Read all about it in this collection of more or less desperate explaining of the unexpectable!

"Fate: power thought to control all events; person's destiny."
[The Oxford guide to the English language]

"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." 
[Gilbert K. Chesterton]

"Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart."
[Marcus Aurelius]

"When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make a lemonade." 
[Dale Carnegie]

"To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself." 
[Albert Einstein]

"A nation is a totality of men united through community of fate into a community of character." 
[Otto Bauer]

"The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late." 
[Daniel Defoe]

"Fate is God, and God is fate." 
[Brandon]

"I believe that Fate is the ruling force in our lives, but it gives us room to make choices for ourselves." 
[Jana]

"Destiny: fate considered as a power, what is destined by fate to happen to a person or thing." 
[The Oxford guide to the English language]

"A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure." 
[Ambrose Bierce]

"Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice: It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved." 
[William Jennings Bryan]

"One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it." 
[French Proverb]

"Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a monster they call Destiny." 
[John Oliver Hobbes]

"Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual
thought corresponds with our desire." 
[Orison S. Marden]

"Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny." 
[Kin Hubbard]

"If a man is destined to drown, he will drown even in a spoonful of water." 
[Yiddish Proverb]

"Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave." 
[James Russell Lowell]

"Every man is the architect of his own fortune." 
[Sallust]

"He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner." 
[Benjamin Franklin]

"Fortune is a great deceiver. She sells very dear the things she seems to give us." 
[Vincent Voiture]

"It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, but is ruled by prudence." 
[John Dryden] 

"Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character." 
[Ralph Waldo Emerson] 

"Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together." 
[Douglas Jerrold] 

"Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her." 
[Mark Twain] 

"Why not you?  Life is a game, you play or be played.  Place the Master in charge of the Game and you will win every time!"  
From: Ruby M. Fleurcius, 04 Jan 01 

"Never do unto others what you must undo..." 
("Froggy", Our Gang Comedies) 
From: EagleTwo, 21 Dec 97 

"So I cried. Just for a second. Then I thought, 'I must rock'." 
(James Iha of Tha Smashing Pumpkins) 
From: Vegar, 04 Oct 97 

"Man must release himself from his pathetic faith in a God and fulfill his real potential" 
(Friedrich Nietzsche -From his masterpiece: "Thus spoke Zarathustra") 
From: Mats, 15 Aug 97 

"I am not a man. I am dynamite!" 
(Friedrich Nietzsche -From his masterpiece: "Thus spoke Zarathustra") 
From: Mats, 15 Aug 97

"The truth is that I am a Penguin in a world full of Polar Bears" 
(Student, Norway) 
From: Mats, 15 Aug 97 

"To err is human, but to really foul things up, requires as computer" 
(Paul Erlich, Farmers Almanac 1978) 
From: Tom W. H., 2 Feb 97 

"Things are not always as bad as they seem, so lighten up and make it possible for things to improve." 
From: Per E. S., 20 Jan 97 

"I'm out of estrogen, and I've got a gun" 
From: X, 19 Jan 97