Quotes About Destiny

Luthiel: I cannot change what will happen. I can only change how I act in the face of it.

Othalas: Chosen don't choose themselves!

It turns out that what makes history come out in triumph is some dumb sheep that couldn't find its way home.

Si se encuentra en el exterior de su casa y al aire libre, no puede hacer nada salvo aceptar su destino —anunciaba el artículo—. Si está en su casa, mire por las ventanas para ver si caen pájaros de los árboles, gatos y perros, personas que caen al suelo y se ahogan, coches que chocan y pánico general, se trata de todos los signos de que se ha producido un ataque con gas.

That day she put our heads together,Fate had her imagination about her,Your head so much concerned with outer,Mine with inner, weather.

Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb.

while life has but one entrance, it has exits innumerable, and as I choose the house in which I live, the ship in which I will sail, so will I choose the time and manner of my death.

Who was more conscious than the soldier of capricious fortune, of the random roll of the dice?

Nam in omni adversitate fortunae infelicissimum est genus infortunii, fuisse felicem. For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy. Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiae

Don't turn your back, don't show your profile, You'll never know when it's your turn to go.

They were separated by infinite disparities, by the lotteries of birth and chance, by faults of judgment and lucky breaks.

He had slept badly. Nillness, that was where Luna Landry had gone, and where all of them, he and Rochelle included, were headed. Sometimes illness turned slowly to nillness, as was happening to Bristow's mother… sometimes nillness rose to meet you out of nowhere, like a concrete road slamming your skull apart.

Nillness, that was where Lula Landry had gone, and where all of them, he and Rochelle included, were headed. Sometimes illness turned slowly to nillness, as was happening to Bristow's mother…sometimes nillness rose to meet you out of nowhere, like a concrete road slamming your skull apart.

We are creating at this moment what our tomorrow will be

He walked home, completely at peace. He knew now he would go on doing the things he was doing -- going to work, buying up land he didn't understand, seeing Sylvan Glass for reasons he couldn't help. But he also knew it would all be fine, whatever happened. He knew it was the right thing to do. He was in the place he was meant to be. He was home, finally, at the happy and complete end of his long and troubled road. He was home.

Such things happen.

Civilization was a relentless war that man was doomed to lose eventually.

You pass people on the street, some are for you, some are not.

It would drive a man mad to apprehend the whole tragedy, to know every effect and consequence, to know the names of every good man and woman, every genius and every saint, who was never born because their lineage petered out there on that rise at Franklin.

Outside major darkness where the circle is complete there's no fear that lovers born will ever fail to meet

We were each born on just the right day on His calendar, and we will finish our earthly tasks at just the right moment in His will.

I believe God's guidance is detailed, daily, personal, unfailing, and preplanned, as Psalm 139:16 says: "All my days were written in Your book and planned before a single one of them began." If He has planned all my days, I should acknowledge Him in all my ways.

You have to play the cards life deals you. You can't change it and you can't run away from it.

Sad mi je jasno da sam se ve? dugo kretao prema Tebi i Ti prema meni. Premda ni jedno od nas nije bilo svesno postojanja drugoga pre nego smo se upoznali. Za sve vreme u našoj je nesvesnosti radosno lutala neka slepa izvesnost koja je garantovala da ?emo se sresti. Poput dveju usamljenih ptica što svoj put preko golemih prerija pronalaze pomo?u nebeskih znakova, tako smo se i mi sav svoj život kretali jedno prema drugom