->''"Destiny, chance, fate, fortune—they're all just ways of claiming your successes without claiming your failures."''
-->--[[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=4879 Gerrard]] of the Weatherlight, TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering

->"I don't run from prophecies."
->"We're not asking you to run. We're asking you to reconsider a possibly dangerous and unnecessary course of action."
->"It's the same thing."
->"No, it's not. It's using foreknowledge to anticipate the future and then changing it."
->"And if the future cannot be changed, it's simply delaying fate. Better to meet the future face-to-face, than have it sneak up on you when you're not expecting it."
-->--''[[Literature/TalesOfTheBranionRealm The Stone Prince]]''

->Bottom line is, even if you see 'em coming, you're not ready for the big moments. No one asks for their life to change, not really. But it does. So what are we, helpless? Puppets? No. The big moments are gonna come. You can't help that. It's what you do afterwards that counts.\\
That's when you find out who you are.\\
You'll see what I mean.
-->--'''Whistler''', ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', "Becoming"

->'''Tara''': Willow says that things always happen for a reason.\\
'''Buffy''': But you ever notice people only say that about ''bad'' things?
-->-- ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', "Triangle"

->''"The question that once haunted my being has been answered. The future is not fixed; my choices are my own. And yet, how ironic... [[WhatYouAreInTheDark for I now find I have no choice at all]]."''
-->-- '''Dinobot''', ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'', "Code of Hero"

->"Destiny is equal parts chance, free will, and necessity."
-->-- '''Virgil''', ''WesternAnimation/MightyMax''

->'''Bender''': So do you know what I'm gonna do before I do it?\\
'''[[DeusEstMachina God Probe]]''': Yes.\\
'''Bender''': What if I do something different?\\
'''God Probe''': Then I don't know that.
-->--''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}, "Godfellas"''

->"[[ArcWords May those who accept their fate be granted happiness. May those who defy their fate be granted glory.]]"
-->--''Anime/PrincessTutu''

->'''Oracle:''' Candy?\\
'''Neo:'''...Do you already know if I'm going to take it?\\
'''Oracle:''' Wouldn't be much of an oracle if I didn't.\\
'''Neo:''' But if you already know, how can I make a choice?\\
'''Oracle:''' Because you didn't come here to make the choice. You've already made it. You're here to try to understand ''why'' you made it.
-->--''Film/TheMatrixReloaded''

->'''Smith:''' You must be able to see it, Mister Anderson, you must know it by now! You can't win, it's pointless to keep fighting! Why, Mister Anderson, why, ''why do you PERSIST?!''\\
'''Neo:''' Because I choose to.
-->--''Film/TheMatrixRevolutions''

->''"You have known [[PowerOfTheVoid the Shadow]] as [[DarkIsEvil nothing but horrors]]. The Shadow sees [[LightEmUp the Light]] [[LightIsNotGood in the same way]]. [[BothSidesHaveAPoint Neither viewpoint is true. Neither is wrong.]] The Light seeks one path and shuns all others as lies. The Shadow seeks every possible path and sees them all as truth."''
-->--'''Locus-Walker''', ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft''

->''"I don't know if the future is written or unwritten. My mind could travel up and down these paths, and they were like memories. But like memory, the mind would shape them to suit its ends. Were these my fears or my hopes? It takes a cold eye to see the future for what it is."''
-->--'''Shelob''', ''Videogame/MiddleEarthShadowOfWar''