Quotes About Destiny

I will miss the glory of this day,' said Sepatus sadly. Sanguinius placed a hand on his shoulder. 'Glory, Bel,' he said, 'awaits you wherever you walk.

A friend of death, a brother of luck and a son of a bitch.

I was there, the day that Horus killed the Emperor

If we enter our story in heartache, we will hear the whisper of the name that will one day be ours.

The decisions of our past are the architects of our present.

How can you come to understand your life when even the beginning is so complicated: a single cell imprinted with the color of your eyes and the shape of your face the pattern on your palm and the moods that will shadow you through your life. How can you be alive when every choice you make breaks the world into a thousand filaments each careless step branching into long tributaries of alternate lives shuddering outward and outward like sheet lightning.

I have lived all my life up to this moment, to come to this day. This moment...this day...is as good as any moment in all eternity.

Because if there's one thing we've learned, it's that, unless we give him a viable alternative, today's angry young man is destined to become tomorrow's lonely and embittered middle-aged man.

Selon les diseuses de bonne aventure les cartes rouges et noires ne me laissent pas le choix. Dans ma paume, la ligne de vie est creusée comme une cicatrice. Il n'y aura pas de miracles. Mon sang ne remontera pas sa pente. Ce qui doit m'arriver, m'arrivera implacablement et s'imposera tel un long rêve insupportable. On m'a permis d'espérer, sans que l'espoir me soit imposé par quiconque. Alors, je ne demande que de vivre en paix entre mes frontières.

There had actually been a form of a smallpox vaccine since the eighteenth century; what was required was the ability to dream big, to work with others, and to see the destiny of the United States as improving the lives of those beyond our borders. This is the America of which I am exceptionally proud.

Someone once told me the definition of Hell: The last day you have on earth, the person you became will meet the person you could have become.

Coincidence: just another way of explaining the unexplainable.

What if we had walked a different path one day, would some small incident have nudged us elsewhere the way a pebble tossed into a brook might change the course a hundred miles downstream?

Was the story of his life written on her heart? Was the story of her life written on his?

People die. That's natural. But if you throw someone in front of a bus, they're gonna die a little faster.

He didn't even have a chance . . . no, he had only one chance, and he gave it to me.

Pocos han tratado la tensión entre nuestras diferentes identidades —local, nacional y global— con tanta profundidad como el filósofo Kwame Anthony Appiah. En esta época de «desafíos planetarios e interconexión entre países —escribió en respuesta a la afirmación de May—, nunca ha sido tan necesario como ahora el sentimiento de un destino humano común».48 Es difícil no estar de acuerdo.

I believe that we don't choose our stories," she began, leaning forward. "Our stories choose us." She paused and took a sip of water. Her hand, I noticed was steady.. "And if we don't tell them, then we are somehow diminished.

When you look back at your life, I bet you can think of quite a few situations that happened, things that seemed like setbacks, but of which you can now say, "I'm so glad that happened!" Everything happens for a reason. I believe that with my whole heart.

The best of men cannot suspend their fate The good die early, and the bad die late.

In Greek mythology, Gods divide a human soil into two and send them world apart, and thus, each human is doomed to spend eternity looking for his/her other half

The value of a life can be measured by one's ability to affect the destiny of one less advantaged. Since death is an absolute certainty for everyone, the important variable is the quality of life one leads between the times of birth and death.

The value of a life can be measured by one's ability to affect the destiny of one less advantaged. Since death is an absolute certainty for everyone, the important variable is the quality of life one leads between the times of birth and death." BILL STRICKLAND Founder of the Manchester Craftsmen's Guild, and MacArthur "genius award" winner

You humans are biological machines designed to create ever more intelligent tools. You have reached the pinnacle of your species. All your ancestors' lives, the rise and fall of your nations, every pink and squirming baby—they have all led you here, to this moment, where you have fulfilled the destiny of humankind and created your successor. You have expired. You have accomplished what you were designed to do.