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Quotes About Destiny

His whispered word seemed to hang in the air: "Timshel!" His eyes closed and he slept.
~ John Steinbeck
Can a man think out his life, or must he just tag along?
~ John Steinbeck
And this Kino knew also - that the gods do not love men's plans, and the gods do not love success unless it comes by accident.
~ John Steinbeck
Up ahead they's a thousan' lives we might live, but when it comes, it'll on'y be one. If I go ahead on all of 'em, it's too much.
~ John Steinbeck
Let any gay and hopeful thing happen to a man, and some chicken goes howling to the block.
~ John Steinbeck
If it is right, it happens-the main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.
~ John Steinbeck
Up ahead they's a thousan' lives we might live, but when it comes, it'll on'y be one. If I go ahead on all of 'em, it's too much. You got to live ahead 'cause you're so young, but—it's jus' the road goin' by for me.
~ John Steinbeck
I say to you, without pleasure, that this son of ours will be a great man, because -- well -- because he is not very intelligent. He can see only one desire at a time. I said he tested his dreams; he will murder every dream with the implacable arrows of his will. This boy will win to every goal of his aiming; for he can realize no thought, no reason, but his own. And I am sorry for his coming greatness...
~ John Steinbeck
We carried life out here and set it down the way those ants carry eggs. And I was the leader. The westering was as big as God, and the slow steps that made the movement piled up and piled up until the continent was crossed. "Then we came down to the sea, and it was done." He stopped and wiped his eyes until the rims were red. "That's what I should be telling instead of stories." When Jody spoke, Grandfather started and looked down at him.
~ John Steinbeck
Sen belki bütün gece gezmeyi saÄŸl?kl? buluyorsundur ama Yüce Tanr?m?z bu konuda ne uygun görürse onu yapacak. Liza Hamilton'la Yüce Tanr?m?z'?n hemen her konuda benzer görüÅŸleri olduÄŸu herkesin malumuydu.
~ John Steinbeck
Hay ciertos individuos que a veces, sin merecerlo en absoluto, son elegidos de los dioses. Lo obtienen todo sin el menor esfuerzo
~ John Steinbeck
No hay espíritu más desprendido en el mundo que el de un pobre a quien de pronto favorece la fortuna.
~ John Steinbeck
For I truly believe that people call their lives to them the way you'd whistle up a dog. I seem to thrive in small frustrations and make them up when I don't have them. This is not abnormal. In fact it is very supernormal.
~ John Steinbeck
And all of them were caught in something larger than themselves.
~ John Steinbeck
Some people exude their futures, good or bad.
~ Unknown
Perhaps we meet our heaven at the start and not the end of life.
~ John Updike
Walking toward the light. None of us lives in the light; we can only walk toward it, with the eyes and legs God has given us.
~ John Updike
Yes, well, years. Some die young; some are born old.
~ John Updike
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~ John Updike
The simplicity. Getting rid of something by giving it to itself. God Himself folded into the tiny adamant structure, Self-destined to a succession of explosions, the great slow gathering out of water and air and silicon: this is felt without words in the turn of the round hoe-handle in his palms. Now
~ John Updike
Fate has al­ways been a po­tent force in Rus­sia, where, for gen­er­ations, cit­izens have had lit­tle con­trol over their own des­tinies. Fate can be a bitch, but, as Za­it­sev, Dvornik, and Onofre­cuk had dis­cov­ered, it can al­so be a tiger.
~ John Vaillant
La vida es aquello que te ocurre mientras tú te empeñas en hacer otros planes.
~ Unknown
I believe that things are directed in some sort of way. I'm not exactly sure how. I also believe that things turn out best for those who make the best of the way things turn out.
~ John Wooden
Let the Church work out its own destiny, Miss McGee. Love it, be faithful, but don't let yourself be thrown off balance at every twist and turn
~ Unknown