Quotes About Destiny

Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.

Evil wishes, like chickens, come home to roost.

Forbear harping on what was of yore, for it is the common lot of mortals to sustain the ups and downs of fortune.

Every one is more or less master of his own fate.

But I believe in luck - in destiny, if you will. It is your destiny to stand beside me and prevent me from committing the unforgivable error." "What do you call the unforgivable error?" "Overlooking the obvious.!

Really, my friend! But I will not sit back and say 'le bon Dieu has arranged everything, I will not interfere.' Because I am convinced that le bon Dieu created Hercule Poirot for the express purpose of interfering. It is my métier.

Is death the greatest evil that can happen to anyone?

A brave new world. There isn't anything really like that, is there?" "You don't believe in it?" "Do you?" "There is always a brave new world," said Poirot, "but only, you know, for very special people. The lucky ones. The ones who carry the making of that world within themselves.

I had the firm conviction that, if I went about looking for adventure, adventure would meet me halfway. It is a theory of mine that one always gets what one wants.

In fact the marriage has been arranged by heaven and Hercule Poirot. All I have to do is to compound a felony.

Born poor doesn't mean you've got to stay poor. Money's queer. It goes where it's wanted.

In my opinion half the people who spend their lives avoiding being run over by buses had much better be run over and put safely out of the way. They're no good.

I said, life will not pass her by. Strange and exciting events will surround her. You've only got to look at her to know it.

The trouble in this life is that you never really know where you're going. ~Andy Peters

It wasn't what you were born to, and no good comes from getting out of your station in life.

One doesn't want to die young. Sometimes one has to.

Everyone must die! That is so, is it not? If it comes quickly from the sky—bouff—like that, it is as well as any other way. One is alive for a time—yes, and then one is dead. That is what happens in this world.

it is the future that causes one inquietude.

The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceeding small—

Wwhat the hell? Weve all got to die sometime!

Do you remember these words: 'What Lamp has Destiny to guide Her little Children stumbling in the Dark? "A Blind Understanding," Heaven replied. 'Geoffrey has that—a blind understanding. All children possess it. It is only as we grow older that we lose it, that we cast it away from us. Sometimes, when we are quite old, a faint gleam comes back to us, but the Lamp burns brightest in childhood.

Quién puede afirmar que aquel niño no podría haberse convertido en un gran músico o en el descubridor de la vacuna contra el cáncer? O algo menos melodramático: podría convertirse en una persona feliz y normal...

There is always a brave new world," said Poirot, "but only, you know, for very special people. The lucky ones. The ones who carry the

Hasta el propio Romeo, como sabes, tuvo su Rosalinda antes de que le sorbiera el seso Julieta.