Quotes About Destiny

He was the measure of the failure of his father's body, and also perhaps a portending of the failure of his own.~

Man is born to trouble as the sparks fly upward.

I suspect Scottishness is another name for predestination. It explains everything, more or less.

The parents of these young soldiers would come to me and ask how the Lord could allow such a thing. I felt like asking them what the Lord would have to do to tell us He didn't allow something. But instead I would comfort them by saying we would never know what their young men had been spared. Most of them took me to mean they were spare the trenches and the mustard gas, but what I really meant was that they were spared the act of killing.

Il arrive qu'on fasse des pieds et des mains pour atteindre un objectif, mais il vous échappe parce que les lois cosmiques suivent une autre voie.

Mnich do Mariny: - Wszystko b?dzie si? toczy?, bo i tak si? toczy. Przypomnij sobie histori? Buddy - otrzyma? o?wiecenie, ale dopiero wtedy, kiedy ca?kowicie si? podda?. Czasami robisz, co tylko mo?esz, ?eby osi?gn?? cel, ale nic z tego nie wychodzi, bo kosmos ma wobec ciebie inne plany.

You can't hide the thunderbolt. When it hits you, everybody can see it. Christ, man, don't be ashamed of it, some men pray for the thunderbolt. You're a very lucky fellow. - Calo

Every man has but one destiny

destiny had decided that he was to become a Don and had brought Fanucci to him to set him on his destined path.

a man has but one destiny

Strangers decide their lives.

As much as a man can guarantee anything against fate. Yes, I'm confident

las dos personas más influyentes en el destino de Guatemala y, en cierta forma, de toda Centroamérica en el siglo XX fueron Edward L. Bernays y Sam Zemurray

En memoria de los incontables hombres y mujeres de todos los credos, naciones y razas que cayeron víctimas de la creencia fascista y comunista en Las Leyes Inexorables del Destino Histórico»[51].

Maar tegelijk bedacht ik dat me in mijn leven al zoveel dingen waren overkomen dat ik diende te weten dat niets onmogelijk was, dat de meest bizarre en ongeloofwaardige coïncidenties en voorvallen zich konden voordoen als het meisje, dat nu mijn vrouw was, er iets mee te maken had.

Le raccontai tutta la mia vita, non quella passata ma quella che avrei vissuto in futuro.

Non è colpa della Francia se continuiamo a essere un paio di stranieri, caro. E' colpa nostra. Una vocazione, un destino. Come la nostra professione d'interpreti, un'altra maniera di essere sempre uno straniero, di stare senza stare, di essere ma non essere.

What I learned is the difference between of destiny and fate. We are all fated to die. Destiny is recognizing the radiance of the soul that, even when faced with human impossibility, loves all of life. Fate is the death we owe to Nature. Destiny is the life we own to soul.

But some things, no matter how unlikely, are just supposed to happen. You know what I mean. Some things just smack of the future and feel part of an overarching rightness.

A deus ex machina will never appear in real life so you best make other arrangements.

Most people ended up, after only a couple of months, far, far away from where they'd intended to go, stuck in some barbed underbrush of a quagmire when they'd meant to head straight to the ocean.

What, really, was the difference between something hounding you and something leading you somewhere?

The dark side of life has a way of finding us all anyway, so stop chasing it.

Is man's destiny determined by the vicissitudes of environment or free will? I argue that it is free will, because what we think, what we dwell upon in our heads, whether it be fears or dreams, has a direct effect upon the physical world. The more you think about your downfall, your ruin, the greater the likelihood that it will occur. And conversely, the more one thinks of victory, the more likely one will achieve it.