure you that we have a genuine intention to respect your right to live independently and in dignity. I have already said that Israel has no desire to continue to govern over you and control your fate.
Even in political considerations, now-a-days, you have stronger motives to feel interested in the fate of Europe than in the fate of the Central or Southern parts of America.
Responsibility without power, the fate of the secretary through the ages.
With chess it was almost this palpable electricity that I felt. You’re totally in control of your own fate. There’s no luck factor. It’s you and the pieces.
My mother is a fighter. After she battled polio and learned to walk again, the doctors told her she would be a cripple her entire life. Instead of accepting defeat, she refused this fate and went on to become the West African Women’s Singles tennis champion in college.
I don’t believe in fate.
To me, it was a sad fate to have been born into a period and a world where everything was in tip-top order, and the only real excitement was to be found in history books and occasionally also in the paper.
They say, you don’t get anything before time and more than fate. I truly believe that and have never felt the need to fight it out, to say ‘why this didn’t happen earlier.’
My fate is in the hands of almighty Allah.
Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.
Have any of our friends got off the Island with their families, or what must they submit to? Despotism or destruction, I fear, is their fate.
The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.
Homelessness is the actor’s fate; physical incapacity to attain what is most required and desired by such a spirit as I am a slave to.
I started writing songs with my best friend Eden Rice when were in our early teens. We performed together at local coffee shops in suburban Atlanta as Kemp and Eden, until fate intervened and we were separated.
No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation.
Commerce changes the fate and genius of nations.
Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but mind; which experienced a similar fate from the hand of Mr. Hume in 1737.
It’s to your advantage to work your brain as well as your body. The rest is up to fate.
I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
The gene ‘klotho’ was named after the Greek Fate purported to spin the thread of life, because it contributes to longevity.
If you do not create your destiny, you will have your fate inflicted upon you.
There is nothing cooler than having lines like, ‘Batman, the fate of the world is upon us.’ Who gets to say that? And who gets to say that in a deep, earnest, amazingly sexy way?
Funding for the original manned Voyager Mars Program was scratched in 1968, before humans had gotten out of Low Earth Orbit. Mid-’60s plans for a Venus fly-by with astronauts actually flying by it met the same fate.
Fate determines many things, no matter how we struggle.
Fate loves the fearless.
A person may rightfully be happy if in this life he could do a great favor for widows and orphans, could assist support than, and facilitate fate of people.
Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
I figured I was going to apply to one journalism school and let fate take a hand.
Nature, I have constantly argued in my work, is the real superpower of this godless universe. It is the ultimate disposer of human fate, randomly recarving geography over 10,000-year epochs.
Gentle reader, the Fountain of Youth is radioactive, and those who imbibe its poisonous heavy waters will suffer the hideous fate of decaying metal. Yet almost without exception, the wretched idiot inhabitants of our benighted planet would gulp down this radioactive excrement if it were offered.
But for a few twists of fate, the gasoline engine we know today might have just been a small footnote in history.
I’ve never wanted to be an actress. I came into the industry to be a filmmaker, but let us say fate had other plans for me. I don’t want to be the next glamour queen.
When you watch one person on stage trying to surmount their fate only in that very action to embody it, it’s called a tragedy. When you see a lot of people doing it on stage, it’s called ‘Fawlty Towers.’
And if you cannot remain indifferent, you must resolve to throw your weight into that balance in which the fate and condition of man is weighed.
Farming is the riskiest profession in the world since the fate of the crop is closely linked to the behaviour of the monsoon.
Whatever else may divide us, Europe is our common home; a common fate has linked us through the centuries, and it continues to link us today.
There are a whole lot of little tales told in ‘Presumed Innocent,’ whether it’s about the Hobberly kid, who was an important witness who ends up assassinated, or an accountant named Marcy Lupino, who meets a horrible fate in a state penitentiary. There’s less of that in ‘Innocent,’ and deliberately so.
Seoul will co-operate with the national government so that the 2032 Summer Olympics become something more than a sports festival – an opportunity to change the fate of the Korean Peninsula.
I wonder whether being a scientist’s daughter makes you so conflicted about free will and fate.
Saddam’s fate should be in the hands of his country men. They were the major victims of his brutal reign and should decide his life, death, or permanent imprisonment. Personally, I would lock him away forever.
I believe that fate is choices – it’s not chance.
It is nobody’s right to be waited on and nobody’s fate to do the waiting.
Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions.
I was 9 when I wrote ‘Fate Stay with Me.’ It was this fictional song about romance gone wrong.
I remember talking to comedian Jimmy Pardo about his experience waiting to hear about his own pilot, and we both agreed on one thing: When you can’t control your showbiz fate, you can at least control the amount of ice cream you’re eating. And if you’re like us, it was a lot.
I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above; those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love.
The good news about entrepreneurship is that your fate is in your hands. The bad news is that your fate is in your hands!
I remember my agent at ICM at the beginning of my career telling me that I wasn’t pretty enough, that I was always going to be a quirky sidekick. And he was an ogre of a man. He should have been carrying a torch. If he was in a bar, he couldn’t have come near me, and then he was deciding my fate.
The rude awakening I got was that this country can determine the fate of anyone by using propaganda on a public that is hungry for lies.
I joyfully hasten to meet death. If it come before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic faculties, it will come, my hard fate notwithstanding, too soon, and I should probably wish it later – yet even then I shall be happy, for will it not deliver me from a state of endless suffering?
But I have learned a thing or two; I know as sure as fate, when we lock up our lives for wealth, the gold key comes too late.
I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
A brief short story may require only a few paragraphs after the climax. On the other hand, in his massive novel ‘The World According to Garp,’ John Irving’s denouement consisted of 10 separate sections, each devoted to an individual character’s fate and each almost a story in itself.
