Quotes About Destiny

When I'm writing, I know I'm doing the thing I was born to do.

Rats live on no evil star

Death, with one-eyed jack in his hand, makes a promise to the thirteenth child.

It was ordained. Just as the fates deal out the plague with a tarot card. Just as the Supreme Being drills holes in our skulls to let the Boston Symphony through.

I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get

But if you were Charlotte, and you had been feeling that life was some cosmic joke that had no punchline, and in the space of a moment you had gone from being Charlotte-without-a-kitten to being Charlotte-with-a-kitten, you too would have found it nothing short of remarkable.

The apprentice's name was Wolf, because sometimes the universe is an unsubtle place.

I don't know what ails Adelaide Addison. Isola says she is a blight because she likes being a blight— it gives her a sense of destiny.

Karma brings us ever back to rebirth, binds us to the wheel of births and deaths. Good Karma drags us back as relentlessly as bad, and the chain which is wrought out of our virtues holds as firmly and as closely as that forged from our vices.

Left to our own devices, we will notice some of the bad luck but overlook most of the dumb luck.

The way our lives turn out is the result of two things: the influence of skill and the influence of luck.

Because there are only two things that determine how your life turns out: luck and the quality of your decisions. You have control over only one of those two things.

The quality of our lives is the sum of decision quality plus luck.

there are only two things that determine how your life turns out: luck and the quality of your decisions. You have control over only one of those two things.

there are exactly two things that determine how our lives turn out: the quality of our decisions and luck.

Gone with the Wind" are just as decisive as the Oedipus complex

Il y avait dans cette coïncidence surprenante, quasi inouïe, le signe d'une rencontre mystérieuse et d'une histoire qu'il fallait vivre.

L'avenir est trop immense pour qu'elle l'imagine, il arrivera, c'est tout

The world has its way with us long before we're born.

Someday, someone will walk into your life and make you realize why it never worked out with anyone else.

Meeting you was fate, becoming your friend was a choice, but falling in love with you was beyond my control.

I've been able to chart out my professional life. But I can never chart out my personal one.

It is completely a God thing that I am here today because for the first 17 years of my life, I never thought I would ever do music professionally. I'd always liked what my dad did, but I never thought that I wanted to do it, just to be different.

I wanted to be a political science professor and go to school in Boston. I never wanted to be a big, famous movie star and TV star. It kind of found me.