Quotes About Destiny

Everything happens for a reason, and part of that beauty of life is that we're not allowed to know those reasons for certain.

Then he [The Star Child] waited, marshaling his thoughts and brooding over his still untested powers. For though he was master of the world, he was not quite sure what to do next. But he would think of something.

It is a bitter thought, but you must face it. The planets you may one day possess. But the stars are not for man.

Unlike the animals, who knew only the present, Man had acquired a past; and he was beginning to grope toward a future.

A hundred failures would not matter, when one single success could change the destiny of the world.

All that had gone before was not a thousandth of what was yet to come; the story of this star had barely begun.

Faith in one's own destiny was among the most valuable of the gifts which the gods could bestow upon a man

Meteorites don't fall on the Earth. They fall on the Sun and the Earth gets in the way." - John W. Campbell

there were some who still found time to repeat an ancient and never-answered question: "Where do we go from here?

It had to happen to someone. There is nothing exceptional about you, any more than there is about the first neutron that starts the chain reaction in an atomic bomb. It simply happens to be the first. Any other neutron would have served

Yet among all the distractions and diversions of a planet which now seemed well on the way to becoming one vast playground, there were some who still found time to repeat an ancient and never-answered question: "Where do we go from here?

Rolf van der Berg was the right man, in the right place, at the right time; no other combination would have worked. Which, of course, is how much of history is made.

A hundred failures would not matter, when a single success could change the destiny of the world.

it would be ready again to lift another companion toward the shining silence which it could never reach.

The most trifling events can, in a mere moment of time, totally change the course of a man's life. And often it is not possible, even at the end, to decide whether the change was for better or for worse.

He was not the first man, Cliff Leyland told himself bitterly, to know the exact second and the precise manner of his death.

parecía ahora desoladoramente primitiva ante los poderes que le estaban llevando a un inimaginable sino.

A lot happens when the prince and princess live happily ever after--the king, his father, dies, so he is now ruler and she his queen, they have their children, she conducts discreet affairs with Sir Lancelot, there are border uprisings...but still the story ended when the love toward which their destinies drove them came to mutual consciousness when they knew, each knowing the other knew, that they were meant for each other.

The ways of fate are indeed hard to understand. If there is not some compensation hereafter, then the world is a cruel jest.

What object is served by this circle of misery and violence and fear? It must tend to some end, or else our universe is ruled by chance, which is unthinkable. But what end? There is the great standing perennial problem to which human reason is as far from an answer as ever.

When one tries to rise above Nature one is liable to fall below it. The highest type of man may revert to the animal if he leaves the straight road of destiny.

Schade dass die Natur nur einen Mensch aus Dir schuf, Denn zum wuerdigen Mann war und zum Schelmen der Stoff.

It's true that you set us on the right track; but you'll own now that it was more by good luck than good guidance.

Schade dass die Natur nur einen Mensch aus dir schuf, Denn zum wurdigen Mann war und zum Schelmen der Stoff.