Quotes About Destiny

Life will deal me many different hands, some good, some bad (maybe they've already been dealt), but from here on in, I'll be turning my own cards. —Alton Richard

When the shoes first fell from the sky,he remembered thinking that destiny had struck him. Now he thought so again. It was more than a coincidence. It had to be destiny.

I'm not exactly the luckiest guy in the world.

I only mean to say that I have a feeling that it never was intended I should live long. I'm not like the rest of you.

swept into the giddy vortex which keeps so many young people revolving aimlessly, till they go down or are cast upon the shore, wrecks of what they might have been

Our burdens are here, our road is before us

You have so many extraordinary gifts; how can you expect to lead an ordinary life? You're ready to go out and – and find a good use for your talent.

Mark my words, Jo, you'll go next.

Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow.

God has ordered it all for the best...

Di wrestled with her knitting as if it were Fate, and she were paying off the grudge she owed

You have so many extraordinary gifts; how can you expect to lead and ordinary life?

I think you will find someone and love them and you will live and die for them because that is your way and you will. And I'll watch…

Here I am Where I ought to be

The Creator made us for each other. Me here. Zelia there. Space was put between us by human error. But our hearts listened to divine will.

Funny how often the Will of God puts a dollar in a pocket, said Dr. Ames.

For what is a man, what are we all, but bits of time caught for a moment in a tangle of blood, bones, skin, and brain? She was time. Mauser was time. I am a sorry bit of time myself. We are time's containers. Time pours into us and then pours out again. In between the two pourings we live our destiny.

All on this side [of] the Mississippi must be ours, including both Floridas," he had already argued to McHenry in early 1798.

She did have one other fear, though: missing the call of God.

There's somethin I learned when I was homeless: Our limitation is God's opportunity. When you get all the way to the end of your rope and there ain't nothin you can do, that's when God takes over. I remember one time I was hunkered down in the hobo jungle with some folks. We was talkin 'bout life, and this fella was talkin, said, 'People think they're in control, but they ain't. The truth is, that which must befall thee must befall thee. And that which must pass the by must pass thee by.

The Word says God put ever star in the heavens and even give ever one of em a name. If one of em was gon' fall out the sky, that was up to Him, too. Maybe we can't see where it's gon' wind up, be He can.

He'd felt incredibly lucky they'd found one another, though Serena had already told him their meeting wasn't mere good fortune but inevitability.

Proverbs 16:9: "A man's heart deviseth his way; but the Lord directs his steps.

You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children's children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done.