Quotes About Destiny

You always need a bit of fortune in life.

My foster parents were very religious. They told me that they had not decided to take me in, rather that it was God that had decided it for them.

If a franchise wants me, they'll take me.

You are free to choose what you want to make of your life. It's called free agency or free will, and it's your birthright.

You don't have free will when you have lung cancer.

I wonder whether being a scientist's daughter makes you so conflicted about free will and fate.

I have a friend who says that roles choose you at the time that you need them most, and you have to believe, as an actor, if you didn't get a part that you really, really wanted, and it went to someone else, it was because it was theirs to begin with.

Continuing the legacy of Elijah E. Cummings requires that we fulfill our destiny to fight for the world as it should be.

Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.

In this world of chance and change and mutability, the fulfillment of any resolve depends on the will of the Lord.

Men are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.

Zuchek, a patient, steel-nerved negotiator, utterly devoted to Russia's self-interest, vs. Hollenbach, whose once brilliant mind now was obsessed with fancied tormentors and played like a child's with the toy blocks of destiny.

Lo importante no es lo que nos hace el destino, sino lo que nosotros hacemos de él.

YOUR WORD IS YOUR WAND. THE WORDS YOU SPEAK CREATE YOUR OWN DESTINY

Edward ought, I suppose, to have gone to the Transvaal. It would have done him a great deal of good to get killed.

The gods to each ascribe a differing lot: Some enter at the portal. Some do not!

You cannot know where your people are going if you don't know where your people have been.

Their eyes met with a singular directness of gaze. Between them a spark passed which was not afterwards to be extinguished, though neither of them knew the moment of its kindling...

It's so different to be a sparrow. But nobody asked this rat if he wanted to be a rat when he was made. Nobody said, 'Wouldn't you rather be a sparrow?

Things happen to people by accident

You never know, of course, when you write a book what its fate will be. Sink out of sight, soar to the sun–who knows. I love this quote from Frances Mayes. It pretty much sums up the Great Unknown of book writing.

Southerners have a gene, as yet undetected in the DNA spirals, that causes them to believe that place is fate. Where you are is who you are. The further inside you the place moves, the more your identity is intertwined with it. Never casual, the choice of place is the choice of something you crave.

Né e pazzi né e savi non possono finalmente resistere a quello che ha a essere: però io non lessi mai cosa che mi paressi meglio detta che quella che disse colui: Ducunt volentes fata, nolentes trahunt.

Laura, illustrious through her own virtues, and long famed through my verses, first appeared to my eyes in my youth, in the year of our Lord 1327, on the sixth day of April, in the church of St. Clare in Avignon, at matins; and in the same city, also on the sixth day of April, at the same first hour, but in the year 1348, the light of her life was withdrawn from the light of day, while I, as it chanced, was in Verona, unaware of my fate...