Quotes About Destiny

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

Some have greatness thrust upon them, but not lately.

I got thrust into some great things when I was really young.

Celebrities choose fame. Royals have it thrust on them.

We're all born into this world. Some are placed gently, others thrust into it, and still others abandoned.

Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.

I am confident I will set foot again in Tibet in my lifetime.

One October day in 1976, a Cuban airliner exploded over the Caribbean and crashed, killing all 73 people aboard. There should have been 74. I had a ticket on that flight, but changed my reservation at the last moment and flew to Havana on an earlier plane.

The good fortune of America is closely tied to the good fortune of all humanity.

Dr. King said, 'We are all tied together in a garment of mutual destiny.' Which says to me no matter how well I may be doing in Hollywood, if a young brother or sister in Louisiana, the South Bronx, the South Side of Chicago, South Central Los Angeles - is not doing well, then I'm not doing very well.

how to handle it. The yogic system gives no commandments whatsoever. It leaves you free to choose whether you want to generate positive karma for the future, distance yourself from your karmic package, or dissolve it altogether.

Whenever we have had to do something about our lives, we have taken it into our hands. Whenever it comes to other people's misfortunes, we have a word to explain it: destiny.

What is karma? Literally, the word means action.

Admonished for his lack of familiarity with twentieth century science, Sundar Singh said, 'What is science?' 'Natural selection and survival of the fittest,' he was told. 'Ah,' Sundar Singh replied, 'but I am more interested in divine selection and the survival of the unfit.

A priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.

The world's thy ship and not thy home.

is biology destiny? And the answer is yes, sometimes it is. Women who have the fewest choices of all exercise their right to abortion the most.

Every man is the architect of his own fortune.

Your one life is a great tale, one facet of God's continuing narrative within the world.

If things were different, if there were no revolution, no war, no threads of light, if he were rich, would he go back to London with her and ask for her hand in marriage? He smiled, for the answer was simple. Yes, yes, he would.

You are my beginning; you will be my end; in the middle lies our future.

Mijn vroegste herinneringen zijn allemaal gelukkige. Dat was voordat ik erachter kwam dat het mijn lot was om in een kast opgesloten te worden om daar te sterven.

I believed I owned the sky without realising that I'm destined to fall to the ground.

[H]e had a strange sense of being haunted, a feeling that the shades of his imagination were stepping out into the real world, that destiny was acquiring the slow, fatal logic of a dream. 'Now I know what a ghost is,' he thought. 'Unfinished business, that's what.'