Quotes About Destiny

Harry Dresden. Saving the world, one act of random destruction at a time.

I began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.

But if I could go back in time, I wouldn't do a single thing differently. What if all those things I did were the things that got me here?

When God decides its time, I guess he'll come for us.

We do things when it is our time to do them. They do not occur to us until it is time; they cannot be resisted, once their time has come. It's a question of time, not motive.

Our last deed, like the young of the land crab, wends its way to the sea of cause and effect as soon as born, and makes a drop there to eternity.

Everything begins and ends at exactly the right time and place.

How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?

You can, when Time is ripe, swope to your feet - at your full height - at a single gesture. Ready to go where? Why... Wherever God motions.

Many times the reading of a book has made the future of a man.

The fate of the universe is a decision yet to be made, one which we will intelligently consider when the time is right.

A clerk and a ladder and warm golden light, and then: the right book exactly, at exactly the right time.

Things do tend to come around when the time is right though.

This is what I believe: That we are not pushed from behind by the casual unfolding of historical necessity, but that we are in the grip of an attractor of some sort, which lies ahead of us in time.

There is something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty.

We don't have to push each other out of the way, because the universe will push us out of the way, or push us towards our goals when it's time.

I can't tell one from the other:I find you or you find me?There was a time before we were born If someone asks, this is where I'll be.

Yes, there's a luck in most things; and in none more than being born at the right time.

There are, I dare say, many lovers who would never have been drawn to each other had they met for the first time, as, say, they met the second time.

Let the Dragon ride again on the winds of time.

Auspicious coincidence is the right thing happening at the right time.

Through the grace of the Almighty Power, it is sure to manifest itself in time.

To quote a famous philosopher revered in my time 'But this is no different from regular life. When have you ever known what's going to happen in the future?' Wait a minute, Jonah thought. I said that. Back at Westminster, with Katherine. Does that mean I'm going to be a famous philosopher in the future? Does that mean I'm going to be revered? There wasn't time to ask.

Margaret Peterson Haddix