Quotes About Destiny

Nothing is certain, ma petite, not even death. - Jean-Claude

If you are following Deity's plan for you, it isn't always the easy path; sometimes it's the hard one. So why follow? Because to do any less is to betray your own abilities and gifts, and the faith that Deity has in you. Who would do that willingly?

You're like great Shakespearean tragedy.

I want you to believe that your death will be for a great purpose. Sorry, not buying swampland today.

If you are following Deity's plan for you, it isn't always the easy path; sometimes it's the hard one. So why follow? Because to do any less is to betray your own abilities and gifts, and the faith that Deity has in you. Who would do that willingly?

It wasn't the big decisions that set the course of one's life; it was the slow accretion of all the little ones.

Her eyes were as hard and bright as stars. Not the pretty sort that poets mooned about, but the kind that made men's destinies. The Orchid Affair

Her eyes were as hard and bright as stars. Not the pretty sort that poets mooned about, but the kind that made men's destinies.

I don't believe anything's really inevitable until it happens. We just call it inevitable to make ourselves feel better about it, to excuse ourselves for not having done anything.

Laurence Sterne

The light beyond my eyes flashflashflashes with a hundred futures for me. Doctor. Ship's captain. Forest ranger. Librarian. Beloved of that man or that women or those children or those people who voted for me or who painted my picture. Poet. Acrobat. Engineer. Friend. Guardian. Avenging whirlwind. A million futures--not all pretty, not all long, but all of them mine. I do have a choice - p. 271

This is not our fight', the old man said. 'British or American, that is not the choice. You must choose your own side, find your road through the valley of darkness that will lead you to the river Jordan. . . Look hard for your river Jordan, my child. You'll find it.

I am an iceberg drifting towards the edge of the map

One must never disregard a message from the universe.

I have never found 'luck' a dependable companion

one might say that my entire life has been a wager against chance—

The moving finger writes, and having writ Moves on. Nor all your piety and wit Can call it back to cancel half a line Nor all your tears wash out a word of it.

They've transformed the weather into some sort of celestial crap game.

Tomorrow's always there, just over the horizon. Until the tomorrows run out.

The world's a bastard. Life just happens to people.

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as do the ordinary people, but to fulfill it in its true potential - the imagination.

Some characters in the world are marked down for self-destruction, and to these no amount of rational argument can appeal.

The seeds of future events are carried within ourselves. They are implicit in us and unfold according to the laws of their own nature

Death and life are both simply the hazards of a chance which cannot be averted