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Quotes About Destiny

Luck's always to blame.
~ Jean de La Fontaine
Le vent déracina celui de qui le ciel était voisin et dont les pieds touchaient à l'empire des mots.
~ Jean de La Fontaine
Deznod?mintele cad ca tr?snetul. Nu cele ale istoriei, care nu vin niciodat?. Ci cele ale vie?ii, care vin foarte repede.
~ Jean d'Ormesson
Cu mult mai mult decât ideile, ale c?ror combina?ii ?i sisteme se constituie prea adesea într-un echilibru instabil ?i ne transform? într-o clip?, circumspan?ele ?i temperamentele, care reprezint? ceva mai superficial ?i în acela?i timp mai profund, sunt cele care decid destinul oamenilor.
~ Jean d'Ormesson
Po?i oare s? te sustragi timpului t?u? Po?i s? fii superior sau inferior, po?i s? lup?i împotriva lui cum încetasem noi s? o facem: pân? la urm? el te prinde îns?, ?i te înseamn? cu pecetea lui.
~ Jean d'Ormesson
fiecare ?tie în prezent c? nu suntem aproape nimic altceva decât rodul circumstan?elor în care ne zbatem ?i care ne alc?tuiesc între hazard ?i necesitate.
~ Jean d'Ormesson
Carpe Diam forever after.
~ Jean Ferris
If I can not have the most brilliant destiny, I want the most wretched, not for the purpose of a sterile solitude, but in order to achieve something new with such rare matter.
~ Jean Genet
It pleased Culafroy that the nobility belonged to Ernestine rather than to himself, and in this trait we may already see a sign of his destiny. To be able to approach her, to enjoy her intimacy, her special favors, was agreeable to him, just as many persons are more pleased to be the favorite of a prince than the prince himself, or a priest of a god than the god, this way they can receive Grace.
~ Jean Genet
Hij wilde snel bereiken wat voor hem weggelegd was, zodat de dood hem kon meenemen zonder dat hij ergens spijt van had.
~ Jean Genet
When we are born, we cry that we are come To this great stage of fools. He
~ Jean Hegland
I don't know, Jondalar. Maybe you haven't found the right woman. Maybe the Mother has someone special for you. She doesn't make many like you. You are really more than most women could bear. If all your love were concentrated on one, it could overwhelm her, if she wasn't one to whom the Mother gave equal gifts.
~ Jean M. Auel
It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.
~ Jean Nidetch
It is choice--not chance--that determines your destiny.
~ Jean Nidetch
A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.
~ Jean Racine
Have all beautiful things sad destinies?
~ Jean Rhys
I met a woman— Much that I am I owe to her, For she was going where I was going
~ Jean Toomer
If you have the spirit in you, then you must go where it takes you
~ Jean Ure
Luck comes and goes; you have to seize it. Bad luck comes and goes; it must be overcome. But I will never, never sit at the side of the road showing my wounds and shouting, 'It's destiny'!
~ Jean Van Hamme
Whatever sky's above me, I've a heart for any fate.
~ Jean Webster
This is your heart. Keep it locked until the chap turns up who has the key.
~ Jean Webster
Yet the Visigoths' intangible legacy was far more important: they left behind a powerful myth of a Golden Age of Christian rule that ended when most of Spain became part of the Muslim world. This myth would shape the destiny of Spain and the Spanish language.
~ Jean-Benoît Nadeau
Les événements disposent de nous pour presque tout. Les rares fois où il nous revient de décider librement, nous n'avons pas le droit de vouloir autre chose que le bonheur.
~ Jean-Christophe Rufin
Only one out of three will make it to your destination alive. Will it be you?" He points at a man in his fifties with a neatly trimmed beard and a fresh T-shirt.
~ Jeanine Cummins