Quotes About Destiny

Marvel not," she said. "God clears the way for me. I was born for this.

There were blows to be struck there that only she could strike. She must go to Compiègne. Jeanne was but a young girl. She could not realize that her allotted time was over. It is hard for one to accept the fact one is not needed; that everything can go on as usual without one, and Jeanne was very young.

I would consider it a great blessing, but some of us are cursed to love unwisely and do so until death.

There is no escaping life. It takes what is it's due.

Death is the surest calculation that can be made.

I want to seize fate by the throat.

Must it be? It must be.

Fürst! Was Sie sind, sind Sie durch Zufall und Geburt, was ich bin, bin ich durch mich. Fürsten hat es und wird es noch Tausende geben, Beethoven gibt es nur einen.

schon im Bette drängen sich die Ideen zu dir meine Unsterbliche Geliebte, hier und da freudig, dann wieder traurig. Vom Schicksaale abwartend, ob es unß erhört...

Prince, what you are, you are through chance and birth; what I am, I am through my own labor. There are many princes and there will continue to be thousands more, but there is only one Beethoven.

I shall seize fate by the throat.

He who only wishes and hopes does not interfere actively with the course of events and with the shaping of his own destiny.

On the day before classes were supposed to start, Mama took me out to dinner. "You're destined to do small great things," she told me. "Just like Dr. King said." She was referring to one of her favorite quotes: If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.

You know that the Greeks used to believe that people were made up of two heads and two bodies. But Zeus was afraid of how powerful that could be, so he split people in two. That way, instead of causing trouble for him, they spent the rest of their lives trying to find their other half.

Oh, darling, that's what love is. It's some power greater than you and me, that draws us to one special person.

Some people spend their whole lives looking for that one person. I was lucky enough to have her all along.

You couldn't fight the injustice of fate; you could only suffer it and hope that one day it might be different.

It never failed to amaze Alex how, with the brush of a hand, the track of someone's life might veer in a completely different direction.

Life is what happened when all the 'what-ifs' didn't . . . .

Do you ever go back? Ruthann nods, When I need to remember where I came from, or where I'm headed.

What if we did get so lucky that we're due for something terrible?

It was simply what happened when the histories of two people dovetailed into one.

Whether or not you believe in fate comes down to one thing: who you blame when something goes wrong. Do you think it's your fault - that if you'd tried better, worked harder, it wouldn't have happened? Or do you just chalk it up to circumstance?

The truth is, sometimes things don't happen to you for a reason. Sometimes it's just about being in the right place at the right time for someone else.