Quotes About Destiny

Who knows what brings fortune, since we cannot see the end?

The years are going by us like huge birds, whom Doom and Destiny and the schemes of God have frightened up out of some old gray marsh.

Rodriguez seldom concerned himself with the past, holding that the future is all we can order the scheme of. And maybe even here he was wrong.

All that is is so because it was to be. Rail not, therefore, against what is, for it was all to be.

That bitch fate has a cruel sense of humor.

A match made in heaven - where do you get those? That's what I want to know!

I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.

I would say to the priest that God made me as I am, that I had no choice, that He must have made me like this for a purpose, that He knows the ultimate reasons for all things and that therefore it must be all to the good that I am as I am, even if we cannot know what that good is. I can say to the priest that if God is the reason for all things, then God is to blame and I should not be condemned.

If you have been embroiled in a war in which you confidently expected to die, what were you supposed to do with so much life unexpectedly left over? There were so many ways of passing the peace, and you would never know what they would have been like, those roads not taken.

has sometimes occurred to me that God only bestows extreme beauty upon those to whom He wishes to bring misfortune.

Life is nothing if not a random motion of coincidences and quirks of chance; it never goes as planned or as foretold; frequently one gains happiness from being obliged to follow an unchosen path or misery from following a chosen one.

Yol Bolsun (May there be a road) [Louis L'Amour}

That was always the trouble…everything a man wanted to do lay ahead of him.

It is my privilege. It is so written.

Luck comes to a man who puts himself in the way of it. You

Men may plan, they may dream and struggle, but the buzzard has only to wait, for all things come to him in the end.

Up to a point a man's life is shaped by environment, heredity, and movements and changes in the world about him; then there comes a time when it lies within his grasp to shape the clay of his life into the sort of thing he wishes to be. Only the weak blame parents, their race, their times, lack of good fortune, or the quirks of fate. Everyone has it within his power to say, this I am today, that I shall be tomorrow.

He should have been drowned at birth.

Kill him? Would that be it? No man knew better than he the tricks that Destiny plays on a man, or how often the right man dies at the wrong time and place. A man never wore a gun without inviting trouble, he never stepped into a street and began the gunman's walk without the full knowledge that he might be a shade too slow, that some small thing might disturb him just long enough!

Seems if the Lord really wants a man it doesn't need all that fuss to get him worked up to it. If a man isn't ready for the Lord, then the Lord isn't ready for him, and it's a straight-forward proposition between man and God without any wringing of the hands or hell-fire shouting.

Man was born to die. It is our promise at birth.

if his destiny was to die I would not stand in his way.

There is no good time in which to die

Seems to me we work out our destinies subject to a lot of accident, incident, and whim.