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Quotes About Destiny

There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
~ Seneca the Younger
In the end, human history is made up of all our decisions.
~ David Miliband
Our history is not our destiny.
~ Alan Cohen
We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans.
~ Mangosuthu Buthelezi
As a Christian I take it for granted that human history will some day end; and I am offering Omniscience no advice as to the best date for that consummation.
~ C. S. Lewis
I got a call to come in and meet Fox, and the rest is history.
~ Paula Abdul
The tears of God are the meaning of history
~ Nicholas Wolterstorff
Not only is the destiny of the individual bound up with the entire Church; it is responsible for helping to sanctify the entire world of nature and history.
~ Huston Smith
But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny.
~ Paul Ricoeur
I have not much interest in anyone's personal history after the tenth year, not even my own. Whatever one was going to be was all prepared before that.
~ Katherine Anne Porter
When history calls, history calls.
~ Olympia Snowe
The course of history as a whole is no object of experience; history has no eidos, because the course of history extends into the unknown future.
~ Eric Voegelin
History works itself out by an inevitable internal logic.
~ Terry Eagleton
The past is history, the future's a mystery.
~ James Toback
Without history we are the prisoners of the accident of where and when we were born.
~ Donald Kagan
History takes place between the Fall and the Apocalypse, with a narrow escape route called Salvation.
~ Mason Cooley
History is but the unrolled scroll of prophecy.
~ James A. Garfield
We are the prisoners of history. Or are we?
~ Robert Penn Warren
God did not make a mistake when He chose you to bear Christ's name at this hinge of history.
~ David Shibley
We have history, you and I. You just don't know it yet.
~ Sarah Addison Allen
If every man could act as he chose, the whole of history would be a tissue of disconnected accidents.
~ Leo Tolstoy
History is not an endless succession of meaningless circles but a directed movement toward a great event.
~ Max Lucado
I am not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star.
~ Sojourner Truth
Everything that happens is God's will. When you realize that, you're home free.
~ Byron Katie