Quotes About Destiny

Lettie, as the second daughter, was never likely to come to much

That is the path of Wickedness, though some call it the Road to Heaven.

Sophie," Michael said in a voice of doom.

Don't think I can't see your point of view — you're a young fellow, disappointed in love, impatient — naturally you think Fate's against you. Take it from me, Fate doesn't care either way most of the time.

Yedi fersahl?k çizme ve görünmezlik pelerini gibi ÅŸeylerin sahiden var olduÄŸu Ingary ülkesinde üç k?z kardeÅŸin en büyüÄŸü olarak doÄŸmak büyük talihsizliktir. Üçünüz de k?smetinizi aramaya ç?karsan?z, ilk olarak ve en kötü ÅŸekilde senin kaybedeceÄŸini herkes bilir.

Ä°lginç ÅŸeyler oluyordu, ama daima baÅŸkalar?na oluyordu.

I didn't ask to be a witch.' Chrestomanci looked at him with faint, chilly surprise. 'Didn't you?' The way he said it made Charles actually wonder, for a moment, if he had somehow chosen to be born a witch.

Sophie lut: « Va prendre l'étoile tombée Et fais enfanter la mandragore, cette racine pure. Dis-moi où sont donc les années écoulées Ou qui du diable le sabot fend. Apprends-moi à entendre des sirènes le chant Ou à retenir de l'envie les morsures Et trouve céans Quel bon vent Permet à l'esprit honnête d'aller de l'avant. Décide de ce qu'il en est Et le second couplet toi-mémé écriras. »

Dans le pays d'Ingary, où des choses étonnantes comme les bottes de sept lieues et les capes d'invisibilité existent bel et bien, c'est une véritable calamité que d'être l'aîné de trois enfants ; chacun sait que vous serez le premier à échouer, si d'aventure vous décidiez d'aller chercher fortune.

You can tell them you're a Homeward Bounder.

The farther afield you go, the more you are going home ... as if the gods put us down with a certain arbitrary glee in the wrong place and what we seek is who we had really ought to be.

A legend can just as well be founded in the future as in the past. It's called a 'prophecy,' Urruah said. You may have heard of the concept.

But only when it was too late did they realize the price they must pay for escaping their destiny. Every Happy Ever After was tainted. Fate, at first so amenable, so reasonable, so open to negotiation, ends up by exacting a cruel revenge for happiness.

I'd expected that I would expand to fit the experience automatically, that I would get my first glimpse of the person I was destined to be.

the price they must pay for escaping their destiny.

When the time was right he would run away—and be part of the story.

Destiny is not a 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.1 —WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

God - it's merely shorthand for where we come from, where we're going and what it's all about

It is time to awaken!" "You have a mission! It is time to begin!" "Stop wasting time! Time is growing short for you to accomplish what you came to Earth to do!

Some people are lucky. They become who they are supposed to be. This did not happen to me until I met (your mother). One day we started to talk and it never stopped, this conversation.

If the world is where we hide from ourselves, what do we do when the world is no longer accessible? We invent a false name, invent a destiny, purchase a firearm through the mail.

And you keep on looking. You look because this is the nature of the footage, to make a channeled path through time, to give things a shape and a destiny.

People had hoped to be caught up in something bigger than themselves. They thought it would be a shared crisis. They would feel a sense of shared purpose, shared destiny. Like a snowstorm that blankets a large city – but lasting months, lasting years, carrying everyone along, creating fellow feeling where there was only suspicion and fear. The war would ennoble everything we say and do. What was impersonal would become personal. What was solitary would be shared.

Le trame possiedono una logica. C'è una tendenza, nelle trame, a evolvere in direzione della morte.