Quotes About Destiny

Destiny is for the weak; strong men build their own lives.

Chris says his father was born on the corner of straight and narrow...

Death comes walking across the countryside swinging that scythe, and he might get you or he might not.

What's the Future? It's a blank sheet of paper, and we draw lines on it, but sometimes our hand is held, and the lines we draw aren't the lines we wanted.

And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.

I DON'T BELIEVE IN DESTINY. WE ARE NOT BORN TO BECOME ONE THING OR ANOTHER, left to follow helplessly a course that was charted for us by some unseen hand, a mysterious alignment of the stars that pulls us in a certain direction, bestowing happiness on some and misfortune on others.

Demographics aren't destiny. Our culture isn't the work of one race or religion. To suggest otherwise is to contradict our ideals and to doubt their power.

But we just cannot overlook the prophecy of Ezekiel wherein he prophesies that God said, "Even I will go and search for them

She waved good-bye and hurried down the street towards her family's house, thinking again that some nights had good karma and some nights were cursed, and for a few moments, tonight had seemed like the former, but it had ended up the latter.

This island chooses people, Aunt Greta said. It chose Bo and me, and I think it's chosen you as well.

You just didn't know what life was going to hand you. You didn't know what love you would find, what love would be snatched away.

We didn't choose love; it chose us, right or wrong—and realizing this, for Brenda, was a kind of answered prayer. Love was all that mattered.

The most underrated force at work in the universe is that of coincidence. And yet who among us hasn't been at its mercy?

The most underrated force at work in the universe is that of coincidence.

hundred years. The end of a place Shan had come

Nicht der Weg war das Ziel. Das Ziel hatte einen Weg, und den musste man irgendwann einschlagen.

Everything in this life has a purpose, there are no mistakes, no coincidences.

Maybe Nils was right and it was meant to be like this. Maybe you had to go through just so much, and then you reached the place where you were supposed to be.

But really, there are no coincidences. Coincidences are just other people's choices, plans you don't know about.

You are responsible for the way your life turns out, not chance, not someone else.

"Guess now who holds thee?"—"Death," I said. But thereThe silver answer rang—"Not Death, but Love."

Unlike we are, unlike, O princely Heart! Unlike our uses and our destinies... Thou, bethink thee, art A guest for queens to social pageantries, With gages from a hundred brighter eyes Than tears even can make mine... What hast though to do With looking from the lattice-lights at me, A poor, tired, wandering singer...

Why shouldn't Miss Martineau's apocalyptic housemaid tell us whether Flush has a soul, and what is its 'future destination'? As to the fact of his soul, I have long had a strong opinion on it. The 'grand peut-être,' to which 'without revelation' the human argument is reduced, covers dog-nature with the sweep of its fringes.

We cannot choose where we come from, but we can choose where we are going, and we can choose the routes we're willing to take to try to get there.